Archive for the ‘Live Music’ Category
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

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…
Tags: Emi Munakata, Emi Munakata plays Franz Liszt, Japanese pianist Emi Munakata, Live Classical Piano Concert Berlin, ota-berlin piano salon, Piano Salon Christophori Berlin
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
![373px-Philip_Glass_018[1] Philip Glass - foto Wikipedia by Pasquale Salerno](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/373px-Philip_Glass_0181-150x150.jpg)
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…
Tags: 'clair-obscur', Christoph Enzel / Tenor Sax, complete piece of crap by Steve Reich, Concert Review - 'clair-obscur' at Watergate Club, György Ligeti, Irritatingly banal & annoying Steve Reich, Irritatingly banal Steve Reich composition, Jan Schulte-Bunert, JS Bach, Kathi Wagner / Bariton Sax, kultur radio RBB, Maike Krullmann - Altsaxophon, philip glass, Steve Reich waste of space, Watergate club berlin
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Friday, November 4th, 2011

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…
Tags: A-Trane Berlin, Adam Pieronczyk, Berlin Jazz Festival, Charles Lloyd, Charles Lloyd New Quartet, haus der berliner festspiele, jazz radio berlin, kultur radio RBB, Maria Farantouri, rbb / BR Jazznacht, Socratis Sinopoulos lyra
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Monday, October 10th, 2011

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…
Tags: beethoven Klavierkonzert No.1 C-Dur Op. 15, beethoven Klavierkonzert No.3 c-moll Op. 37, Julia Glaß, Li-Chun Su, Martin Krümmling Trio, MUSICA LITORALIS, Piano Salon Christophori, Sayaka Shoji
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Friday, October 7th, 2011

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…
Tags: Julien Quentin, Kotaro Fukuma, Musica Litoralis’, Névéol Mathieu, Piano Salon Christophori
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

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…
Tags: Mozart Sonata for 2 Pianos in C Major, Oleksiy Kushnir, Olha Chipak, Olha Chipak and Oleksiy Kushnir, Piano Salon Christophori
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Klavierabend
mit
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…
Tags: Beethoven sonata Op 109., Beethoven: Sonate op.57 "Appassionata", Brahms Ungarische Tänze, Esther Birringer, Leonid Egorov, Liszt La Campanella, Liszt Sonetto del Petrarca, Liszt: Dante-Sonate, Schumann »Liebeslied, Scriabin 2 Preludien op. 11
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
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…
Tags: Hardy Rittner, Liszt - 2.Ballade h-moll, Piano Salon Christophori, Schubert - B-Dur Sonate D 960, Ulugbek Palvanov
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011

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…
Tags: Barenboim and W.E.D. orchestra review, Bass René Pape, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Berlin + Beethovens 9th, concert review at Waldbune Berlin, Filip van der Plas, Mezzo Soprano Waltraud Meier, outdoor Beethovens 9th, review of West Eastern Divan Orchestra concert, review west eastern divan orchestra berlin, Soprano Anja Harteros, Tenor Peter Seiffert
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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…
Tags: 'Seefestspiele Berlin', 'West-Eastern Divan Orchestra', berlin's worst/wurst summer, Judith Kubitz, Katharina Thalbach, Mozart's Magic Flute
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