Buchbinder opens the season at the Vienna Konzerthaus with a night of brilliance

By Chanda VanderHart, 27 September 2013

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Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Vienna on 25 September 2013

Mozart, 12 Variations in C major on "Ah vous dirai-je, maman", K265 (K300e)

Schubert, Four Impromptus, D.935

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 13 in E flat major "quasi una fantasia", Op.27 no.1

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 14 in C sharp minor "Moonlight", Op.27 no.2

Rudolf Buchbinder, Piano

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

Rudolf Buchbinder casts a Beethoven spell in Singapore

Chang Tou Liang, 9th December

Echt-Viennese Beethoven interpreter Rudolf Buchbinder enthrals the Singapore audience.

*****

Blistering Buchbinder, trenchant Järvi at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 16th August

Sometimes artists surprise, but in a wholly positive way: nothing remotely bland about Buchbinder's approach to Beethoven's C minor concerto and a Tchaikovsky 1 streets ahead of Järvi's recent recording.

*****

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Chanda VanderHart

Dr. Chanda VanderHart is a pianist, musicologist and creative who lives, works and plays in Vienna, Austria. For more on Chanda and her projects, click here.