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| | Piano Concerto (Grieg) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Grieg's concerto is often compared to the Piano Concerto of Robert Schumann — it is in the same key, the opening descending flourish on the piano is similar, and the overall style is considered to be closer to Schumann than any other single composer. | | | The Piano Concerto in A minor by Edvard Grieg was the only concerto Grieg completed. | | | It is written for solo piano, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, violins, violas, cellos and double basses. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)
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| | Encyclopedia: Carl Nielsen |
| | His family was relatively poor, but he was still able to learn the violin and piano as a child. | | | Symphony No. 3, "Espansiva" was premiered in the same concert as the Violin Concerto. | | | It is not true "program music" but rather a group of general character sketches, and one need not know which temperament Nielsen is considering in order to appreciate the work as a whole. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Carl-Nielsen
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| | - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 |
| | As a composer Schumann's gifts are clearly heard in his piano music and in his songs. | | | Later piano music by Schumann includes the Album fuer die Jugend of 1848, Waldszenen of 1849 and the collected Bunte Blaetter and Albumblaetter drawn from earlier work. | | | Other important chamber music by Schumann includes three piano trios, three violin sonatas and a number of shorter character-pieces that include the Maerchenbilder for viola and piano, collections of Phantasiestuecke with alternative instrumentation and the cello and piano Fuenf Stuecke im Volkston, with other short pieces generally suggesting a literary or otherwise extra-musical programme. |
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http://www.karadar.it/Dictionary/schumann.html
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| | National Review: Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor; Cello Conc... @ HighBeam Research |
| | Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor; Cello Concerto in A Minor. | | | Schumann's melodic gifts were not of the greatest, but they are more than sufficient to make us listen with involvement, and be happy that we are listening. | | | The Schumann Piano Concerto gives us Gieseking playing the kind of music he played best. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:9051385&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | Chicago Symphony Orchestra - January 18: Staatskapelle Berlin - Schumann |
| | The slow opening is sheer magic: piano arpeggios cushion a lyrical melody begun by the clarinet and continued in the horn. | | | Schumann was already working on the piece when the young violinist Joseph Joachim visited, inspiring the composition of a similar fantasy for violin and orchestra. | | | Although Schumann eventually wrote a serious, three-movement piano concerto, even that began life as a single-movement fantasy, and he continued to be drawn to the idea of writing a big, poetic concert piece. |
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http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=5,5,1,17
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| | MSCO 4 program notes |
| | Joseph Eisele, piano, and the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra. | | | Jeffrey Lee, piano, with the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra. | | | Williams has also written two symphonies, a violin concerto, a flute concerto, an essay for strings, and a number of chamber music pieces. |
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http://www.augustanaarts.org/MSCO4programnotes.htm
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| | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail |
| | Her own Piano Concerto, also in A minor, was written between 1832 and 1835, and Schumann had orchestrated the finale during late 1834 and early 1835. | | | The Fantasy was Schumann's first completed work for piano and orchestra; he had made four earlier attempts at writing a piano concerto, but these were all abandoned. | | | It began life as a Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra in one movement, completed by Schumann in May 1841. |
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http://wdch.laphil.com/about/piece_detail.cfm?id=487
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| | Classical Music online store - product index - page 8 |
| | Bach: Violin Concertos / Standage, Collegium Musicum 90 | | | Shostakovich: Violin Concertos 1 & 2 / Mordkovitch, Järvi | | | Clementi: 7 Sonatas For Piano And Flute / Coen, Pontecorvo |
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http://storedaily.com/ArkivMusic/i-8.htm
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| | Lesson Tutor : Classical Composer Robert Schumann |
| | Schumann was one of the first composers to take childhood as a theme, recreating in music the sense of wonder of a child. | | | Schumann's courtship and marriage to Clara Wieck is one of the most famous romances in music. | | | Robert Schumann's evergreen ‘Piano Concerto in A minor' |
