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Jakub Hrůša and Patricia Kopatchinskaja dazzle with the New York Philharmonic

By Susan Stempleski, 09 April 2025

The Czech conductor impresses in a wide-ranging program featuring a world premiere by Jesse Montogomery and the Philharmonic debut of the Moravian violinist.

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New York City

11 Apr 2025

Hrůša and Kopatchinskaja dazzle with the New York Phil

By Susan Stempleski

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New York City

Sensational Shostakovich from Kopatchinskaja and the London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall

By Susan Stempleski, 19 October 2024

The Moldavan-born violinist dazzles in a generous, emotion-laden program led by the LPO's Principal Conductor, Edward Gardner.

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New York City

22 Oct 2024

Sensational Shostakovich from PatKop and the LPO at Carnegie Hall

By Susan Stempleski

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London

Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s glowing Schoenberg opens hearts and minds at the Proms

By Roy Westbrook, 09 September 2024

Schoenberg advocate PatKop performs the knotty Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and young Finn Tarmo Peltokoski.

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London

10 Sep 2024

Kopatchinskaja’s glowing Schoenberg opens hearts and minds

By Roy Westbrook

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Saanen

Profession of faith of Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern at Gstaad Menuhin Festival

By Romain Daroles, 10 August 2024

The violinist (and, for tonight's purposes, conductor, stage director and performance artist) gives a rare and precious concert in Saanen’s beautiful church.

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Saanen

12 Aug 2024

Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s profession of faith in Gstaad

By Romain Daroles

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London

PatKop’s Everyday Non-sense proves to be a Dadaesque house party

By Christopher Woodley, 24 April 2024

Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Aurora Orchestra serve up an over-the-top confection at Purcell Room in Southbank Centre.

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London

26 Apr 2024

PatKop’s Everyday Non-sense proves to be a Dadaesque house party

By Christopher Woodley

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London

Moonstruck! Patricia Kopatchinskaja sings Pierrot lunaire

By Christopher Woodley, 02 December 2023

Schoenberg's modernist masterpiece gets lost in a fog of words and feral newsprint at the Southbank Centre's Purcell Room.

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London

04 Dec 2023

Moonstruck! Patricia Kopatchinskaja sings Pierrot lunaire

By Christopher Woodley

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Birmingham

Formality, intimacy, ferocity: a remarkable interplay of contrasts from the CBSO and Ludovic Morlot

By Simon Cummings, 15 June 2022

Ludovic Morlot helms an exhilarating, literally stunning, evening of music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Britten and Shostakovich.

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Birmingham

16 Jun 2022

Formality, intimacy, ferocity: Ludovic Morlot and the CBSO

By Simon Cummings

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Birmingham

Kopatchinskaja and Gražinytė-Tyla bring plenty of life to Russian music with the CBSO

By David Karlin, 02 March 2022

The Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist brings boundless energy to Stravinsky, while the CBSO excels in the slower passages of Tchaikovsky.

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Birmingham

03 Mar 2022

Kopatchinskaja and Gražinytė-Tyla bring life to Russian music

By David Karlin

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Edinburgh

RSNO and Thomas Søndergård shine in fiery Stravinsky and powerful Rachmaninov

By David Smythe, 18 February 2022

A dramatic reading of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto, with soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, rounded out a programme that also included a Carlijn Metselaar world premiere and a life-affirming performance of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony.

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Edinburgh

20 Feb 2022

RSNO and Søndergård shine in fiery Stravinsky and powerful Rachmaninov

By David Smythe

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London

Russian earthiness in the Budapest Festival Orchestra's Stravinsky festival

By Mark Pullinger, 17 February 2022

Iván Fischer conducts a mini Stravinsky residency at London's Southbank Centre, featuring six works that encompass a number of the chameleon composer's styles.

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London

19 Feb 2022

Russian earthiness in the Budapest Festival Orchestra's Stravinsky

By Mark Pullinger

Bucharest

Patricia Kopatchinskaja enters Fred Popovici’s sound world in Bucharest

By Edward Sava-Segal, 12 September 2021

A bracing programme of contemporary music from the Filarmonica Moldova Iaşi at the Enescu Festival.

