Andreas Staier, ein Wissenschaftler am Hammerflügel

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 19 October 2018

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“fünf Meisterwerke der Wiener Klassik... eines tiefsinniger als das andere”

Reviewed at Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin on 17 October 2018

Mozart, Fantasia for Piano in C minor, KV475

Haydn, Piano Sonata in E flat major, Hob XVI:49

Haydn, Variations in F minor "Sonata, un piccolo divertimento", Hob XVII:6

Beethoven, 6 Variations on an original theme for piano in F major, Op.34

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 17 in D minor "Tempest", Op.31 no.2

Andreas Staier, Harpsichord

Melnikov and Staier bring intimacy and fresh edge to Schubert

Nick Boston, 10th January

Alexander Melnikov and Andreas Staier's sensitive and insightful performances, combined with the fortepiano's freshness and added edge, make for a special evening of Schubert.

*****

A resonant fortepiano recital from Andreas Staier

Nahoko Gotoh, 23rd October

In the first half of the 19th century, the piano was still very much a developing instrument, and the composers were often pushing its limits both mechanically and sonically.

****1

Andreas Staier and Alexander Melnikov play Schubert

Laura Furones, 23rd September

An evening entirely devoted to Schubert's four-hand piano music, with a glorious tandem of Andreas Staier and Alexander Melnikov.

****1

Andreas Staier reinvents the Diabelli Variations

David Allen, 21st June

The story of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations is well known. The composer and publisher Anton Diabelli wanted to promote his new firm, and chose to do so by inviting fifty composers of varying fame to write a variation on his own waltz theme. Beethoven was, of course, the dominant figure in Vienna at the end of the 1810s, and his variation was to be the highlight.

****1

Incandescente Jupiter : Julien Chauvin unit Mozart et l’OFJ à Gaveau

Philippe Ramin, 6th November

La confiance du chef a hissé l’Orchestre Français des Jeunes vers l’excellence dans un programme entièrement consacré à Mozart, suivant un discours musical parfaitement abouti.

*****

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

**111

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Sebastian Urmoneit

Sebastian Urmoneit sudierte Musikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Berlin (u. a. bei Carl Dahlhaus). Ergänzendes Studium an der HdK Berlin (UdK)(u. a. bei Heinrich Poos und Hartmut Fladt), Dissertation zu Wagners „Tristan und Isolde“; Aufsätze über Schubert, Wagner, Wolf, Strauss und Brahms; Herausgabe: Joseph Haydn, Memoria, Band 11 mit Hartmut Fladt. Werkeinführungen für das Berliner Konzerthaus, das Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, die Bamberger Symphoniker, die Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, die Südwestdeutsche Konzertdirektion Erwin Russ GmbH, die Dachauer Schlosskonzerte, die Albert Konzerte GmbH in Freiburg u. a.

Ein Wissenschaftler am Hammerflügel: Andreas Staier spielt im Pierre Boulez Saal