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http://www.lessontutor.com/bf1.html
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| | Classical Net Review - Schumann - Piano Concerto/Piano Quintet |
| | Quintet for Piano, 2 Violins, Viola and Cello, Op. | | | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. | | | Deutsche Grammophon has another excellent Schumann Concerto in its catalog, the Pollini/Abbado, with the Berlin Philharmonic, coupled with a good but not great Schoenberg Piano Concerto. |
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http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/d/dgg63179a.html
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| | Composer Biography - Schumann, Robert |
| | Schumann, as a pianist composer, made the piano partake fully in the expression of emotion in such songs, often giving it the most telling music when the voice had finished. | | | In 1841, however, Schumann turned to orchestral music: he wrote symphonies and a beautiful, poetic piece for piano and orchestra for Clara that he later reworked as the first movement of his Piano Concerto. | | | He wrote some piano music and took lessons from Friedrich Wieck. |
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http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/composer.asp?nodeid=223
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| | Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Press Release: PIANIST AND CONDUCTOR ANDRÁS SCHIFF LEADS PHILHARMONIC FROM ... |
| | Schumann's only piano concerto, also performed by Schiff and the Philharmonic on this program, began as a single-movement work in 1841, titled Fantasy in A minor. | | | The conductor leads the orchestra from the piano in the Bach and Schumann concertos, while taking the podium to conduct the "Italian" Symphony. | | | Known as an exponent of repertory ranging from Beethoven to Mozart and Haydn to Schubert, the music of Bach has figured prominently in András Schiff's performances and recordings. |
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http://www.laphil.org/press/press_detail.cfm?id=1009&ps=1
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| | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 |
| | Concerto in A minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. | | | Percy Grainger, a friend of Grieg's and a celebrated interpreter of the Concerto, was the soloist in the National Symphony Orchestra's first performance of the work, with Hans Kindler conducting, on November 20, 1932; in the most recent one, on June 21, 2002, the soloist was Laura Mikkola and the conductor was Osmo Vänskä. | | | The slow movement is in the nature of an extended lullabye or reverie, with some lovely moments for the cello, which Grieg favored as frequently as Schumann in his orchestral scores and chamber music. |
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http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2131
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| | Concert Premiere Review |
| | Schumann is quoted occasionally, and a new thematic idea is developed, where the piano wanders into beautiful melodies only to lose them to chaos. | | | The piano here is sparse, uneven, its fragile voice occasionally interacting with sections of the orchestra that emerge from the tense silence for momentary dialogues. | | | The orchestra and the piano play against each other like wind and rain in a tornado, ratcheting up the tension until Rouse's trademark brass and percussion come in at full blast, releasing a tremendous amount of energy that threatens to overwhelm the soloist. |
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http://www.fp1.com/sept98/columns/arts/rouse/rouse.html
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| | C.F. Peters Solo Piano - Schumann |
| | Schumann - Album for the Young (Koehler)(Urtext) Op. | | | Schumann - Bunte Blaetter; Album Leaves (Koehler) (Urtext) Op. | | | Schumann - Album for the Young (Jugend-Album) (43 Pieces) (Sauer) Op. |
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http://www.sheetmusic1.com/cfp.schumann.html
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| | - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4; Piano Sonatas, opp. 109 & 110 @ Soundbug |
| | This sublime, well-engineered recording of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto is a tantalizing glimpse. | | | I must start by admitting that this is the only recording of the 4th Piano Concerto I know, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. | | | And this fine version of the 4th Piano Concerto is coupled with two of Beethoven's last three sonatas; these are also tantalizing glimpses into what a Helene Grimaud Beethoven piano sonata cycle would sound like. |
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http://www.soundbug.com/asin/B00001SIBN
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| | Amazon.ca: Pno Cto In A Min/Pno Qnt In E: Music |
| | Quintet For Piano, 2 Violins, Viola And Cello In E Flat Major, Op. | | | There are a lot of superb recordings of Schumann Piano Concerto that is not showy at all but that is full of introvert fantasy, which means that this is a very difficult concerto for a pianist to bring off. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SDO0
