Gloria Cheng: Contemporary piano music at the University of Maryland

By Simon Chin, 16 July 2012

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Reviewed at University of Maryland: Clarice Smith PAC: Gildenhorn Recital Hall, College Park on 13 July 2012

Cage, Dream

Saariaho, Prelude

Birtwistle, Betty Freeman: Her Tango

Knussen, Ophelia's Last Dance

Liptak, Starlight

Taylor, Seven Memorials: Satellite

Boulez, Une page d'éphéméride

Messiaen, Prélude no. 5: les sons impalpables du rêve

Salonen, Dichotomie

Rands, Twelve Preludes (selections)

Gloria Cheng, Piano

Stockhausen, Cage, and Bettison at Green Umbrella concert

Ted Ayala, 10th April

Dangle the term “modern music” in front of your average classical music listener and chances are their reaction will range anywhere from polite indifference to outright bile-spewing hatred.

*****

Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor.

*****

Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

****1

A special relationship renewed: Leonard Slatkin returns to Prague

Frank Kuznik, 16th April

Leonard Slatkin returns to the Prague Symphony Orchestra with one of his own pieces, a Schubert tribute that steals the show.

****1

Kinan Azmeh offers a sampling of delights with St Luke’s

No’a L. bat Miri, 15th April

As part of St Luke’s ‘Visionary Sounds’ series, Kinan Azmeh joined the chamber ensemble to play a variety of his own compositions.

****1

Carlo Rizzi brings Respighi’s Rome to Birmingham

Robert Gainer, 15th April

Carlos Rizzi believes that Puccini’s orchestrations are good enough to stand alone, without their vocal lines, but can the drama compete with the romance of Respighi?

****1

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Simon Chin

Simon is a writer based in Washington DC with a background in English literature and theatre. A lapsed pianist, Simon is a graduate of Harvard College, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Particular interests include piano, opera and Stephen Sondheim.