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Bucharest

14 Sep 2021

Patricia Kopatchinskaja enters Fred Popovici’s sound world

By Edward Sava-Segal

Edinburgh

Patricia Kopatchinskaja battles the elements in Edinburgh

By Simon Thompson, 09 August 2021

The Edinburgh rain was the third performer in this concert, and unfortunately detracted from the two on the billing.

Edinburgh

09 Aug 2021

Patricia Kopatchinskaja battles the elements in Edinburgh

By Simon Thompson

Stuttgart

Spookiness in Stuttgart with the SWR Symphony, Eschenbach and Kopatchinskaja

By Alexander Hall, 26 February 2021

The darker sides of Romantic inventiveness are explored in Schumann’s neglected violin concerto and the clandestine woodland rustle of Dvořák’s G major symphony.

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Stuttgart

27 Feb 2021

Spookiness in Stuttgart with Eschenbach and Kopatchinskaja

By Alexander Hall

Seattle

Intensity and compassion: Patricia Kopatchinskaja's stunning return to Seattle

By Thomas May, 30 January 2020

PatKop gives a life-or-death account of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with the Seattle Symphony and Thomas Dausgaard on a programme framed by Scandinavian colours.

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Seattle

01 Feb 2020

Patricia Kopatchinskaja's stunning return to Seattle

By Thomas May

Lucerne

Kirill Petrenko brings unexpected delicacy to Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky in Lucerne

By Edward Sava-Segal, 29 August 2019

Capable of being defiant when needed, Kopatchinskaja impresses with the seemingly infinite timbral variety of her pianissimos.

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Lucerne

31 Aug 2019

Petrenko brings unexpected delicacy to Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky

By Edward Sava-Segal

Rheinfelden

Disconcerting pleasures with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern at the Solsberg Festival

By Sarah Batschelet, 08 June 2019

Cellist Sol Gabetta founded the Solsberg Festival to make music with like-minded people in a historically significant space and arranges programmes by, and with, select musicians.

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Rheinfelden

09 Jun 2019

Disconcerting pleasures with Camerata Bern at the Solsberg Festival

By Sarah Batschelet

Los Angeles

Gražinytė-Tyla tackles Tchaikovsky with Kopatchinskaja in Los Angeles

By Laurence Vittes, 06 April 2019

This was Tchaikovsky raw and fierce as if he had written it, as he might have, for a young lover.

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Los Angeles

07 Apr 2019

Gražinytė-Tyla tackles Tchaikovsky with Kopatchinskaja

By Laurence Vittes

Princeton

Kopatchinskaja and Leschenko bring their quest for fresh interpretations to Princeton

By Edward Sava-Segal, 28 March 2019

There is a very strong bond between two interpreters that approach music with the same unbridled passion

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Princeton

31 Mar 2019

A quest for fresh interpretations

By Edward Sava-Segal

London

Mischief and mastery: Ligeti concertos from Aurora Orchestra

By Roy Westbrook, 13 May 2018

Not even the BAFTAs going on next door offered the star quality on display in the QEH.

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London

14 May 2018

Mischief and mastery: Ligeti concertos from Aurora Orchestra

By Roy Westbrook

Zurich

Kopatchinskaja's Berg passionate and playful in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 29 November 2017

Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under conductor Teodor Currentzis brought the audience to its feet with works by Alban Berg and Dmitri Shostakovitch.

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Zurich

04 Dec 2017

Kopatchinskaja's Berg passionate and playful in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

London

Alain Altinoglu and the LPO cast a Napoleonic shadow in Beethoven and Tchaikovsky

By Dominic Lowe, 08 November 2017

A questionable performance of Schumann's Violin Concerto was redeemed by lively interpretations of Beethoven's Third Symphony and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

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London

10 Nov 2017

Casting a Napoleonic shadow in Beethoven and Tchaikovsky

By Dominic Lowe

New York City

Kopatchinskaja and Campbell revive the art of the string duo at Park Avenue Armory

By Jennifer Gersten, 09 October 2017

The violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja's endless curiosity was on display at a recital of duos with cellist Jay Campbell at the Park Avenue Armory.

