LA Phil Presents Perahia in Recital - Tuesday, October 13, 8pm at Walt Disney
Concert Hall

Featured Artist:
Murray Perahia, piano

Program:
BACH  Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830
BEETHOVEN  Piano Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109
SCHUMANN  Kinderszenen, Op. 15
CHOPIN  Etude in A-flat, Op. 25, No. 1, "Aeolian Harp"
CHOPIN  Mazurka in A-flat, Op. 59, No. 2
CHOPIN  Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 50, No. 3
CHOPIN  Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Op. 59, No. 3
CHOPIN  Scherzo No. 4 in E, Op. 54

For tickets and information, visit LAPhil.com.

Link to program page: <http://www.laphil.com/tickets/program-detail.cfm?id=1934>

LA Phil Presents - Andsnes & Tetzlaff in Recital

Thursday, January 29, 8:00 PM at Walt Disney Concert Hall



Link to program page:
http://www.laphil.com/tickets/performance_detail.cfm?id=3658

For one night only, see two leading musicians of our time, as they
perform a program featuring masterworks by Mozart, Brahms and
Schubert in the intimate setting of WDCH.

Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
323.850.2000
________________________________________
Featured Artists:

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
________________________________________

PROGRAM:

Mozart: Sonata in F, K. 377
Brahms: Sonata No. 3
Janácek: Sonata
Schubert: Rondo in B minor


Visit LAPhil.com for tickets today.

LA Phil Presents - András Schiff Plays Beethoven – Wednesday, October
15, 8:00 PM at Walt Disney Concert Hall

Featured Artists:
András Schiff, piano

Program:

Beethoven: Sonata No. 16 in G, Op. 31, No. 1
Beethoven: Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, "Tempest"
Beethoven: Sonata No. 18 in E-flat, Op. 31, No. 3
Beethoven: Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53, "Waldstein"


Brilliant interpreter and virtuoso András Schiff continues his
monumental cycle of all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas in a recital
that includes the "Tempest," the "Waldstein," and more.

For tickets and information visit LAPhil.com.

Link to program page:
http://www.laphil.com/tickets/performance_detail.cfm?id=3592

I can't remember what email address Gila Goldstein uses here,
but re the now annual Martha Argerich Project at Lugano
(with audio online for the past few years for most offerings),
the Project webpage for 2008 is
    http://www.rtsi.ch/trasm/argerich/welcome.cfm?lng=1

    And you can see a link with her name below the header.

Some of you know Gila who's been based in New York.

Her page at the festival is at
   http://www.rtsi.ch/trasm/argerich/welcome.cfm?lng=1&ids=491&idc=26513

For those you attending the festival
1. Her solo recital is at Church of St. Rocco
    on June 13 at 6:30pm

2. She'll be the pianist for Martinu's Sonatina (with clarinet Marek
Denemark) at RSI Auditorium Stelio Molo
    on June 17 at 8:30pm

And,
3. Not listed under her name but under the duo-name
    G. Goldstein - F. Piemontesi

    She'll be one of the duo pianists out of 7 pairs
   who will play in Weissenberg's "La Fugue" -- which is
   billed as a "commedia musicale" for which there is a narrator
   as well as 5 singers.  Should be fun.  Argerich will be playing
   in one of the duos.
    RSI Auditorium Stelio Molo
    June 26 at 8:30pm

I hope some of our members will report on the various recitals
from June 9 through the 28th.

   - Andrys

Dear All,

The website of the German radio SWR offers Elena Kuschnerova's 2001
live performance of Prokofiev's 7th sonata as a free download during
this week ending on 25 May. Here is the link:

http://www.swr.de/swr2/musik/musikstueck/-/id=2937886/nid=2937886/did...

Enjoy "Musikstück der Woche". This recording was done by SWR in the
Weinbrennersaal des Kurhauses in Baden-Baden, it was a recital that
also contained Brahms - Paganini Variationen, II.

Best,

Dmitry

LA Phil Presents -- Stephane Deneve with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic - March 6-8 at Walt Disney Concert Hall

Featured Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Stéphane Denčve, conductor
Frank Braley, piano
Eric Le Sage, piano
Stephane Deneve, the exciting and fast-rising young conductor who has
a special affinity for French music, leads a program of Ravel and
Roussel.

