May, 20, Denis Matsuev will perform together with the Israeli
Philharmonic Orchestra headed by Zubin Mehta at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. The
concert will mark the reunion of the creative duo Matsuev-Mehta. The fact that the
Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating its 75 years this year makes the
event even more meaningful. Also this day Denis Matsuev and Zubin Mehta will
give a press conference.
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“The Daily Express” has published the following review on the “Matsuev.
Liszt” album: “The melodic structure and beauty of Liszt’s
approach to piano composition is so impressive in these fluent recordings of
his piano concertos 1 and 2. The brilliant Russian pianist
Denis Matsuev explores the exquisite twists and turns of the works with an
often enthralling fluency”.
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For the 1st
time in 27 years Moscow
is playing host to the World Chess Championship. Denis Matsuev played for the
participants and the guests of the tournament at the opening ceremony in the
Vrubel hall of the Tretyakov gallery. The video is available on the “Russia 24” channel web site.
May, 2, is
Valery Gergiev’s birthday. Denis Matsuev performed together with the maestro at
this special occasion – which has become a tradition already. The concert took
place at the stage of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire in terms of
the Easter festival, an event inspired by Valery Gergiev. Follow this link to
watch the video by the “Russia
24”
channel, and the video is available on the “Culture” TV channel web site.
Follow this link to watch the photos from Irkutsk: master
class by Valery Vladimirovich Pyasetsky, professor of the Moscow State
Conservatoire, giving diplomas to the “New Names” foundation grant holders and the concert. Photos by Evgeny Evtyukhov.
April, 24,
at 19 30 (London
time) the BBC 3 Radio will broadcast a concert from the Royal
Festival Hall. Denis Matsuev and the Philharmonia Orchestra headed by Leif Segerstam will perform Rachmaninoff, piano concerto # 2. Earlier that day, at 13 00, Denis will give an interview to the BBC
3 Radio.
My previous monologue ended with my arrival to Moscow where I played concert at the Philharmonic and then flew to Zurich.
In the first airing of my video-blog I mentioned that I will make a very swift trip – so it happened! The next morning I was rehearsing Rachmaninov’s Third Concerto with V. Gergiev and The Zurich opera Orchestra. The main concern was that this orchestra never played this concerto, or played it very long ago. And this concert is rather an orchestra part, almost a symphony, than a usual accompaniment to the soloist. V. Gergiev arrived one day ahead of me and rehearsed with the orchestra without a soloist. Read more...
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Giving interviews I often realize that a lot does not fit into an interview format and is left unsaid. Now I want to share with you my thoughts accumulated from the beginning of this year, which started with my personal subscription seasonal concert in Moscow and my USA Tour.
Nikolay Pavlovich Krivomazov, a
close friend of mine and one of the most outstanding representatives of the
Soviet and the Russian press, passed away. I got acquainted with him long ago,
when I went to school, to the secondary school no.1 in Irkutsk, together with his children Misha and
Jenya. Nikolay Pavlovich Krivomazov was a journalist of a world scale. I learnt
a lot from him, we were close friends for a long time, we lived through hard
times together, through the beginning of 1990s, a terrible period in every
respect. Nikolay Pavlovich’s decease is a great loss and a hard blow for
everyone who knew him. Last year, which seems so close, he wrote an article
about me for “Komsomolskaya Pravda”…