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New York City

14 Oct 2017

Reviving the art of the string duo

By Jennifer Gersten

London

Potency and mischief: Enterprising duos from imaginative Kopatchinskaja and Leschenko

By Mark Thomas, 27 March 2017

An absorbing programme of violin and piano duos from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Polina Leschenko saw captivating performances of Webern, Bartók and Ravel with an interesting edge in Schumann.

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London

29 Mar 2017

Potency and mischief at Wigmore Hall

By Mark Thomas

Berlin

Rebels without a cause: Teodor Currentzis in Berlin

By Sam Johnstone, 13 March 2017

Teodor Currentzis, bad boy of early music, appeared at the Konzerthaus Berlin with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and MusicAeterna for a performance that turned it up to 11.

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Berlin

15 Mar 2017

Rebels without a cause in Berlin

By Sam Johnstone

London

Black Angels: Kopatchinskaja and Jurowski brush with death

By Mark Pullinger, 22 February 2017

The Grim Reaper swept the aisles of the Royal Festival Hall in Vladimir Jurowski's latest programme in the Southbank Centre’s “Belief and Beyond Belief” series which explores faith and spirituality.

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London

23 Feb 2017

Black Angels: a brush with death

By Mark Pullinger

London

Rhine Journey: curious and boisterous Schumann with the OAE

By Mark Pullinger, 06 February 2016

Schumann's Violin Concerto is a relative rarity in the concert hall, but Patricia Kopatchinskaja's performance did little to suggest a neglected masterpiece.

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London

07 Feb 2016

Rhine Journey: curious and boisterous Schumann

By Mark Pullinger

Houston

Barber, Brahms win for Houston Symphony, despite Schumann disarray

By Sydney Boyd, 30 January 2016

As long as the beginning and the end of a performance come together, will anyone remember the grievances in between?

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Houston

31 Jan 2016

Barber, Brahms win for Houston Symphony, despite Schumann disarray

By Sydney Boyd

London

Spanning the centuries with the LPO, Stenz and Kopatchinskaja

By Alexander Hall, 28 October 2015

Three substantial works from 1800, 1913 and 2008 in an enterprising and unusual combination, performed by the London Phlharmonic Orchestra conducted by Markus Stenz, and with the Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja as soloist.

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London

29 Oct 2015

Spanning the centuries with the LPO

By Alexander Hall

New York City

Mostly Kopatchinskaja – Martin, Bach, and Mozart close New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival

By Kevin W Ng, 23 August 2014

A blazing performance by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and a mildly disappointing Mozart Requiem round off New York’s annual Mostly Mozart Festival

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New York City

24 Aug 2014

Mostly Kopatchinskaja – Martin, Bach, and Mozart

By Kevin W Ng

Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival: London Philharmonic Orchestra

By Alan Coady, 18 August 2014

Jurowski, Kopatchinskaja and the LPO entrance with a varied and imaginative programme.

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Edinburgh

20 Aug 2014

LPO Thrill with Lindberg, Bartók and Beethoven

By Alan Coady

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Paris

Pierrot lunaire dans tous ses éclats par Patricia Kopatchinskaja à l'Auditorium du Louvre

By Chloë Rouge, 20 November 2024

Habité par son personnage, la violoniste, chanteuse, compositrice et comédienne livre une performance de premier choix avec des partenaires au diapason.

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Paris

21 Nov 2024

Pierrot lunaire dans tous ses éclats par Kopatchinskaja au Louvre

By Chloë Rouge

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Aix-en-Provence

Songs and Fragments entre folie et nihilisme au Festival d’Aix

By Romain Daroles, 07 July 2024

Belle idée que d'associer les Eight Songs for a Mad King de Peter Maxwell Davies et des Kafka-Fragmente de György Kurtág, dans une mise en scène de Barrie Kosky et avec un ensemble d'interprètes brillants !

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Aix-en-Provence

08 Jul 2024

Songs and Fragments entre folie et nihilisme au Festival d’Aix

By Romain Daroles

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Wuppertal

Im R(h)einen: Schumann und Brahms mit Kopatchinskaja und Herreweghe

By Jens Klier, 05 May 2024

Ausgehend von Goethes Rheinfall und Faust-Tragödie mündete die Interpretation beim stARTfestival von Bayer Kultur in einem Meer aus „durchbrausender“ Begeisterung und „wachsendem Entzücken“.