For information, log on to LAPhil.com:

http://www.laphil.com/tickets/performance_detail.cfm?id=3151

From today's NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/arts/music/10kape.html
The Found Treasures of a Great Pianist
By DANIEL J. WAKIN

When the 31-year-old pianist William Kapell, one of the last century's
great geniuses of the keyboard, was killed in a plane crash in 1953,
he was returning from a concert tour in Australia. Now, a cache of
privately made recordings from that tour has surfaced, a find that
music lovers are calling an incalculable treasure, given Kapell's
legendary status and dozen-year flicker of a career.

"It's as if somebody were to find a dozen new paintings by Rembrandt
or a lost film of Charlie Chaplin," said Daniel Guss, director of the
classical catalog for BMG Music, the successor to RCA, for which
Kapell recorded.

[ For the rest of the article, please visit the New York Times web site. ]

ANNOUNCING a NEW Yahoo! Group dedicated to one of the greatest
pianists of the 20th Century, Arthur Rubinstein:   "Homage to Arthur
Rubinstein"

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/homagetoarthurrubinstein/

This site has just opened and already has a wide variety of
photographs and other Rubinstein items of interest.  Hopefully, it
will also grow into an active, viable forum for discussions relating
to this fascinating man and his music.   Thank You!

makes a brief and unexpected appearance playing in Sansa, a recent
French film directed by Siegfried (full name). See
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0363056/combined
Ivry Gitlis plays a supporting role in the film as a conductor and
violinist named Monsieur Click. As violinist he and Argerich perform
(in Tokyo) a brief excerpt from the Fauré sonata - and we also hear a
few bars of the Kreutzer. The film showed last fall at the Toronto
International Film Festival, and will be screened in March at the
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at New York's Walter Readed Theater.
It's a French-Spanish-German coproduction, so it will be shown in
those countries at least, but so far it has not been acquired for
North American distribution.

Allan Gotthelf writes:

"Many will know of Marston Records new method of production of
distribution: CD's are proposed for future release, content
determined, and liner materials produced.  Then the prospective CD is
listed on their website (http://www.marstonrecords.com), and
subscriptions
to the CD solicited.  ONLY those CDs for which there are commitments
to 150 copies are actually produced.

"Currently proposed for the piano: an unreleased live Bolet Chopin,
and vol. 7 of the complete Josef Hofmann, concert (w/orchestra)
performances.

"The Hofmann has reached its 150, but the Bolet has not.  It is
decision time.  I would urge lovers of Bolet to go to the Marston
site, and sign up.  I urge you for one reason:  I've myself signed up
(indeed, for two copies) and very much want to have and hear the
Bolet!!

Best,
Allan Gotthelf"

Boulez, Pollini launch concerts [Japan Tour - Pollini concerts at

Yomiuri Shimbun   [ Oct 24, 2002]
  http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20021024woa5.htm

Pierre Boulez and Maurizio Pollini, two of the most celebrated
artists in classical music today, gave a joint press conference
in Tokyo to launch respective concert series on Monday.

Composer-conductor Boulez started a tour of Japan with the
London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), with Pollini appearing as the
soloist in Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 1. The performance also
marked the opening of the Pollini Project, a series of concerts
featuring music from the 16th to 20th centuries.

  [ 16th ?  Obviously not piano music  ;)  ]

"It's a daring enterprise," Pollini, 60, said of putting music
of different ages in the same program. "For me to go out from my
normal life of a concert pianist to making programs has given me
great joy and a great opportunity to study and to have a
relationship with music that I didn't know or knew very
superficially."

   Rest of article at URL above

[Bottom note from article re
  POLLINI EVENTS IN JAPAN]

Maurizio Pollini will play on Oct. 25 with various artists and
Oct. 28, 31, Nov. 4 with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, 7 p.m. at
Kioi Hall, Tokyo; Nov. 6 with Ensemble Wien-Berlin and Accardo
Quartet and Nov. 18 with the Royal Concertgebow Orchestra, 7
p.m. at Suntory Hall in Akasaka, Tokyo. He will give recitals
there on Nov. 13 and 22, 7 p.m. (03) 5749-9960

Dear Great Pianists group,

did anyone else catch the Reading [ England ] recital by Piotr
Anderszewski on
6/October/2002?

