Svitlana Azarova - Chronometer
Tetyana Kravchenko (Piano)
Svitlana Azarova - As for the clot it is slowly...
Sergejus Kirsenko (Tuba)
Alireza Khajavi - Mozhdeh
Alireza Khajavi (Duo)
Alireza Khajavi - The Song without love
Alireza Khajavi (Piano)
Johannes Brahms - Scherzo - Sonatensatz for violin & piano
Elena Kuschnerova (Piano)
Lev Gelbard (Violin)
Alexander Lokshin - Prelude and Theme with Variations (1982)
Elena Kuschnerova (Piano)
Mikhail Kollontay - 7 Romantic Ballades Op.2 bis - 4-The Spectres
Elena Kuschnerova (Piano)
Getting Caught Up in the Music
Submitted by jsdubois015 on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 17:49
I was thinking again today about Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and what I had written about it in my last post. I remembered some time ago I read a short little anecdote about the Fifth Symphony. It was from a collection of Robert Schumann's critical writings. Unfortunately, I don't have the book readily available so I'll just paraphrase the story.
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BD: You play quite a bit of music which is non-standard; it’s newer, it’s more difficult. Do you find that you’re getting through to the audiences who either have come for a new piece, or perhaps have come wishing it was all Beethoven and Haydn and Scarlatti?
BD: You mentioned that it’s different playing a concerto and playing solo. How do you divide your career between solo appearances and chamber appearances and concerto appearances?
UO: This year it’s more concertos than anything.
BD: Is that just happenstance?