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Wuppertal

06 May 2024

Im R(h)einen: Schumann und Brahms mit Kopatchinskaja und Herreweghe

By Jens Klier

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Paris

Le Philhar' en folie : PatKop au top, Peltokoski hors du Walhalla

By Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, 29 March 2024

Si Tarmo Peltokoski déçoit dans la grande fresque tirée du Ring de Wagner malgré un Philhar' en forme, Patricia Kopatchinskaja éblouit dans une œuvre difficile, le Concerto pour violon de Schönberg.

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Paris

02 Apr 2024

Le Philhar' en folie : PatKop au top, Peltokoski hors du Walhalla

By Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut

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Lille

Le feu sacré de Bloch, l'ONL et Kopatchinskaja au Nouveau Siècle

By Valentin Gautron Lavarone, 07 February 2024

Dans le concerto pour violon de Cattaneo (avec une Patricia Kopatchinskaja toujours fulgurante) comme dans Strauss et Bernstein, Alexandre Bloch et l'Orchestre National de Lille ont livré une grande démonstration d'art orchestral.

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Lille

09 Feb 2024

Le feu sacré de Bloch, l'ONL et Kopatchinskaja au Nouveau Siècle

By Valentin Gautron Lavarone

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Madrid

La London Symphony Orchestra en Ibermúsica: altas expectativas

By David Santana Cañas, 24 October 2023

La London Symphony Orchestra abre la temporada 23/24 de Ibermúsica con Sir Antonio Pappano y Patricia Kopatchinskaja.

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Madrid

25 Oct 2023

La London Symphony Orchestra en Ibermúsica: altas expectativas

By David Santana Cañas

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Salzburg

Bar füßig und jeder vernünftigen Mäßigkeit: Patricia Kopatchinskaja in Salzburg

By Michael Vieth, 14 August 2023

Allerlei Parodistisches sowie Subversives, das die Schranken zwischen Alltagswelt und Kunst niederreißt, macht dem Salzburger Festspielpublikum sowie exzellenten Solisten der Camerata Salzburg viel Spaß.

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Salzburg

15 Aug 2023

Bar füßig und jeder vernünftigen Mäßigkeit: Patricia Kopatchinskaja

By Michael Vieth

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Baden-Baden

Magische Ruhe und expressive Ausbrüche: Patricia Kopatchinskaja und Fazıl Say in Baden-Baden

By Christoph Wurzel, 02 June 2023

Das Wort von den Ausnahmekünstlern war hier einmal angebracht: Patricia Kopatschinskaja und Fazil Say spielten mit unerhörter Prägnanz und unbändigem Temperament Sonaten von Janáček, Brahms und Bartók, wie sie selten zu hören sind.

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Baden-Baden

03 Jun 2023

Magische Ruhe und expressive Ausbrüche: Kopatchinskaja in Baden-Baden

By Christoph Wurzel

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Madrid

La Bamberger Symphoniker vuelve a triunfar en Ibermúsica

By David Santana Cañas, 24 January 2023

Jakob Hrůša se consagra en Ibermúsica con un programa variado y complejo, una oportunidad excelente para mostrar todo el potencial de esta orquesta bávara.

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Madrid

27 Jan 2023

La Bamberger Symphoniker vuelve a triunfar en Ibermúsica

By David Santana Cañas

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Menton

Fazıl Say et Patricia Kopatchinskaja à Menton, un duo captivant et engagé

By Manon Decroix, 09 August 2022

Avec de forts partis-pris interprétatifs, le pianiste turc et la violoniste moldave ont proposé un récital riche et spectaculaire.

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Menton

11 Aug 2022

Fazıl Say et Patricia Kopatchinskaja captivants et engagés à Menton

By Manon Decroix

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Graz

Weinberg, Strawinsky und Tschaikowsky mit dem CBSO und Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla in Graz

By Isabella Steppan, 28 March 2022

Klangschön aber letztlich zu kalkuliert, um Emotionen zu wecken – so präsentierte sich das City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra zu Gast im Stefaniensaal.