Although people seem to be starting to take notice of Anderszewski,
with the prize and everything, the hall was still far from full.
I find it hard to understand why people are not falling over
themselves to hear this pianist.
I made a 500 mile round trip for the concert, and felt it was
comfortably worth the effort.

After a very fine Diabelli in the first half (who else would START
with the Diabelli!?) we got 50 minutes of top class Bach in the
second half. The published programme said 3 Preludes and Fugues
(Bk 2 numbers 21-3) and Partita number 1. In fact he replaced the
Partita with English Suite number 6 - a very generous swap!

There are very few pianists around these days who can approach
Anderszewski's level of concentration. And he certainly knows what
he is doing.

So why are people not interested? This is a great artist!

Pete Taylor

[ Thanks to Andrys for this information. ]

This pianist will be playing concerts in Japan in the next week
and a member in that area might want to catch it.

   See the last paragraph for his Japan schedule.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20021010woa6.htm


Pianist Dang goes off in new direction
Yukiko Kishinami Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer


For the first time in his many visits to Japan, Vietnamese
pianist Dang Thai Son's tour, which runs through Oct. 20,
includes no Chopin work.


"It's a kind of new decision for me, a change of my image a bit,
although it's not that I won't play Chopin any more," said Dang,
who became the first Asian winner in the prestigious
International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in
1980.


The program opens with Litany by Toru Takemitsu.


"I find this piece very special," Dang said of Litany. "They
have two movements. The first movement is very obvious, we can
listen to an old Japanese song. It was written in memory of his
friend (Arts administrator Michael Vyner), so the feeling is
very dark. It reminds me of noh theater--nothing spectacular or
dynamic, but every movement, every gesture is slow and so
meaningful. He changes color and intonation and makes it very
sophisticated.


"The second movement was composed about 30 years after the first
movement, and I see the evolution of his (Takemitsu's)
creativity. The language, the imagination and the color are so
different. The first movement is an emotion for the dead, and
the second movement depicts a kind of a life after death," Dang
said.


The piece takes about 10 minutes, which was another deciding
factor for the pianist to include it in the program.


"The audience of modern music is very particular. People going
to normal classical music concerts find it not easy to listen to
a program heavy with modern music," he said.


The rest of the program is made up of piano masterpieces from
the Romantic and Impressionist eras: six pieces from
Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, Two Legends by Liszt and
Debussy's 12 Preludes, Book II.


Born in 1957 to a poet father and pianist mother, Dang started
taking piano lessons at age 4 from his mother, who at the time
was teaching at the Hanoi Conservatory. The Vietnam War caused
the family extreme hardships, but, with the help of Russian
pianist Izaak Katz, who recognized the young Dang's rare gift,
Dang was able to go and study at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky
Conservatory in 1977. Three years later, he won in the Chopin
competition, which takes place every five years.


Since then, Dang has been hailed as the best pianist to come
from his part of the world.


"If people know that I come from Southeast Asia, it makes me
very proud, but I don't want to make it any excuse, you see. So
I try not to look at difficulties behind me and all the
background that was not very easy," he said.


He was the only non-Polish pianist who was invited to play at a
special concert in 1999 in Warsaw that commemorated the 150th
anniversary of Chopin's death.


For more than 10 years now, Dang has been living in Montreal,
where his 84-year-old mother also lives. Yet his busy tour and
teaching schedule keeps him out of the city about two-thirds of
the year.


"Always touring is not good because you need time to recover and
make a new repertory for the next season," he said. "Usually I
take two months per year to do so. For concert activities, I
mainly spend time in both Canada and France. In Paris, there are
more concerts, and the artistic life there is really exciting.
But Canada offers me a big space and a good condition for
living. When I close my door quietly and practice piano, I
prefer Montreal. It's a kind of balance."


Before moving to Montreal, Dang lived in Japan from 1987 to
1991, teaching at Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.


