Le pianiste Denis Matsuev a notamment brillamment ouvert le 5e Annecy Classic Festival. ...

He calls Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin “a big friend of mine.” His heroes are Vladimir Horowitz and star hockey center Sergei Fedorov. Russian pianist Denis Matsuev, who has “epic technique” according to the Boston Globe, is not shy about talking sports. In a 2009 Impromptu, he told WFMT that as a youth in Siberia, he could hardly be kept indoors. He played either soccer or ice hockey “about seven hours a day. Music was second.” Speaking with a gentle Russian growl, he laughs about breaking his fingers three times, “My parents was shocked. My parents is musician, my mother and father – all pianists.” ...

Denis Matsuev est une nature. Un phénomène. On le sait. Mais dans le 2e Concerto et la Totentanz de Liszt, on ne peut qu’être saisi par l’adéquation entre la virtuosité visionnaire des œuvres et celle du pianiste. Matsuev fond le clavier dans le métal, l’air et l’eau, et provoque des jaillissements sonores d’un autre monde. Puissance, pyrotechnie digitale, liberté musicale: dans ce registre, le Sibérien dépasse les touches pour atteindre directement le son. Et le bonheur de son jeu est électrisant. Pas une note ne lui échappe, pas un soupir ne lui résiste. La folie instrumentale de la Totentanz semble s’effacer sous ses doigts implacables et insaisissables. On peut chercher la petite bête. La palette des couleurs, la hauteur d’esprit, une certaine délicatesse musicale. Rien ne tient. L’interprète balaie d’un revers de glissando les arguments de la raison, du style et des codes. Il arrache le piano du sol et transporte Liszt dans la quatrième dimension. La sienne, en somme… ...

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Le festival de musique classique d'Annecy aura lieu cet été pour la cinquième année consécutive sous la direction du pianiste russe de renom Denis Matsuev pour une dizaine de jours et toujours dans un cadre merveilleux. ...

Dix jours en plein cœur de la musique classique : c’est ce que propose la 5e édition d’Annecy Classic Festival, du 19 au 29 août. ...

The Fifth Annecy Classical Music Festival is approaching. During these five years that have flown by so fast, the festival has already become traditional.  ...

Fruitful cooperation of Denis Matsuev with LSO continues. "It is the great honour to me to be selected the resident artist of the new season and to perform with one of the best orchestras of the world under baton of my friend Valery Gergiev. The season will be opened with concerts at the Barbican Hall with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto #2 on September, 21 and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto #3 on September, 23. Two more concerts in London will take place in November, I’ll perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2. We will visit together a huge number of countries in Europe (Italy, Slovakia, Greece, France and others), Australia and Singapore. The programme includes Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2, - said Denis Matsuev - I invite all to these concerts." ...

This DVD-record was made at the closing ceremony of the classical music Annecy Classic Festival 2013, at which I’ve been working as artistic director for already four years, I am very pleased that this festival has such a powerful development during this time, and it really got into the elite of European festivals. I think that first of all it was due to the fact that we have managed to gather friends and create a great team. "Friends" and "team" are key words, as in everyday life, and in cultural, festival, concert life. Of course, one of the main factors of this success is the fact that for four years one of the most outstanding conductors Y. Temirkanov with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra has come to us, in Annecy, for these four years and that the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the festival.  ...

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Pianist Denis Matsuev’s power overwhelms ...

I’ve just completed my long awaited American tour. These concerts were postponed, because in January I fell ill with pneumonia. For me it is, of course, was a shock, because I was forced to reschedule concerts for the first time in my life. I love concert halls both in Washington and in New York, I love American public. And I was absolutely frustrated also because I knew that all tickets were sold out, I knew that people were waiting for these concerts. I would like to linger round the solo concert at the legendary Carnegie Hall. When people say "legendary halls", this is just about the Carnegie Hall, it was opened by P.I. Tchaikovsky. And Rachmaninoff has performed more than a hundred concerts on this scene. Carnegie Hall is a landmark place for any musician, and, of course, every appearance on this stage is a huge responsibility and a unique pleasure. My debut album was a recording of a concert from Carnegie Hall. I have over two dozen performances here, and each time I feel awe. This year my friend, Executive and artistic Director of Carnegie Hall, Sir Clive Gillinson invited me to take part in the three concerts of a series "Carnegie Hall presents". This concert was part of a series "Keyboard Virtuosos", in which I found myself in the company of wonderful musicians performing at Carnegie Hall during this musical season. I thought over the program for this concert really thoroughly, as I was aware of all the responsibility to the American public, which I love and good attitude of which I cherish. The atmosphere at the concert itself was fascinating; I was got a lot of positive energy and emotions from the audience. As it happens all the time after the concerts in Carnegie Hall, I got a lot of enemies. Tickets for the concert were sold out, so not all comers were lucky to get them. Unfortunately, there was nothing I could do about it. In Russia, knowing how it is important for many people to come to classic music concerts, I always manage to solve the problem with tickets somehow (to get tickets to the gallery or just put the chairs on the stage that happens more and more often recently). Unfortunately, it is impossible variant for Carnegie Hall, because of the traditions and original peculiarities of the hall. Therefore, those who has not got to the concert this time, I solemnly promise to inform you about the dates of future concerts in Carnegie Hall, which will take place in January 2015, where you all are invited. Once again I would like to thank the administration of Carnegie Hall and New York public for the incredible emotions and warm welcome! I convey my greetings to all, I am now in Luxembourg, tomorrow - Paris, the day after tomorrow I'll be in St. Petersburg with Valery Gergiev at his festival, so this wonderful madness continues. ...

To get the geopolitical controversy out of the way first: Acclaimed Russian pianist Denis Matsuev says he does not regret signing a document that voiced support for President Vladimir Putin’s position on Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The document, which was published in mid-March on the Web site of Russia’s Ministry of Culture, and which also endorsed Putin’s stance on Ukraine in general, attracted signatures from world-famous conductor Valery Gergiev, Bolshoi Theatre general director Vladimir Urin and other members of Russia’s artistic elite, prompting some dismay within and outside the country. ...

I am proud of being his friend, I am proud that we have such a unique conductor, who every day devotes himself to art of music on a stage, enlightens the minds of lots of people.  ...

Tie yourself and your valuables down. Denis Matsuev and Valery Gergiev take a dangerous, open-top sports car approach to Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto. The sharpness of the attack, the delight in clashing sonorities, and the sheer raciness of the approach make the music so exciting it’s almost exhausting to listen to. Matsuev’s command is astonishing, in a performance that unflinchingly aligns the piece to the daunting world of the composer’s Second Concerto. ...

It was a wonderful evening at Florence’s Teatro Comunale, with Indian conductor Zubin Mehta really in great shape. On the program, Liszt’ Concert Nr. 2 for piano and orchestra, a work not so famous and much less performed than Concert Nr. 1. The soloist was young Russian Denis Matsuev, who plays with great virtuosity and subtleties. ...

Ciclo de Grandes Intérpretes. ...

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