Matthias Goerne et Menahem Pressler

By Julie Jozwiak, 03 July 2015

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“...grâce à un maître et un maître en devenir, l’on comprend ce qu’est l’âme de la musique.”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 2 July 2015

Schumann, Sechs Gesänge Op.89

Schumann, Sechs Gedichte und Requiem, Op.90

Schumann, Geistervariationen in E flat major, "Ghost Variations", WoO 24

Schumann, Dichterliebe, Op.48

Matthias Goerne, Baritone

Menahem Pressler, Piano

Good news from the New World

Kevin Wells, 22nd November

The first performance of the Boston Symphony’s final program for 2016 fell on St Cecilia's Day. The patron saint of music must have been pleased to see the past, the present and the future join hands in a program anchored by two warhorses of the Romantic repertory.

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Wistful Schubert and Chopin from nonagenarian Pressler

Sam Jacobson, 24th January

At age 92, Menahem Pressler presented a demanding recital at Symphony Center. Results were mixed, but his reverence to the music was incontrovertible.

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Menahem Pressler

Cynthia Wilson, 22nd December

Menahem Pressler's début with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Trevor Pinnock at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. Cynthia Wilson reviews.

*****

Oxford Philomusica with Menahem Pressler: Mendelssohn and Mozart

Julia Savage, 4th August

The Oxford International Piano Festival comprises a two-week long series of workshops and concerts, hosted by Oxford Philomusica and featuring pianists of international esteem, among them Andreas Haefliger and Sergei Babayan. It was Menahem Pressler, now in his 88th year, who gave the closing piano masterclasses and performed in the closing concert at the Sheldonian Theatre.

***11

Mozart, amour de vieillesse

Beate Langenbruch, 24th September

Lyon touché par un musicien d’exception : Menahem Pressler en concert à l’Auditorium

*****

Matthias Goerne and Daniil Trifonov’s journey to the heart of Winter

Michelle Assay, 16th October

Matthias Goerne and Daniil Trifonov take their Toronto audience on a Schubertian journey to remember at Koerner Hall.

*****

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Julie Jozwiak

Après des études en lettres et musicologie ainsi qu’un master d’école de commerce, Julie Jozwiak s’est consacrée à la production de concerts classiques. Elle est harpiste, choriste et violoniste, mais se définit surtout comme mélomane passionnée, et affectionne aussi beaucoup la danse classique qu’elle a longtemps pratiquée. Son amour inconditionnel du spectacle vivant l’incite à se rendre quasi quotidiennement au concert, à l’opéra, au ballet, au théâtre… ou à tout autre type de performance scénique.

Matthias Goerne et Menahem Pressler, duo de maîtres