"My life in general is very much tied with Japan. I have been
touring here for 22 years," he said.


He also goes back to Vietnam every year to hold concerts and
give master classes at conservatories in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh
City.


"Classical music came to Vietnam in the beginning of the 20th
century, during French colonial rule. We have an opera theater
from that time, and many foreign artists, mostly French, used to
visit Vietnam before the war," he explained.


"Today we have in Hanoi two music schools and three symphony
orchestras. The last five or six years, we also saw many
important musicians, such as (Mstislav) Rostropovich, (Vladimir)
Ashkenazy and the likes, coming to Vietnam."


Earlier, during his month-long tour of Japan, Dang performed
with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the baton
of Sakari Oramo, brilliantly playing Rachmaninoff's Variations
on a Theme by Paganini. The day of the concert, Oct. 1, Tokyo
was hit by a strong typhoon, but luckily the humid air did not
affect his performance or instrument.


"Perhaps it takes more hours to affect the piano. I like humid
air, which is like my home country, but to play when it is humid
is very difficult," he said.


Dang Thai Son performs on Oct. 11, 7 p.m. at Oji Hall in Ginza,
Tokyo, (03) 3567-9990; Oct. 13, 2 p.m. at Miyazaki Prefectural
Arts Center in Miyazaki, (0985) 28-3210; Oct. 15, 7 p.m. at Kioi
Hall in Tokyo, (03) 5749-9960; Oct. 16, 7 p.m. at Izumi Hall in
Osaka, (06) 6341-0547; Oct. 18, 7 p.m. at Sapporo Concert Hall
Kitara in Sapporo, (011) 261-2388; Oct. 20, 3 p.m. at Shizuoka
Ongakukan AOI in Shizuoka, (054) 251-2200

Nigel Nettheim writes:

'I have placed on my web site, indicated below, a discography /
rollography of Vladimir de Pachmann. Please click on "de Pachmann"
and then "Discography / Rollography".

'A useful feature is that the reader can sort on any column by
clicking on its header (something that of course cannot be done in a
paper publication).

'I will greatly appreciate comments and corrections by email directly
to me (see "Contact the author" near the top of the web page).'

Nigel Nettheim
204A Beecroft Rd, Cheltenham NSW 2119,  Australia
Web site: http://users.bigpond.net.au/nettheim

Nigel Nettheim writes:


"I have placed on my web site an article, 'A Musical Microscope
Applied to the Piano Playing of Vladimir de Pachmann,' which I
recently completed. A few brief sound examples are included. I
thought some members of this group might find the article of
interest. Here is the Abstract:

"Excerpts from a recording by the famous early pianist Vladimir de
Pachmann are measured and analysed. Conclusions are drawn on his
approach to piano playing. A comparison with the playing of the same
music by several other performers highlights Pachmann's originality.
The graphical method of displaying the performing nuances is
apparently novel, and may be found useful in research and pedagogy.

"The article may be viewed at
http://users.bigpond.net.au/nettheim/pachmic/microsc.htm

Nigel Nettheim
204A Beecroft Rd, Cheltenham NSW 2119,  Australia
Web site: http://users.bigpond.net.au/nettheim

Valour writes:


Event : Concert in London
(Sudden Change of Programme)

=======================

Date: Tuesday, 25 September, 2001

Venue : Royal Festival Hall, London

Philharmonia Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
Nikolai Lugansky, piano

=========================

Programme:

Mussorgsky;
A Night on the Bare Mountain (Original version)

Johannes Brahms;
Piano Concerto No.1

Jean Sibelius; Symphony No.2

======================

This replaces the original concert, which was to feature Yefim
Bronfman as the piano soloist, and Esa Pekka Salonen as the conductor

====================

For tickets, telephone :
0207 960 4242

Or visit : http://www.sbc.org.uk/

Valour writes:

'Dear friends,

'On 7th September, 2001, Nikolai Lugansky played the Prokofiev Piano
Concerto No. 3 in Brussels; The National Orchestra of Belgium had
chosen him to play at the opening concert of the season. A vivid
review of this concert was published in the Belgian newspaper, "Le
Soir". An English translation of the article may now be found on the
Lugansky website:

"A Cat named Lugansky"  http://Lugansky.homestead.com/files/Cat.htm

================================

'Lugansky's concert plans have recently been updated. They are
available for viewing at:
http://Lugansky.homestead.com/files/Schedule_06_01.htm

'Lugansky's solo recordings for Erato(Chopin Etudes, Rachmaninov
Preludes & Moments Musicaux) have been phenomenally successful
throughout the world. Unfortunately, there will be no further
collaborations between Warner Classics and Lugansky; the Paris office
of Erato was shut down earlier this year, and Warner Classics has
observed a general decline in the classical music market in recent
years.

