Extractions: EA: First of all, is his use of Polish dances. Even in the "Second Concerto" there is a mazurka in the third movement. He was the first serious Polish composer to use successfully the dance element in his writing. But beyond this, there is in his music a quality Poles call "zal." It is sort of like "soul," but is actually more a combination of melancholy, sadness, and even pity. It's [a] difficult word to translate, but a lot of people feel it sums up inherent characteristics of the Polish people. Certainly, Chopin believed this. EA: Oh, yes. In that sense, he was probably the first and most original of the Romantics. In his music, he always dealt with the individual rather than the universal. The depth of his expression, however, is so great [that] it becomes universal and touches something in all of us. But basically it is about himself.
Ithaca College News 2001-2002 Volume 25, No. 5 October 14, 2002. Ithaca College Concerts SeriesWill Present pianist emanuel ax. Grammy Award winning pianist http://www.ithaca.edu/publications/news/vol25/25-05/ax.htm
Extractions: Volume 25, No. 5 October 14, 2002 Grammy Award - winning pianist Emanuel Ax will open the yearlong Ithaca College Concerts series "Introduction and Preludes" on Tuesday, October 22, in Ford Hall. The performance will begin at 8:15 p.m. and feature Bach's Partita no. 1; Beethoven's Variations in F major and Variations and Fugue in E-flat Major (the Eroica Variations); and Chopin's Polonaise-Fantasie in A-flat, Three Mazurkas, and Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise. A pre-concert lecture by assistant professor of piano Charis Dimaras is set for 7:30 p.m. in the Iger Lecture Hall. Preferred seating will be held in the concert hall for those attending the lecture. Tickets to the entire three-concert series, which includes performances by violinist Midori and baritone Nathan Gunn, are available by calling 274-3169. Prices for season tickets are as follows: Children, senior citizens, and Ithaca College Students - $24.00
CD REVIEW Brahms Handel Emanuel Ax Click to hear the Theme emanuel ax seems as eager as the I last heard ax some fifteenyears ago where he This recording reveals a pianist who has all the tools http://www.jamesweggreview.org/Reviews_Classical/Brahms_Handel.htm
Extractions: Whatever drew Brahms to Handels eight bars of stately, constrained melody, whose range is limited to an octave and whose notes never stray outside the eight notes of their Bb major home scale, will remain a musicological mystery! But compositionally their very simplicity is ideal for the incredible journey penned by the master variationist of his time. I last heard Ax some fifteen years ago where he tossed off the fiendishly difficult Khachaturian concerto at an American Symphony Conductor (now defunct) under the direction of my mentor Kazuyoshi Akiyama. His mastery of the keyboard was dazzling but at the time he wouldnt have been my first choice for the subtleties and breadth of another piano master. How wrong I can be!
Emanuel Ax: Margaret Throsby's Guest On ABC Classic FM emanuel ax. Thursday 4 July 2002. pianist He is playing the Beethoven Piano ConcertoNo.4 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on 3rd, 5th, 6th and 8th of July and http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/stories/s593989.htm
Artist-Show - The Largest Art Link Site In The World! Piano ax, emanuel highly regarded for his poetic lyricism and brilliant technique.Barenboim, Daniel - official website for the conductor and pianist. http://www.artist-show.com/ArtFields/Music/MuLinks/Classical/Artists/Piano.html
Extractions: Piano Ax, Emanuel - highly regarded for his poetic lyricism and brilliant technique. Barenboim, Daniel - official website for the conductor and pianist. Barrenechea-Cabeza - provides information on this piano duo. Includes bio. and repertoire. Baxtresser, Margaret - explores the enchanting, nature-filled world of Claude Debussy and the Impressionist Painters. Beataonline - concert pianist - presentation, concerts, repertoire, discography of Beata Szalwinska, a Polish concert pianist, living in Luxembourg. Bekhterev, Boris - provides information on the Russian-born pianist. Berman, Bart - Israeli concert pianist specializing in Schubert and contemporary music performance. Bezprozvannykh, Elena
Cornell Concert Series - Nov. 9 pianist emanuel ax and conductor Daniel Harding join Nov. 9 concert.pianist emanuel ax and conductor Daniel Harding join the Deutsche http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/99/11.4.99/concert.html
Extractions: Pianist Emanuel Ax and conductor Daniel Harding join the Deutsche Kammerphil-harmonie for a concert in Bailey Hall this Tuesday, Nov. 9. The concert features Ax playing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, and Harding conducting the 35-person orchestra in the Lyric Suite for Orchestra by Alban Berg and Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony. Ax is known for his virtuosity, poetic temperament and the breadth of his performing activity. His distinguished career includes numerous appearances with major symphony orchestras worldwide, the commissioning and performance of new music, recitals in the most celebrated concert halls and additions to his acclaimed discography. He last appeared on the Cornell Concert Series in 1990 with violinist Yo-Yo Ma. Only 24 years old, Harding is a rising star on the international music scene who already has conducted such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This is his first season as music director of the German philharmonic orchestra. Founded in 1980, the Deutsche Kammer-philharmonie is based in Bremen, Germany, and has become a leading international chamber orchestra, appearing regularly in the major European music centers. The orchestra has also made highly successful tours of Japan, the former Soviet Union, South America and the United States, where it became the first German orchestra to perform at the Tanglewood Festival.
