Wistful Schubert and Chopin from nonagenarian Pressler

By Sam Jacobson, 26 January 2016

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Reviewed at Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago on 24 January 2016

Mozart, Rondo for Piano in A minor, K511

Schubert, Piano Sonata no. 18 in G major, D.894

Kurtág, Impromptu al ongherese

Debussy, Estampes

Chopin, Mazurka in B flat minor, Op.7 no.1

Chopin, Mazurka in F minor, Op.7 no.3

Chopin, Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 no.4

Chopin, Ballade no. 3 in A flat major, Op.47

Chopin, Nocturne in C sharp minor, "Lento Con Gran Espressione", Op. posth, B 49

Menahem Pressler, Piano

Good news from the New World

Kevin Wells, 22nd November

The first performance of the Boston Symphony’s final program for 2016 fell on St Cecilia's Day. The patron saint of music must have been pleased to see the past, the present and the future join hands in a program anchored by two warhorses of the Romantic repertory.

****1

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Menahem Pressler

Cynthia Wilson, 22nd December

Menahem Pressler's début with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Trevor Pinnock at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. Cynthia Wilson reviews.

*****

Oxford Philomusica with Menahem Pressler: Mendelssohn and Mozart

Julia Savage, 4th August

The Oxford International Piano Festival comprises a two-week long series of workshops and concerts, hosted by Oxford Philomusica and featuring pianists of international esteem, among them Andreas Haefliger and Sergei Babayan. It was Menahem Pressler, now in his 88th year, who gave the closing piano masterclasses and performed in the closing concert at the Sheldonian Theatre.

***11

Mozart, amour de vieillesse

Beate Langenbruch, 24th September

Lyon touché par un musicien d’exception : Menahem Pressler en concert à l’Auditorium

*****

Matthias Goerne et Menahem Pressler

Julie Jozwiak, 2nd July

Le 2 juillet au Wigmore Hall, le baryton Matthias Goerne et le pianiste Menahem Pressler présentaient un programme Schumann à l'ambiance très intimiste devant une salle comble. Une escapade musicale bouleversante.

****1

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

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Sam Jacobson

Sam Jacobson has been writing for Bachtrack since 2015 and is currently in Pittsburgh, having previously lived throughout the Midwest. A keen traveler, he endeavors to see all the great orchestras and opera houses across the US and abroad. Outside of music, he works as a software engineer. He also maintains a blog which can be read here.

Wistful Schubert and Chopin from nonagenarian Pressler in Chicago