A pianist for all seasons: Argerich crowns festival with a debut

Von Mark Pullinger, 03 Juli 2021

Laden, bitte warten...

“soulful, intimate performances, almost as if Argerich was unaware of her audience”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Laeiszhalle: Großer Saal, Hamburg, am 30 Juni 2021

Bach, Partita Nr. 1 B-Dur, BWV825

Vivaldi, L'estro armonico: Concerto for 4 violins, cello and strings in B minor, Op.3 no.10, RV 580

Couperin, Les Ombres errantes

Couperin, Pièces de clavecin, Ordre no.18: Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les Maillotins

Bartók, Sonate für zwei Klaviere und Perkussion, Sz.110

Tschaikowsky, Die Jahreszeiten für Klavier, Op.37a oder Op.37b (excerpts)

Piazzolla, 4 Estaciones porteñas (Die Vier Jahreszeiten von Buenos Aires) (piano trio)

Martha Argerich, Klavier

Akane Sakai, Klavier

Akiko Suwanai, Violine

Tedi Papavrami, Violine

Adrian Iliescu, Violine

Thomas Lefort, Violine

Lea Petra, Klavier

Iddo Bar-Shaï, Klavier

Nelson Goerner, Klavier

Alexej Gerassimez, Percussion

Lukas Böhm, Percussion

Eugene Lifschitz, Cello

Alexander Gurning, Klavier

Symphoniker Hamburg – Laeiszhalle Orchester

Glanerts Requiem für Hieronymus Bosch in Hamburg

Stefan Pillhofer, 28th November

Die Hamburger Symphoniker brachten unter Markus Stenz Detlev Glanerts Requiem für Hieronymus Bosch zusammen mit der Europa Chor Akademie auf die Bühne der Elbphilharmonie.

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Musikalische Amerika-Reise mit den Hamburger Symphonikern

Isabel Schubert, 3rd April

Dirigent John Axelrod, Klarinettist Sebastian Manz und die Hamburger Symphoniker präsentierten sich mit einem mitreißenden amerikanischen Konzertprogramm in Hamburg.

***11

Revolutionary voices in Hamburg with Sylvain Cambreling

Alexander Hall, 25th May

Three aspects of fate were on display in this intriguing combination of the new, the less familiar and the unashamedly popular given by the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor.

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German Romanticism from Argerich, Cambreling and Symphoniker Hamburg

Alexander Hall, 21st November

The octogenarian phenomenon that is Martha Argerich still has something different to say about Schumann's Piano Concerto, while Sylvain Cambreling adopts a bright and breezy approach to Schubert's Ninth Symphony.

***11

Catriona Morison joins Martha Argerich in outstanding performances

Edward Sava-Segal, 20th June

An enjoyable first live stream of the 2021 edition of the Martha Argerich Festival in Hamburg's Laeiszhalle.

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Martha Argerich brings magical Ravel to Hamburg

Chris Garlick, 19th February

A performance of Ravel's concerto to savour as a beacon of light and hope in these dark times.

*****

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

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