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Graz

30 Mar 2022

Weinberg, Strawinsky und Tschaikowsky mit dem CBSO und Gražinytė-Tyla

By Isabella Steppan

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Brussels

Bozar expérimente le phénomène Kopatchinskaja

By Valentin Gautron Lavarone, 03 October 2021

La précision d'Aziz Shokhakimov magnifie Ravel et Beethoven quand Patricia Kopatchinskaja, pieds nus et survoltée, fait du Premier Concerto pour violon de Mendelssohn un moment inoubliable.

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Brussels

05 Oct 2021

Bozar expérimente le phénomène Kopatchinskaja

By Valentin Gautron Lavarone

Paris

Le Philhar’ impressionne pour la grand-messe audiovisuelle de Radio France sur Culturebox

By Augustin Javel, 27 April 2021

C'est un Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France solide qui offre un concert entièrement dédié au XXe siècle sur Culturebox, avec l'excellente cheffe Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

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Paris

29 Apr 2021

Le Philhar’ de Radio France impressionne sur Culturebox

By Augustin Javel

Bern

Patricia Kopatchinskajas Der Tod und das Mädchen als poetischer Konzertfilm

By Michael Klier, 27 March 2021

Ein außergewöhnliches Konzertprojekt von Patricia Kopatchinskaja und der Camerata Bern, das das schier unerschöpfliche Potential klassischer Musik ausleuchtet.

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Bern

28 Mar 2021

Kopatchinskajas Der Tod und das Mädchen als poetischer Konzertfilm

By Michael Klier

Cologne

Zurück in die Zukunft mit Patricia Kopatschinskaja und Máton Illés

By Michael Klier, 11 January 2020

Marton Illés ist im Gegensatz zu Bruno Maderna ein vollkommen unpolitischer Komponist, für den es nur eine Art von Musikhören gibt: den Genuss von Klangenergie.

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Cologne

13 Jan 2020

Zurück in die Zukunft mit Patricia Kopatschinskaja und Máton Illés

By Michael Klier

Berlin

Lebendiger Schönberg und unerbittlicher Tschaikowsky von den Berliner Philharmonikern

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 07 March 2019

Kirill Petrenko zeigt Großes und Unbegrenztes in Tschaikowskys Fünfter Symphonie.

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Berlin

12 Mar 2019

Lebendiger Schönberg und unerbittlicher Tschaikowsky von Petrenko

By Sebastian Urmoneit

Paris

Entre liesse et tragédie : Péter Eötvös dirige ses œuvres à la Philharmonie

By Louise Boisselier, 24 October 2018

L’Orchestre de Paris s’adjoignait mercredi la violoniste Patricia Kopatchinskaja pour un concert consacré à deux maîtres de la musique hongroise : Béla Bartók et Péter Eötvös, au pupitre de direction ce soir.

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Paris

26 Oct 2018

Entre liesse et tragédie : Péter Eötvös à la Philharmonie

By Louise Boisselier

La Coruña

Kopatchinskaja y Slobodeniouk inauguran con corazón y alma la temporada de la OSG

By Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 06 October 2018

La Sinfónica de Galicia abrió su nueva temporada en la compañía de la violinista Patricia Kopatchinskaja que presentó el infrecuente Concierto op.36 de Arnold Schönberg, completó el programa otra impactante obra, la Sinfonía núm. 11 de Shostakovich.

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La Coruña

08 Oct 2018

La Sinfónica de Galicia abre su temporada con corazón y alma

By Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro

Vienna

Spiel mit der Sprache: Wiener Festwochen im Konzerthaus

By Simon Haasis, 04 June 2016

Wiener Festwochenzeit ist Experimentierzeit: das Experiment des doppelten Konzertabends gelingt.

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Vienna

07 Jun 2016

Spiel mit der Sprache

By Simon Haasis

Zurich

Hinreißend engagiert: Patricia Kopatchinskaja mit dem COE in Zürich

By Rolf Kyburz, 09 May 2016

Kopatchinskaja brachte Prokofjews wunderbare Melodien intensiv zum Leuchten, konnte aber auch gegen Ende des ersten Satzes eine Spannung aufbauen, die es mit jedem Krimi aufnahm.

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Zurich

11 May 2016

Hinreißend engagiert

By Rolf Kyburz