'Lugansky recorded an all-Chopin disc in April 2001, but the fate of
this recording is now uncertain. Lugansky had planned to record an
all-Schumann disc in late September; this has been cancelled.

'If you have any thoughts on these new developments, or on any topic
relevant to classical music, your input would be welcome at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ecouter

Valour

The Nikolai Lugansky Web Site: http://Lugansky.homestead.com
Guestbook: http://messages.to/Lugansky

Nigel Nettheim writes:


"I've put some material about the interesting pianist Maryla Jonas
(1911-1959) on my web site at:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/nettheim/jonas/jonaindx.htm

"The 1947 story in Liberty magazine is surely one of the most amazing
of all stories about pianists. The sequel is very sad.

"Please respond to me directly (I'm not a member of the classical-
pianists discussion group)."

Nigel Nettheim
204A Beecroft Rd, Cheltenham NSW 2119,  Australia
Web site: http://users.bigpond.net.au/nettheim

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Albert Frantz wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I was quite shocked this afternoon to find that Jörg Demus's 1968-70
> recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier (http://mp3.com/wtc) went to No. 1 on
> the classical charts, and is now competing with the likes of Elvis Presley
> and Madonna!  I really can't say why there is sudden interest, except to say
> that it looks like quality is paying off.  Jörg is especially grateful for
> this new opportunity for worldwide distribution, and sends his listeners his
> sincerest thanks.

This is because 2 days ago, mp3.com sent an electronic newsletter out
recommending people listen to this set and quoting the IPQ article by
Farhan Malik calling it the most consistently satisfying set.

It gave links, and the newsletter goes out to, supposedly, at least one
million members who opt to get the newsletter!

  - Andrys

Gyorgy Sajo writes:

'Regarding the Arthur Rubinstein discography, I doubt seriously its
legitimacy. The discography is nor less or more than the one compiled
by Donald Manildi, and issued in Harvey Sachs' book: "Arthur
Rubinstein. A Life" (published in 1995), only somewhat rearranged and
translated into Serbo-Kroatian.

'I think it is both morally questionable and an infringement of Mr
Manildi's copyrights to publish it on the internet as being "Compiled
by Aleksandar Gatalica". (It would be even more serious infringement,
if Mr Gatalica also published it in his book under his own name,
which may or may not be the case - I have of course not seen his
book.)

'Furthermore, the otherwise excellent discography is somewhat out of
date (including only recordings published before April 1995, thus
also ommitting BMG's 94 CD's large Rubinstein Collection, together
with other new discoveries and reissuings), so it is a bit of an
overstatement to call it "complete" today. It also includes some
errors which Mr Manildi was kind to correct for me.

'I think it would be appropriate to forward the above information
both to the subscribers of the Great Pianists lists and to Mr
Gatalica. I'm sending a copy of this mail to Mr Manildi.'

Going through old emails, I came across this message.
Please note that the pages linked below are in Serbian.
I hope they are useful.

- Paul

"I am Aleksandar Gatalica, music critic from Belgrade. Recently I
have finished the book "Rubinstein vs. Horowitz and vice versa" and
added to book the complete discographies of Vladimir Horowitz and
Arthur Rubinstein.  So I offer as a free offer my complete
discographies on e-address

http://solair.eunet.yu/~gatalica/realrubindiscography.htm
  (for Complete Arthur Rubinstein discography), and

http://solair.eunet.yu/~gatalica/discography.htm
  (for complete Vladimir Horowitz discography updated with November
1999).

