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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Chamber Music on a grande scale with……
Lea Birringer – Violin
Esther Birringer – Piano
Mozart: Sonate KV 305 A-Dur
Beethoven: Sonate op.12 Nr.3 Es-Dur
Hindemith: Sonate op.11 Nr.1 Es-Dur
Respighi: Sonate h-moll
Ottorino Respighi [1879 - 1936] – foto from Wikipedia
Lea will play a Violine made by Gianbattista Ceruti,
Cremona, circa 1800.
www.leabirringer.com
www.estherbirringer.com
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Friday, January 27th, 2012

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – baptized as – wait for it – Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born on the 27th January 1756 in Salzburg Austria – so Happy Birthday to Mister Mozart.
Below I have written a short account of Mozart’s journey late in his life to Berlin and follow that with the major part of a short biography of hime as [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 27th January Mozart's birthday, Happy Birthday Mozart, Mozart Berlin, mozart in Berlin, Mozart travels to Berlin, Mozart's Journey to Berlin by Maynard Solomon, The Journal of Musicology
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012

The Chopin Projekt with Eugene Mursky
Played on historical instruments made by Erard und Pleyel
* Rondo c-moll, op. 1 (1825)
* Sonate Nr. 1 c-moll, op. 4 (1828)
Allegro Maestoso
Menuetto
Larghetto
Finale – Presto
* Drei Nocturnes op. 9 (b-moll, Es-Dur, H-Dur) (1830 – 32)
* Vier Mazurken op. 6 (fis-moll, cis-moll, E-Dur, es-moll) (1830 – 32)
* Polonaise As-Dur (1821)
* Polonaise As-Dur, op. 53 “Heroique” [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
Georgy Gromov
Plays the Piano music of Ludwig van Beethovens
The Sonata for Cello and Piano number II
Cellist Nikolai Solonovich - First violinist of the ’Moscow Soloists’
and Pianist Georgy Gromov
Dear Friends of the salon concerts, I would like to invite for the next week to an extraordinary concert this coming Thursday January the 19th at 2030 hrs – Beethoven Live in [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
Isaac Albéniz i Pascual’
Piano evening with Michio Nishihara Toro
Schubert Impromptu Des D 899
Chopin Polonaise cis moll nr 1
Chopin Polonaise Nr 5 fis moll Op. 44
Beethoven Sonata “Appassionata”
Debussy L Isle Joyeuse
Debussy Reverie
Albeniz El Albaicin
Villa-Lobos Lenda do Caboclo
Liszt Soneto de Petrarca Nr 104
Liszt Mephisto Valse
http://www.nishiharatoro.com/
For an OTA-Berlin Mini-Composer biography of Isaac Albéniz i Pascual’ - http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/04/10/ota-berlin-constituency-blog-mini-composer-bios-spanish-composers-issac-albeniz/
Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori concerts -I [...] Continue Reading…
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Mozart Violinsonate K. 454 B-Dur
Brahms Violinsonate Nr. 3 d-moll
Ysaÿe Solo Violinsonate Nr. 2 ‘Obsession’
Saint-Saëns Havanaise
Saint-Saëns Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
Tomorrow, Saturday evening January the 7th at 2030hrs , the first Chamber Music concert of the group ‘Musica Litorali’s series continues with pianist Julien Quentin – all musicians of international renown. http://www.julienquentin.com/
Julien is one of the [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012

RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – Det Norske Solistkor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis D-Dur op. 123
Christiane Iven, Sopran
Gerhild Romberger, Alt
Steve Davislim, Tenor
Alfred Reiter, Bass
RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
‘Det Norske Solistkor’
Musicial Director and Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann
While it has become popular to play Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on January 1st as a way to bring in the new year – last night’s [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, December 25th, 2011

Programm
A. Messager (1853-1929): 3 valses I.
Albéniz (1860-1909): Tango op.165,
Nr.2
Pavana-Capricho
op.12
G. Fauré (1845-1924): Dolly Aragón-Fantasia
op.47, Nr.6
Programm
A. Messager (1853-1929): 3 valses I. Albéniz (1860-1909): Tango op.165, Nr.2
Pavana-Capricho op.12
G. Fauré (1845-1924): Dolly Aragón-Fantasia op.47, Nr.6
C. Debussy (1862-1918): Petite Suite M. de Falla (1876-1946): Deux danses espagnoles
Aus 3 Nocturnes: Fêtes aus „La vida breve“
PAUSE
French lightness and Spanish passion [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Erard and Pleyel pianos berlin, Isabel Engelmann & Jong-Eun Lee, ota-berlin piano salon, Piano, Piano for 4 hands Berlin, Piano Recital for 2 pianos + 4 hands, Piano Salon Christophori
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Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Camille Saint-Saëns – foto Wikipedia
Always with the Christian holiday of the’ birth of Jesus’, there is music which is often only heard once a year and this is unfortunate because along with many great Christmas songs there are classical pieces like Georg Friedrich Handel’s Oratorio Messiah and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio which musically are always welcome.
One not so oft played piece, but more [...] Continue Reading…
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn on December 16th 1770.
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Christofori,
On Thursday, December 29th . at 2030hrs, Michael Abramovich, will play two great Beethoven works – the Waldstein and Hammerklavier sonatas.
He will play on the salon’s latest Erard piano addition – built in 1909, with the [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: also known as the Waldstein, December 16th - Happy Birthday Ludwig van Beethoven, Erard and Pleyel pianos berlin, Op. 53, ota-berlin piano salon, Piano Salon Christophori, Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn on December 16th 1770.
Even though no actual authenticated record of the date of his birth exists, the registry of his baptism, in a Roman Catholic service at the Parish of St. Regius in Bonn made on 17 December, 1770 survives.
Infants born in Northern Germany at this time were traditionally [...] Continue Reading…
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