Romantic, serene, intense: Buchbinder brings Beethoven to Lucerne

By Sarah Batschelet, 18 November 2019

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“...as magical as to herald an appearance of Shakespeare’s Titania and her Oberon”

Reviewed at Culture and Congress Centre: Lucerne Hall, Lucerne on 16 November 2019

Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major, Op.19

Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 4 in G major, Op.58

Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor, Op.37

Rudolf Buchbinder, Piano

Festival Strings Lucerne

Festival Strings Lucerne bring sleek clarity and ambient stasis

Simon Cummings, 31st May

Maria João Pires gives a soporific, lacklustre performance of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, while the Festival Strings Lucerne transform Honegger’s Pastorale d'été into a riveting ambient moodscape and bring pristine clarity to the Pastoral Symphony.

***11

Rudolf Buchbinder completes his Lucerne Beethoven journey

Sarah Batschelet, 17th November

Rudolf Buchbinder and the Lucerne Festival Strings recently performed Beethoven’s First and Fifth Piano Concertos in the last of the prestigious Piano festivals at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre.

*****

Rudolf Buchbinder completes Singapore Beethoven concerto cycle

Chang Tou Liang, 23rd October

Love fills the air as two Carl Nielsen cantatas are premiered in Singapore under Michał Nesterowicz.

****1

Dances of reinvention: Măcelaru and the ONF at the Enescu Festival

Edward Sava-Segal, 19th September

Venturing into Gershwin, Rudolf Buchbinder joins an Orchestre National de France programme at the George Enescu International Festival marked by surprises.

****1

Perfectly weighted conversation: Szeps-Znaider, Capuçon and Buchbinder

Charlotte Gardner, 11th November

Three become one as Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Gautier Capuçon and Rudolf Buchbinder bring Schubert to London.

****1

Buchbinder glows in New York Beethoven

Susan Stempleski, 4th January

The Austrian pianist’s expressive and elegant interpretation of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto is the highlight in a New York Philharmonic program of classics of the German Romantic repertoire.

***11

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Sarah Batschelet

Sarah Batschlelet, long based in Switzerland, took a degree in Art History from Smith College, Northampton, Massachuetts, and lives as a freelance writer and editor near Zurich.