  It could occur as an curiousum that my discographies is on Serbian
language, but it is, surely, just in translated names of small circle
of named compositions. Marks for Minor and Major is in German
transcriptions. Thus, A Minor is wrote as "in a", A Major as "in A",
A flat Major, as "in As", A flat Minor as "in as", D sharp Minor as
"in dis", D sharp Major as "in Dis", D flat Major as "in Des", H
Major as "in H", H flat Minor as "in b", H flat Major as "in B", etc.
Hoping that you will find interesting my discographies, I send you
the best regards,

  Aleksandar Gatalica."

Jacques Leiser writes:

"Can you tell me anything about Egon Petri?  He passed on in Oakland,
CA in 1962 and someone asked me if I knew how to track down his
daughter and heirs. Perhaps you might have some clues."

Can anyone help?

Nigel Nettheim writes:

I have placed an article "The Fairy-tale Career of Maggie Oakey:
Little Mudgee girl became rage of Continental concert platform" on my
web site, indicated below (click on "de Pachmann" and then on "1961").

Maggie Oakey was the wife of Vladimir de Pachmann, and had a notable
career of her own. This is a newspaper article which would be very
hard to find elsewhere.

I think those who are seriously interested in de Pachmann will find
the article interesting, while others will find it an entertaining
story.

(Any feedback would be best sent to me; I'm not a member of the
Classical Pianists discussion group.)

-----------------------
Nigel Nettheim
204A Beecroft Rd, Cheltenham NSW 2119 Australia
Phone +61-2-9868-4005
Web site: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/nettheim>

Valour writes:

"There is a new webpage dedicated to Yundi Li, the young Chinese
pianist who won the Warsaw International Chopin Competition 2000. The
page contains links to Li's biography ,photographs, multimedia clips,
press articles and a discussion forum.

"The address is : http://lugansky.homestead.com/YL.html

=========================

"Some additional news items relating to Nikolai Lugansky:

"From 19-22 April, 2001, Lugansky will be at the Teldec studios in
Berlin, recording the 24 Chopin Preludes, 2 Nocturnes, and 2 Ballades.

"Nikolai Lugansky's 29th birthday is coming soon. Greetings may be
left in the Guestbook. For more information, contact me by e-mail.

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank Boris Derman for
helping me to translate and edit an interesting Russian article about
Lugansky. Here is an excerpt:

=================================

"I was fortunate enough to listen to, observe, reflect upon and even
to talk to the greatest performer of the twentienth century,
Sviatoslav Richter. And it seems to me that Lugansky is a person who
has the potential to go the way of Richter.  I bear in mind his
capacity for a holistic perception of art, the attitude towards it as
the undeniable manifestation of life. I speak of "the Richterian
way" with reference to Lugansky because in him, spontaneity lives
in his phenomenal natural endowments and enormous capacity to work,
his desire to study music, to be immersed in it, to know it and to
convey it to other people not for commercial reasons but out of a
genuine wish to serve."

=================================

"The full article may be found at :

http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/After_the_applause.htm


"Valour"

Fans of impossible piano music must not miss a review of the new
recording of Godowsky's arrangement of the Brahms Symphonies for left
hand alone, at:

http://www.classicstoday.com/

- Paul

Valour writes:


Several announcements and news items:

=====================================

Nikolai Lugansky has been awarded a Diapason d'Or for his new CD of
Rachmaninov Preludes & Moments Musicaux. Details are in the March
issue of Diapason magazine.

=====================================

8 April 2001 :

On RADIO CLASSIQUE, FRANCE -
There will be a BROADCAST of a concert
recorded on 4 February 2001 in Paris.
TIME: 16:30

======================================

28- 29 April 2001:

Lugansky will performa a recital and a concert at
the "Folles Journees" festival of Russian music in Lisbon, Portugal.

======================================

May 2001:

The new Lugansky CD of Rachmaninov Preludes and
Moments Musicaux will be released in the USA.