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| | Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 |
| | The Concerto was first performed on 9 November that year in Pest with the composer on the piano again as so often before. | | | Given that Brahms' concerto is like a chamber piece writ large, the presence of the additional detail is most welcome. | | | I have many performances of Brahms Piano Concerto #2 including Arrau, Ax, Barenboin, Fleisher, Gilels, Horowitz, Hough, Richter and Zimerman. |
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http://www.ivanmoravec.net/albums/al-su1994.html
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| | Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto In A minor |
| | The music of the traditional Hardanger fiddle is subtly suggested in the piano part, with pedal-point effects, open fifths, and sharp dissonances. | | | He has taught piano at the Norwegian State Academy of Music since l973, and at the University of Oslo since 1983. | | | This motif appears frequently in Grieg's melodies; he borrowed it from Norwegian folk music, which also makes frequent use of it. |
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http://www.pluto.no/OFO/CD/Grieg_PianoConcert.html
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| | Piano Concerto |
| | Many composers working in the concerto genre have rushed to oblige the two most written-for instruments, violin and piano. | | | Maxwell Davies has written a concerto which struck me as a 1990s equivalent of the Bliss piano concerto of the late 1930s. | | | Recordings of almost all of Peter Maxwell Davies's works, as well as talks and interviews with the composer, are available for visitors to listen to at the National Sound Archive and British Music Information Centre in London. |
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http://www.maxopus.com/works/pianocon.htm
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| | Beethoven Piano Concerto on Almondnet |
| | Find beethoven piano concerto and more at Lycos Search. | | | RARE 1952 LP BEETHOVEN 3RD PIANO CONCERTO BACKHAUS/BÖHM... | | | BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Piano Concerto, ends Dec-2 12:13 GMT. |
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http://www.siuk.org.uk/schb/beethoven_piano_concerto.html
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| | Essay - Schumann Piano Concerto and a Metronome |
| | Essay - Schumann Piano Concerto and a Metronome | | | Maybe Schumann really did think about writing this as a piano fantasy rather than as a full-blown form of a concerto. | | | Vivisection the pianist does with regard to the pianist Schumann resolves in a piano more than a concerto. |
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http://www.geocities.com/laatons/michelangeli_essay_98.html
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| | Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music |
| | Maria João Pires (piano); Augustin Dumay (violin); Renaud Capuçcon (violin); Gérard Caussé (viola); Jian Wang (cello) | | | Pires and cohorts have tweaked the Schumann Piano Quintet's stinging edges to a fault, while their dazzling, blended virtuosity is quashed by over-resonant miking better suited to, say, a Bruckner symphony. | | | If you want Schumann's Piano Concerto and Piano Quintet on one disc, Rudolf Serkin's supercharged versions from the early 1960s (CBD Great Performances) have tremendous authority and pack an emotional wallop. |
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http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=1600
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| | Concerto Suggestions |
| | Double Piano and Violin; Violin in d minor | | | All Piano except 16, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26 | | | Concertos Requiring up to 29 Piece Orchestra * |
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http://www.summertrios.org/Programs/Concerto/concerto_suggestions.htm
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| | Magalhaes & Schumann Piano Duo |
| | Soloist Nina Schumann was pure delight in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor K.466. | | | A perfectly tuned couple: Nina Schumann and Luis Magalhães were a perfectly tuned couple, with their technical perfection and transparency of sound in the foreground of their musicianship. | | | But in the long passages where the piano was alone, Magalhães could shine. |
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http://www.twopianists.com/press.htm
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| | Dvorak Piano Concerto |
| | The Concerto was recorded in a slightly abridged version (leaving out bars 206-238 from the first movement, and bars 233-305 from the Finale). | | | Quite by design, he has respected Dvorak’s original version of this Piano Concerto’s solo part. | | | The Concerto’s premiere on the international circuit (London, October 13, 1883) featured German born British pianist Oscar Beringer. |
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http://www.ivanmoravec.net/albums/al-su3067.html
