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…
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…
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon Chirstofori concert series,
Next week I can invite you to 2 ‘Romantic’ Music recitals, the first will be next Tuesday evening, the 13th December 12th at 2030 hrs.
‘The Chopin Project’ with Eugene Mursky, a world-class pianist, is the complete recording of all of Chopin’s piano work played over 12 evenings at [...] Continue Reading…
What a fabulous concert!
Benjamin Moser playing Beethoven, Bach and then again Beethoven yesterday evening in another superlative concert at the new premises of the ‘Piano Salon Christofori’ in the Berlin district of Wedding.
It was a great pleasure to be involved with an enthusiastic Piano Salon Christophori audience yesterday evening, which included some ‘Benjamin Moser’ groupies or the Berlin section of the Ben [...] Continue Reading…
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon -
I would like to invite you to the following concerts this week.
This Saturday, 05th November at 20.30hrs, we will continue after a long pause with a song recital, a very special one: One of the most renowned young German baritone, Peter Schöne will be accompanied by the beautiful Ukrainian piano virtuoso Olga Monakh [...] Continue Reading…
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…
Kurt Sanderling, a legend and doyen of German conductors, has died at the age of 98, just one day before his 99th birthday.
His last public concert with “his” orchestra, the ‘Berlin Symphony Orchestra’ had been on 19th May in 2002, when he was 89 whereupon he decided to retire from public life.
This orchestra now is known as the ‘Konzerthausorchester Berlin’ – http://www.konzerthaus.de/konzerthausorchester/portraet.php?id_language=2
In [...] Continue Reading…
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…
‘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…
Liebe Freunde des Liedgutes,
In der kommenden Woche wird es kein Konzert im Piano Salon geben, dafür aber einen ganz wunderbaren Liedzyklus in der darauf folgenden. Am Donnerstag, dem 28.07. um 20.30 Uhr werden die schöne Sopranistin Dana Marbach, der Bassbariton Assaf Levitin und der Pianist Dan Deutsch eines der bestbesuchten Konzerte unserer kurzen Salongeschichte wiederholen mit dem Liederzyklus “Das [...] Continue Reading…
Liebe Freunde der Salonabende,
Ich darf herzlich zu zwei Konzerten in der kommenden Woche einladen: am Donnerstag, dem 23.06. um 20.30h wird die vielerort gerühmte usbekische Pianistin Barno Haknazarova, ihren ersten Soloabend im Piano Salon geben. Und das mit einem wunderbaren Programm eines großen Klavierabends, der alle Facetten des Klavieres zzu zeigen vermag und von Beethoven über Rachmaninoff bis [...] Continue Reading…
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