Jerusalem's International Chamber Music Festival

By Alexandra Ivanoff, 07 September 2016

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Reviewed at YMCA: Mary Nathaniel Hall, Jerusalem on 3 September 2016

Kodály, Duo for violin and cello, Op.7

Leef, Yearning, for clarinet and string quartet (première)

Chopin, Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.65

Liszt, Songs

Bartók, Piano Quintet

Chen Halevi, Clarinet

Alexander Sitkovetsky, Violin

Daniel Austrich, Violin

Hartmut Rohde, Viola

Tim Park, Cello

Edgar Moreau, Cello

Plamena Mangova, Piano

Marina Prudenskaya, Mezzo-soprano

Nelson Goerner, Piano

Mihaela Martin, Violin

Nobuko Imai, Viola

Pablo Ferrández, Cello

Nelson Goerner shines with the CBSO and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody

Robert Gainer, 9th April

The CBSO present the work of three European émigré composers of the 1930s and 40s, who reimagined their musical influences with contrasting approaches and results.

****1

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

Mark Pullinger, 30th June

Martha Argerich gives a rare solo performance in the final programme of her festival, performing movements from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons for the very first time.

Michael Volle leads the musical potpourri in Hamburg

Zenaida des Aubris, 29th June

The Martha Argerich Festival minus Martha Argerich on this occasion, but ending with a Russian pièce de résistance.

***11

Nelson Goerner plays Mozart, Schumann and Schubert at Wigmore Hall

Sam Wigglesworth, 11th September

How radical can an exposition repeat be? Well, in the hands of Schubert, very radical indeed, it turns out. The sheer scale of the Molto moderato which opens his final piano sonata means that by the time the opening material returns a huge swathe of time has passed, so much so that each re-encountered phrase is seen in the light of all that happened in the mean time.

**111

The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder: Beethoven 6

Rohan Shotton, 19th January

The Pastoral Symphony is perhaps an optimistic choice for January in Manchester, but for a short while all memory of the deluge outside evaporated in the Bridgewater Hall.Olivier Messiaen’s suite L’Ascension opened the concert with serene, otherworldly modality in a masterfully sculpted brass chorale.

Canónico programa de la OSG con Nelson Goerne y Hankyeol Yoon

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 6th February

Hankyeol Yoon tomó la batuta al frente de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia en un programa de obras exigentes, a la par que archiconocidas, con un resultado variable.

****1

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Alexandra Ivanoff

Alexandra Ivanoff is an American journalist who, after singing for five seasons with the San Francisco Opera, lived for eight years in Istanbul, where she began her career as a music journalist with Time Out magazine and Today's Zaman newspaper in that city. After one year in Berlin and now in Budapest, she reviews from various cities and festivals in Europe, as well as Istanbul, New York, and Los Angeles. She has degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music in NY and Yale University Graduate School of Music.

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