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| | Grieg notes |
| | Fashioned roughly on the Piano Concerto in A minor of Robert Schumann, the tone and flavor of the piece are uniquely Grieg's. | | | From the outset, we are dazzled with brilliant arpeggios and scales that cover the gamut of the piano. | | | A massive crescendo on the timpani introduces the piano, which demonstrates its entire range with a dramatic seven octave descent from the highest octave to the lowest tone. |
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http://www.music.pomona.edu/orchestra/gri_pc.htm
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| | Clara SCHUMANN Piano Concerto NAXOS 8.557552 [CC]: Classical CD Reviews- April 2005 MusicWeb-International |
| | Also noteworthy is the way, after extended solo piano, a solo cello emerges from the piano texture. | | | The Piano Trio appeared, if memory serves, on a BBC Music Magazine cover disc in around 1995/6. | | | If there is one thing that runs through all 54 minutes of this disc, it is Clara’s sure compositional voice; there is a confidence here that assures the listener that all is in hand. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/Apr05/Clara_Schumann_concerto_8557552.htm
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| | Andsnes / Jansons / Grieg / Schumann / Mahler 6 |
| | Perhaps the most notable "historic" recording of the Schumann is the one by 78-year old Emil von Sauer recorded live in 1940 with Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw in which his noble, grandiose intentions are betrayed by his fingers. | | | My favorte recording of both concertos for decades has been the 1960 Leon Fleisher/ Szell/Cleveland Orchestra Epic version, recently reissued in a super remastering from open-reel tape and sounding better than ever (see REVIEW). | | | The sound picture is broad and spacious, with solid piano sound and a rich-sounding Berlin Philharmonic. |
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http://classicalcdreview.com/loa.html
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| | Piano Concerto No.1/Piano Concerto |
| | Title: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2/Violin Concerto in D (2 CDs) | | | Title: Piano Concerto No.2/Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini | | | Title: Piano Concerto No.1/Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
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http://catalogue.deccaclassics.com/catalogue/prodshow.jsp?searchstr=458628
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| | Schumann's Piano Concerto at the Manoel Theatre |
| | Calleja read music at the University of Malta, majoring in piano performance under the guidance of Michael Laus and obtaining the degree of B.A. Hons (First Class) and is in her final stages of the degree of Master of Music. | | | This is followed by what is undoubtedly regarded as one of the most beloved of all piano concertos - Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. | | | The second part of the concert will be devoted to Tchaikovsky's majestic Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. |
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http://www.maltamedia.com/news/2005/oa/printer_6204.shtml
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| | BAM 2012 |
| | It is thought that the evolution of this concerto originally started as a sonata for two pianos which later developed into a symphony and finally, in 1859, reached its present structure as the | | | A subsequent performance in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, conducted by Julius Rietz and again with Brahms as soloist, received a hostile reaction from the audience. | | | Free MP3 sample from Brahms Piano Concerto no.1, track no. 2 |
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http://www.belairmusic.com/bam2012.htm
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| | Samson Francois Plays Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Grieg Piano Concerto |
| | Schumann Piano Concerto and Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 / Arrau, Price: | | | Samson Francois Plays Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Grieg Piano Concerto | | | This DVD restored for the posterity, the craft of this notable pianist of aristocratic presence and elegant phrasing: Samson Francois who played a superb performance of the celebrated Ravel' s "Piano Concert for the left hand", dedicated originally to Paul Wittgenstein the Austrian pianist who lost his right arm in the WW1. |
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http://www.sixstroke.com/cgi-bin/cbooks/ca.pl?asinsearch=B0001AW02U
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| | BEETHOVEN-SCHUMANN/VIOLIN & PIANO CONCERTO CD - Elusive Disc |
| | Schumann's Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in A Minor, Op. | | | Beethoven's Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in D Major, Op. | | | BEETHOVEN-SCHUMANN/VIOLIN & PIANO CONCERTO CD Item Number: CD52 |
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http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CD52
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| | Schumann: Piano Concerto; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 |
