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| Seeing Yefim Bronfman; at Carnegie tonight | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 12 2010, 03:33 AM (198 Views) | |
| jon-nyc | Apr 12 2010, 03:33 AM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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Here's the program: BEETHOVEN Thirty-Two Variations on an Original Theme in C Minor, WoO 80 JÖRG WIDMANN XI Humoresken SCHUMANN Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 TCHAIKOVSKY Sonata in G Major, Op. 37 |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Klaus | Apr 12 2010, 03:56 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Not exactly my dream program, but I hope it will be a pleasant experience nevertheless. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 12 2010, 04:25 AM Post #3 |
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Cheers
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I love the LvB C- vars, I used to play them myself. I'm also a fan of the Schumann. I've ever loved Tchaikovsky, and I hadn't heard of Widman before seeing this program. All in all it should be good, though. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 12 2010, 06:08 AM Post #4 |
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Saw him play Rach 3 in Trenton, NJ a couple years ago....played it so effortlessly, especially for such a big guy. Anyway, hope you enjoy your program! |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 12 2010, 06:32 AM Post #5 |
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Cheers
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I saw him play Rach 2 recently. I've never seen him play solo. |
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| bachophile | Apr 12 2010, 10:53 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Then Bronfman appears. Bronfman the brontosaur! Mr. Fortisimo. Enter Brofman to play Prokofiev at such a pace and with such bravado as to knock my morbidity clear out of the ring. He is conspicuously massive through the upper torso, a force of nature camoufalged in a sweatshirt, somebody who has strolled into the Music Shed out of a circus where is the strongman and who takes on the piano as a ridiculous challenge to the gargantuan strength he revels in. Yefim Bronfman looks less like the person who is going to play the piano than like the guy who should be moving it. I had never before seen anybody go at a piano like this sturdy little barrel of an unshaven Russian Jew. When he's finished, I thought, they'll have to throw the thing out. He crushes it. He doesn't let that piano conceal a thing. Whatever's in there is going to come out, and come out with its hands in the air. And when it does, everything there out in the open, the last of the last pulsation, he himself gets up and goes, leaving behind him our redemption. With a jaunty wave, he is suddenly gone, and though he takes all his fire off with him like no less a force than Prometheus, our own lives now seem inextinghuishable. Nobody is dying, nobody - not if Bronfman has anything to say about it. Philip Roth |
| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| John Galt | Apr 12 2010, 10:56 AM Post #7 |
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Fulla-Carp
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When I saw all the upper case letters., I thought someone had hacked bach's password and was posting as him . Until I noticed that this was apparently a quote of something philip roth said....
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| Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness. | |
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| bachophile | Apr 12 2010, 11:02 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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should have put in quote marks to make it more clear. yes, completly copy pasted and lifted from yefim's wiki bio. he performs regularly here but i have yet to hear him. my next ipo subscription concert is emanuel ax doing chopin concerto #2 in june. Edited by bachophile, Apr 12 2010, 11:03 AM.
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| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| Phlebas | Apr 12 2010, 11:03 AM Post #9 |
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Bull-Carp
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Here's the big guy at the cadenza to the Rach 3. Can't argue with anything he does here. Wonderful playing. Enjoy the recital. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 12 2010, 11:22 AM Post #10 |
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Phlebas - thanks for posting that video. It reminded me how great he is at managing the tempo, among his other excellent abilities at dancing between power and subtlety. |
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