Welcome To The Pittsburgh Symphony Website He will also tour the United States as soloist with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic,and join with pianist emanuel ax for a duo recital tour. http://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/pghsymph.nsf/bios/A0955CE1BD40C0FA852567D20048
Extractions: Yefim Bronfman is widely regarded as one of the most talented virtuoso pianists performing today. His commanding technique and exceptional lyrical gifts have won him consistent critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences worldwide, whether for his solo recitals, his prestigious orchestral engagements or his rapidly growing catalogue of recordings. Highlights of Mr. Bronfman's 2001-02 season include appearances with the Atlanta Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, among many others. He will also tour the United States as soloist with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and join with pianist Emanuel Ax for a duo recital tour. Abroad, Mr. Bronfman appears with the Bayerische Rundfunk, the Israel Philharmonic, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Sydney Symphony and the Vienna Philharmonic, among others. This past summer featured appearances at the BBC Proms and at the Aspen, Bad Kissingen, Ravinia, Salzburg and Tanglewood festivals, as well as a series of concerts in the Far East. In 2000-01 Mr. Bronfman again appeared with the world's great orchestras, including those of Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minnesota, New York, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Toronto in North America, as well as the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg, the Maggio Musicale Orchestra of Florence, the NHK Symphony of Tokyo and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London. He also gave a series of recitals with Lorin Maazel, who as violinist performed with Mr. Bronfman the complete Brahms Sonatas at Carnegie Hall and in Berlin, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Salzburg and Vienna, among other cities-part of worldwide celebrations marking Maestro Maazel's 70th birthday.
Welcome To The Pittsburgh Symphony Website Born in Lvov, Poland, emanuel ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada Mr. ax, a graduate of ColumbiaUniversity where he in New YorkCity with his wife, pianist Yoko Nozaki http://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/pghsymph.nsf/bios/emanuel ax
Extractions: Emanuel Ax is renowned not only for his poetic temperament and unsurpassed virtuosity, but also for the exceptional breadth of his performing activity. Each season his distinguished career includes appearances with major symphony orchestras worldwide, recitals in the most celebrated concert halls, a variety of chamber music collaborations, the commissioning and performance of new music, and additions to his acclaimed discography on Sony Classical. Mr. Ax captured public attention in 1974 when, at age 25, he won the First Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975, he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists and, four years later, took the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. He has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987, making his debut on that label with a collection of Chopin scherzos and mazurkas. His releases over the last few years have included a Grammy-award winning album of Haydn Piano Sonatas, part of an ongoing Haydn cycle; the two Liszt concertos, paired with the Schoenberg Concerto; three solo Brahms albums, and an album of tangos by Astor Piazzolla. His newest releases, on two discs, feature Chopin's complete works for piano and orchestra, recorded on a 1851 Érard piano with the period-instrument Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Charles Mackerras. A two-piano recital with Yefim Bronfman and the Brahms Piano Concertos are due for future release.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Concerts & Tickets features two remarkably different piano concertos back to back to show off theextraordinary abilities of internationally renowned pianist emanuel ax. http://www.tso.on.ca/2002_2003/ticket/calendar_perform.cfm?ID=150
Extractions: Altramar - medieval music ensemble. Of interest to fans of early, folk, traditional, and new age music, as well as those interested in medieval history and culture. Amsterdam Guitar Trio Anderson, Marian Atamian, Dickran - pianist. Ax, Emanuel Bach, Kasper - Danish pianist. Bachmann, Maria Baker, Josephine Bashmet, Yuri Beecham, Sir Thomas ... Bellugi, David - a recorder virtuoso, concert and studio musician, and professor (of recorder) at the Florence conservatory. Berman, Bart - Israeli concert pianist specializing in Schubert and contemporary music performance. Bernstein, Leonard - play a wide range of music for piano duo and duet. Bjoerling, Jussi Brain, Dennis Bream, Julian Bronfman, Yefim ... Carlson, Anne - flutist Caruso, Enrico Celestial Winds - Very romantic and relaxing, we are professionals in the metaphysical healing arts use "CW1" for Massage meditation, Aromatherapy, Acupuncture. Chee-Yun - One of today's most talented young violinists. Cliburn, Van