| | Schumann: Piano Concerto; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 | | | In this case, Karajan's orchestration is canonical and elegant, it meshes very well with the piano solo. | | | I cry each time I listen to the allegro vivace... |
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http://thegreatlands.com/store/B000063UN6.php
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| | Saint Louis Symphony |
| | Stravinsky’s concerto, meanwhile, sounds pungent, and entirely modern. | | | But we also hear Robin Holloway, with a modern take on Schumann; he’s a composer who doesn’t want to forget the past. | | | The Brahms symphony has lively rhythms, and—like Mozart—the light and graceful sound of something like a serenade. |
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http://www.slso.org/04-05Series/fridayb.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts reviews Grieg: Piano Concerto; Schumann: Piano Concerto, Andsnes/ Berlin PO/ Jansons |
| | Buy Grieg: Piano Concerto; Schumann: Piano Concerto at Amazon.co.uk | | | Leif Ove Andsnes, the most celebrated of Norwegian pianists among the most sensitive of young artists, first made his mark on disc in the Grieg Concerto, and this new version, recorded live in Berlin, is just as spontaneous-sounding. | | | Even among the many discs coupling these two parallel piano concertos in A minor, this new issue stands out. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1059490,00.html
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| | ArkivMusic Schumann: Piano Concerto, Etc; Franck / Neumann, Moravec |
| | This Schumann concerto certainly belongs among the best ever recorded. | | | Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra, M 46 | | | His recordings tend to come few and far between, so it's especially exciting to be able to welcome these transcendent interpretations back into the catalog. |
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http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=46222
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| | RCA Victor |
| | Audio: Concerto No. 21 for Piano and Orchestra, K.467 in C; Andante II. | | | Audio: Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra in E-flat; Allegro maestoso | | | Joachim was so impressed by the child’s talents that he offered to take charge of Rubinstein’s musical and cultural education. |
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| | ArkivMusic Schumann: Piano Concerto; Schubert / Schnabel, Monteux |
| | Pierre Fournier (Cello), Joseph Szigeti (Violin), Artur Schnabel (Piano) | | | Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in B flat major, D 898/Op. | | | The performance is full of poetry and passion, and, happily, the recorded sound is excellent for its age." |
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http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=59745
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| | Piano F o r u m : Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor |
| | Piano Forum - Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor | | | Elton John: The Elton John Piano Solo Collection Performed by Elton John. | | | If you are looking at buying editions of this music, I reccomend the Schirmer edited by Grainger for the Grieg concerto. |
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| | Pianos and Pianists - Who to listen for |
| | Pianos and Pianists - Who to listen for | | | 9 May, 7.30pm The Barbican Piano Trio play Chausson's early G minor Piano Trio and Mozart's and Dvorak's Piano Quartets in E flat (viola to be confirmed) | | | 9 May, 7.30pm The Newbould Piano Quartet play David Matthews's A Song and Dance Sketchbook, and piano quartets by Mozart (G minor) and Dvorak |
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| | Sheet Music publication - Schumann Piano Concerto Op.54 |
| | Sheet Music > Keyboard or Piano & Vocal & Guitar | | | Advanced duet for two pianos, four hands by Robert Schumann. | | | Sheet Music publication - Schumann Piano Concerto Op.54 |
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| | Schumann: Piano Concerto etc - Jeno Jando (piano) - Buy @ OpusCDs.com music cd store |
| | This CD also includes the rare couplings of SChumann's two single movement concert pieces for piano and orchestra, his only other works for this combination. | | | Schumann: Piano Concerto etc - Jeno Jando (piano) - Buy @ OpusCDs.com music cd store | | | OpusCDs.com Online Classical Music Store featuring the best classical music releases with mp3 samples, DVDs and merchandise. |
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http://www.opuscds.com/cd/37128
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| | LSO - Fri 23 Sep 2005 7.30pm Barbican Hall, London. ELGAR, SCHUMANN, WALTON - London Symphony Orchestra |
| | ‘Something between symphony, concerto and grand sonata’ is how Schumann described his Piano Concerto, a gift to his wife which, perhaps more than any other, brings soloist and orchestra together in expressive union. | | | By contrast, the emotional upheavals of Walton’s rugged First Symphony derive from a tempestuous love affair. |
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