Brahms' Ballades the highlight of Chiara Opalio's Gstaad recital

By Edward Sava-Segal, 21 July 2021

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Reviewed at Saanen Church, Saanen on 19 July 2021

Beethoven, 10 Variations for piano on "La stessa, la stessissima", WoO 73

Schubert, Impromptu no. 2 in E flat major, D.899

Bach C.P.E., Keyboard Sonata in A major, H.186

Brahms, 4 Ballades for piano, Op.10

Schubert, Impromptu no. 4 in A flat major, D.899

Chiara Opalio, Piano

Spectacular views and musical serenades at the Davos Festival

Sarah Batschelet, 7th August

If ever there were an original programme at one of Switzerland’s esteemed summer festivals, this Festivalwanderung was it.

*****

Davos Festival celebrates the senses

Sarah Batschelet, 3rd August

The annual Davos Festival offers a platform to gifted young musicians from around the world to explore and exchange musical genres in a stellar alpine landscape.

****1

Kissin, Bell and Isserlis: remembrance and loss at Carnegie Hall

Edward Sava-Segal, 31st May

Solomon Rosowsky, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky form a matinee programme whose deeper connections gradually came into focus.

****1

Jurowski marks Hans Werner Henze’s centenary at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 31st May

Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin deliver a lean, razor-sharp exploration of captivity and survival, balancing Beethoven’s and Brahms’ structural clarity against the devastating, high-fidelity distortion of Henze’s Ninth Symphony.

****1

Mischievous Pan at Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s French May

Christopher Halls, 30th May

French clarinettist Raphaël Sévère unearths beauty in Nielsen’s concerto and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta impress in two settings of Pan’s antics at the French May Festival.

****1

Alsop conducts a substitute Marsalis symphony at Carnegie Hall

David Wolfson, 29th May

The premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ Symphony no. 5 is postponed, substituted by selections from his Jungle Symphony, along with a disappointing Beethoven’s Seventh at Carnegie Hall.

***11

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.