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Extractions: Art Music, Performer Axfirst came to the classical world's attention when he won the top prize in the Artur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in l974. He is as well known, respected, and admired for his solo recitals as he is for his chamber collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, and his brilliant technique and elegant lyricism have kept him in the forefront of the world's great pianists. Search for sheet music by Emanuel Ax at Sheet Music Plus ~ Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), et al
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Extractions: Get detailed information on celebrated pianist Emanuel Ax at the Sony Classical Web site. Recording exclusively on the Sony Classical label, Ax is in demand across the world for his brilliant technique and poetic lyricism. Includes links to discography and current tour schedule. Sony Classical Artist: Bronfman, Yefim
UTPAC.org: 2002-03 Season instrument. pianist emanuel ax was only 25 years old when he won the firstArthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in 1974. Five http://www.utpac.org/2002/april.php
Extractions: From Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, the creators of Les Misérables , comes one of the most popular musicals of all-time, Miss Saigon. This epic story of two young lovers torn apart by the outside world, and held together by a burning passion, is a powerful masterwork of romance and music that has captured hearts and awards around the world. Individual Tickets go on sale April 10, 2003 To attend a performance of Shen Wei Dance Arts is to be drenched in a downpour of striking imagery and sensual movement. A founding member of the esteemed Guangdong Modern Dance Company, artistic director Shen Wei left China to make real an artistic vision that fuses the heritage of Chinese opera with modern dance, and the visual arts. His companys arresting beauty and hypnotic movement will captivate and inspire you!
1999-2000 WFCR BENEFIT EVENTS SERIES pianist emanuel ax has performed and recorded solo works, chambermusic and concertos for the last 25 years. He has won a number http://www.wfcr.org/99-00events.html
Extractions: BENEFIT EVENTS SERIES Each year WFCR arranges a series of events that bring our listeners into contact with outstanding musicians, notable writers, and other speakers of extraordinary accomplishment. These events both benefit the station and further our mission to enrich the cultural life of the area. This year we are proud to welcome the following distinguished performers and speakers: For past speakers Tuesday, February 8, at 8:00PM Chris Daly Pianist Emanuel Ax has performed and recorded solo works, chamber music and concertos for the last 25 years. He has won a number of Grammy awards, most recently for the first volume of his recordings of Haydn sonatas and for the clarinet trios of Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart, which he recorded with Yo Yo Ma and Richard Stolzman. Ax is renowned for his recitals and recordings with Ma, and his piano quartet performances with Ma, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo. He continues to give acclaimed performances with major orchestras and in recital halls around the world. And he has recently begun performing as a duo with the pianist Yoko Nozaki. This outstanding husband-and-wife team comes to the Calvin Theatre for the next WFCR benefit concert on Tuesday, February 8. You'll find Emanuel Ax's bio and discography at www.sonyclassical.com/artists/ax_top.htm
BBC - Radio 3 - John Adams - Rolling Out The Century Its released as the pianist punches out a funky jazz walking bass line. Unusuallyfor a new work, emanuel ax has taken the piece into his repertoire and http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/adams/rolling.shtml
Extractions: Slonimskys Earbox is a splashy orchestral shout that ricochets off the opening bars of Stravinskys symphonic poem The Song of the Nightingale and pays tribute to the larger-than-life Russian musicologist and conductor Nicolas Slonimsky. Adams came to know Slonimsky in the last decade of his long life (he died in 1995 at the age of 101) and was bowled over by the old mans wit, wisdom and charisma. Slonimsky was born in Tsarist Russia and later acted as assistant to the legendary conductor Serge Koussevitzky. He conducted the first performance of Varèses Ionisation in 1933 and also premiered works by Charles Ives and Henry Cowell. His seminal book Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns is an encyclopedic reference work and has had a major impact on Adamss harmonic thinking since the composition of his Chamber Symphony in 1992.
The Infinite Mind: Music And The Mind of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. pianist emanuel ax compares the joys of Mozartto the joys of procreation. Plus commentator John Hockenberry http://www.theinfinitemind.com/mind250.htm
Extractions: Music can get us "amped up" or "mellowed out;" it can soothe, arouse, amuse, irritate, and delight us. Why? Why should mere sequences of musical sounds have such power over how we feel? And how do good musicians orchestrate that power? "Music and the Mind" includes a round table discussion on music and emotion, featuring composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson ; musicologist Dr. David Huron , Professor of Music and Director of the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory at Ohio State University; and neuroscientist Dr. Mark Jude Tramo