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Live Classical Piano Concert this Wednesday Nov. 23rd at 2030 hrs Japanese pianist Emi Munakata plays Franz Liszt – Piano Salon Christophori

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Natalia Prischepienko takes a bow after last Wednesday

 

Dear Friends of the Piano Salon recitals,

It is with the greatest pleasure that I send out this invitation for an exceptional and not-yet well known pianist.

Both technically and musically they will play the very demanding Liszt programs – so it promises to be two truely notworthy musical celebrations.

This coming Wednesday, the 23rd at 2030hrs a Japanese pianist Emi Munakata will give her [...] Continue Reading…

Concert Review – ‘clair-obscur’ at Watergate Club – Irritatingly banal & annoying Steve Reich composition cannot stop successfull evening – by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog music critic Mr Filip van der Plas

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Philip Glass - foto Wikipedia by Pasquale Salerno

Concert Review – ‘clair-obscur’ at Watergate Club – Irritatingly banal and Steve Reich composition cannot stop successful Concert!
‘clair-obscur’…………..are/ is………
Jan Schulte -Bunert / Soprano Sax
Maike Krullmann / Alt Sax
Christoph Enzel / Tenor Sax
Kathi Wagner / Bariton Sax
 
Every so often one goes to a concert and thinks – what am I doing here!?

So this evening when a fabulously talented saxophone quartet decided to play [...] Continue Reading…

JazzFest Berlin 2011 – Berlin Jazz Festival – 2nd to 6th November at ‘Haus der Berliner Festspiele’, ‘Quasimodo’ & ‘A-Trane’

Friday, November 4th, 2011
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Charles Lloyd Signing Autographs -photo from Wikipedia by Luke Wroblewski
The traditional ‘Berlin Jazz Festival’ officially known as ‘JazzFest Berlin 2011‘ opened last Wednesday evening.

All told a program of 27 events and nearly 200 jazz-musicians, await visitors of this annual Berlin Festival.

This year circa 9,000 guests are expected in three different venues – the theme of this year’s festival is jazz and musicians [...] Continue Reading…

Live Jazz in Berlin this coming Tuesday 2030 hrs – Martin Krümmling Trio – This Friday 14th October 2030hrs Li-Chun Su plays Beethoven – Monday October 17th, Julien Quentin + Sayaka Shoji with ‘Musica Litoralis’ Piano Salon Christophori

Monday, October 10th, 2011
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Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori!
Three  upcoming concerts for you – and a special concert on Monday the week after next.
CONCERT # 1
This coming Tuesday, at 20.30 hrs best known as a terrific drummer and founder of the group ‘Metrobop’ Martin Krümmling will present his own trio, nice, easy to listen better and catchy jazz can not be. An absolute must [...] Continue Reading…

Live Piano in Berlin this weekend – Kotaro Fukuma and Julien Quentin with Chamber group Musica Litoralis + violinist Névéol Mathieu- This Friday 7th & this Saturday 8th of October at 2030 hrs. – Piano Salon Christophori

Friday, October 7th, 2011
Franz Liszt - OTA-Berlin

 

Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori

 

In the next week I invite you to two concerts – though with a marginal difference – both with glorious international career musicians.

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This coming Friday at 20:30hrs, Kotaro Fukuma one of the most renowned young Japanese pianists of the present day, and also the most ‘European’ in his musical outlook the [...] Continue Reading…

Live Piano in Berlin – Olha Chipak and Oleksiy Kushnir -This Friday 29th & this Saturday 01st of October at 2030 hrs. – Piano Salon Christophori

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
 Mozart X4 - OTA-Berlin

THE TWO-PIANOS SERIES
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Olha Chipak und Oleksiy Kushnir
an zwei Flügeln

Eines der besten und preisgekröntesten Klavierduos der Welt
Werke von Brahms und Mozart

www.chipak-kushnir.de
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori – Please note a program change for next Friday:
In the coming week is one of the most beautiful and illustrious tradition continued in the salon concerts, the piano of the two [...] Continue Reading…

Live Piano in Berlin – Esther Birringer & Leonid Egorov – This evening Thursday 22nd and this Saturday 24th of September at 2030 hrs. – Piano Salon Christophori

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

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Esther Birringer
Beethoven: Sonate op.57 “Appassionata”

Chopin: Ballade Nr.3 op.47
Liszt: Dante-Sonate
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori-

This week, two very different piano recitals with lots of different colors will bring the piano to be heard in its full glory!

The famous young pianist Esther Birringer, winner of numerous piano competitions, is the first time one evening in the piano lounge this evening -Thursday, [...] Continue Reading…

Live Piano in Berlin – Hardy Rittner & Ulugbek Palvanov – This coming Thursday and Sunday 8th and 11th of September at 2030 hrs. – Piano Salon Christophori

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
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Concert #1 Thursday 8th September 2020 hrs -
Hardy Rittner
J.S. Bach – aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier
Schubert – B-Dur Sonate D 960
Liszt – 2.Ballade h-moll
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori,
This coming week we present some great creative ‘piano- power’ in two very diverse concerts. Both virtuosity and technique are interwoven [...] Continue Reading…

Live Piano in Berlin – Classical & Jazz – This coming Friday and Saturday 2nd and 3rd of September at 2030 hrs. – Piano Salon Christophori

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

 

Dear friends of  Piano Salon Christophori

I hereby invite you be two completely different concerts – one Classical as usual and one jazz which is less usual!

 

We heard the great young Dutch violinist Rosanne Phillipens give a brilliant concert at the Piano Salon in May with pianist Julien Quentin. See also – Delange Artists.

Many authoritative and even some authoritarian people are [...] Continue Reading…

Concert Review – Waldbühne, Berlin – Beethoven’s 9th Symphony live in Berlin forest – West-Eastern Divan Orchestra + Barenboim – by Filip van der Plas

Monday, August 22nd, 2011
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The good news is that it did not rain!

While many people looked up at various times thinking that they heard some nearing thunder – it was nothing more than aircraft taking off into some low-lying cloud cover at Tegel airport.

TheWaldbühne, Berlin or the out-door forest stage; in is one of the most beautiful open-air stages in Europe.

It lies at the western end [...] Continue Reading…

Outside in Berlin – Rain or Shine ‘Seefestspiele Berlin’…..here comes Mozart’s Magic Flute!!

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

 

 

 

 

‘Seefestspiele Berlin’ it is called.

 

On an outdoor stage, right next to the waterside of the famous Berliner Wannsee Lake, Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE will be performed starting this evening August 11th with intermittant productions up until the 28th.  http://www.seefestspiele-berlin.de/

 

The whole set will be produced on a pyramide-shaped structure as stage, and this will sit right-on the waterfront.

 

Katharina Thalbach is in overall command [...] Continue Reading…

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