=======================================

Nikolai Lugansky's tour plans have recently been revised :

http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/Schedule_to_2003.htm

=======================================
=======================================


Articles recently added to the site:


"A lifetime is not enough"

- a detailed interview in which Lugansky talks about
his teacher Tatiana Nikoleva, his other musical heroes,
his repertoire and his immediate plans:

http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/Russian_Thought_2_01.htm

-------------------------------------------

"Inimitable Lugansky"

- a review of Lugansky's performance of the Rach 3
in Belgrade Yugoslavia . (Translated).

http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/Belgrade_00.htm

-------------------------------------------

"Music for the composer"

- a review of a Lugansky recital in Sarov, Russia.
Translated from the original Russian.

http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/Sarov_00.htm

------------------------------------------

"A whole orchestra at his fingertips" :

- a review of the latest Lugansky CD. (Translated from French)

http://lugansky.homestead.com/files/fingertips.htm

--------------------------------------------

Two more reviews of the latest Lugansky CD (in French)-
http://lugansky.homestead.com/32316.html

=======================================
=======================================

A sound clip that was previously malfunctioning is now repaired:

Rachmaninov Etude-Tableau Op.33 No.5
http://lugansky.homestead.com/Moderato.html

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Il y a une liste francophone pour discuter
la musique de Nikolai Lugansky.

Cherchez : http://www.egroups.fr

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Albert Frantz writes:

"Greetings, friends!

"The new 48, recorded in 2000, is as of this very moment online in its
entirety.  To appear on CD within the next months, Demus opted to
prerelease it online.  Further, the entire recording, all four CDs,
is offered for free download!  The new performance is so emotional I
was in tears as I listened, and there have already been comments
saying that it is 'beyond belief,' that others have had the same
reactions.  Stay tuned, recordings of selected Preludes and Fugues on
organ, harpsichord and clavichord are on their way.

"The new site is: http://mp3.com/wtc2000

"The 1970 recording is also available for comparison, and I think
listeners will be astounded at the differences:

http://mp3.com/wtc

		 Thanks,
			 Albert Frantz"

Michael R. Davis writes:

"Members of this group may be interested to know that there are two
new CD releases now available devoted to the art of Shura Cherkassky
and Ethel Leginska.   The double disc set of Cherkassky is devoted to
his famous 1940's recordings and the Leginska disc includes her
complete Columbia recordings recorded from 1926-1928.  Both of these
great pianist's historic releases are available for the first time on
Ivory Classics  (http://www.IvoryClassics.com).    The recorded
performances on these discs are not available on CD anywhere else.
Ivory Classics have given both discs extensive liner notes and many
rare photos.  A must for all pianophiles."

The Rachmaninov Institute will hold the Advanced International Summer
Masterclasses between July 31st and August 14th for pianists,
flutists, balilaika and domra players.  Includes intensive 4 hour long
classes every day, performances in Rachmaninov Hall at the institue
and the Ivanovka Museum (Sergei Rachmaninov's summer estate.  Classes
are held with accompanists.

Professors:
            Piano:  Alexander Merzhanov (Russia)
                    Alexander Alexandrov (Russia)
                    Boris Luvov (Germany)
            Flute:  Terry Kallenberg (USA)
                    Sarah Bassingthwaite (USA)
                    Alexander Eppler (USA)(repair workshop)

            Balilaika: Andrei Gorbatchov (Russia)

            Domra:  Alexander Tsygankov  (Russia)

Costs: Performers: $500, auditors: $400 includes hotel and all meals.
family and friends are welcome to join the students for this unique
opportunity to combine hard work with relaxation in the heartland of
Sergei Rachmaninov.

See: http://www.rachmaninov.tmb.ru for complete details.

or contact:

Teresa Kallenberg
Coordinator of International Programs
Rachmaninov Institue
87 Sovetskaya Street
392000 Tambov, Russia
7075-272-5220
fax: 3383
email: tgmpi@...

Donald Dougherty writes:

"Speaking of Brendel, I have a copy of his newest recording "Schubert
Piano Sonatas D575, D959 & 960.  These haven't to my knowledge been
released yet in the U.S., but will be later this month. The number is
Philips456 573-2.

"These are extraordinary performances of these great, late Schubert
sonatas.  All performances are live, given at various venues over the
past three years. I would recommend them to all Schubert lovers and
all admirers of Brendel.  His interpretations of these works have
matured greatly over the years."