Im Geiste Messiaens: Pierre-Laurent Aimard und Tamara Stefanovich

By Michael Klier, 19 September 2021

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“Aimard gelang es, einfühlsam Messiaens wahrhaft gefühlte Gottesanbetung hörbar werden zu lassen”

Reviewed at Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 17 September 2021

Bartók, Mikrokosmos

Ravel, Sites auriculaires

Birtwistle, Keyboard Engine

Messiaen, Visions de l'amen, for two pianos

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano

Tamara Stefanovich, Piano

Salonen leads an electrifying Boulez tribute in New York

Susan Stempleski, 3rd October

The Philharmonic continues its celebration of the composer-conductor’s centennial with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard as soloist in an innovative program juxtaposing selections by the modernist maestro with pieces by Debussy.

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Reflections on Ravel: a three-course piano feast in Ciboure

Mark Pullinger, 2nd September

At the Festival Ravel, Bertrand Chamayou, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Hyunji Kim perform all the solo piano works at the Église Saint-Vincent, a stone’s throw from the house where Ravel was born.

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A novel take on a familiar tune: Tianyi Lu conducts Tchaikovsky 5

Ian Cochrane, 12th March

Tianyi Lu triumphs in her return to Montreal with a distinctive approach to Tchaikovsky's Fifth. Pierre-Laurent Aimard gives a spirited performance of Bartók's Third Piano Concerto.

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Dazzlingly dexterous Ravel from Aimard and Vӓnskӓ in Philadelphia

Cameron Kelsall, 7th March

The Philadelphia Orchestra's concert also served as a tribute to Michael Tilson Thomas, who was to have conducted the performance before withdrawing for cancer treatment.

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Passion and precision: Aimard plays Schoenberg and Ives

David Grundy, 2nd September

Revolutionary music, a century on: Pierre-Laurent Aimard excels in Schoenberg and Ives.

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Elim Chan and the RSNO thrill in three-concerto programme

David Smythe, 18th August

At the Edinburgh International Festival, Alison Balsom plays Wynton Marsalis's Trumpet Concerto, Pierre-Laurent plays Schoenberg's Piano Concerto before the RSNO plays Lutosławski's lively Concerto for Orchestra to finish.

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Michael Klier

Michael Klier macht schon seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert Musik. Als gebürtiger Berliner kam er 1993 nach Amsterdam. Er war Mitglied unterschiedlichster internationaler Ensembles und Orchester. Heute betreibt er eine florierende Unterrichts- und Coachingpraxis. Als Teamcoach bietet er dort Schulungen an, in denen die Kursteilnehmer miteinander komponieren, um so ihre ungenutzten kreativen Potentiale zu entdecken und besser miteinander zu kommunizieren. Denn: Musiker sind die Architekten des Himmels.

Im Geiste Messiaens: Pierre-Laurent Aimard und Tamara Stefanovich in Amsterdam