Eight Questions for Daniil Trifonov

Here’s a brief interview with Daniil Trifonov at the Wiener Konzerthaus, before a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda on November 11^th. Eight questions (the Ninth question, how he liked Questionnaires, didn't somehow work as intended, which could, in truth, be said of several of the questions) that we might pose to other artists, should the occasion arise. The transcript is below.

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Via Wiener Konzerthaus: «Excess, but not Excessive» — Interview with Marin Alsop

One of the first interviews on ionarts was with Maestra Alsop (“Maestra Talks a Little: Ionarts Interview with Marin Alsop”. About eight years later (on Friday, April 4th, 2014, prior to her concert with the ORF Symphony Orchestra, performing Leonard Bernstein's «Jeremiah» and Mahler's First Symphony, to be precise) I had the opportunity to sit down with her again, to interview her briefly about this and that, including Mahler and Ives and Haydn and Bach. (See video below) The post on the Konzerthaus Magazine includes a Spotify Playlist of select and favorite recordings of Marin Alsop's.

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«Stained Glass», Concertino for Joshua Redman, Aaron Goldberg, and the WKO

 

 Gerd Hermann Ortler, «Stained Glass»

Concertino for Joshua Redman, Aaron Goldberg, and the Wiener KammerOrchester (2014)

(World Premiere Performance, commissioned by the Wiener Konzerthaus)

Performed on Tuesday, March 11th, 2014 at the Grosser Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus ¶

Tan Dun, «The Tears of Nature» with Martin Grubinger, Krzysztof Urbanski et al.

 

 Tan Dun, «The Tears of Nature»
Concert for Percussion and Orchestra (2012)

Martin Grubinger (percussion) / Wiener Symphoniker / Krzysztof Urbanski

Performed on Friday, April 25th, 2014 at the Grosser Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus ¶

The Wiener Klaviertrio in Onslow, Gredler, and Dvorák

 

 Exerpts from:
George Onslow, Piano Trio No.7, op.20 in D-Minor (1822)
Michael Gredler, «Funk for Piano Trio» (2011) (World Premiere Performance)
Antonín Dvorák, «Dumky-Trio» op.90 in E-Minor (1890-1891)
Wiener Klaviertrio:
Bogdan Božovic (violin), Matthias Gredler (cello), Stefan Mendl (piano)
Performed on Tuesday, März 18th, 2014 at the Mozart-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus ¶

Anton Webern: Langsamer Satz

The Belcea Quartett plays Anton Webern's «Langsamer Satz» in the Mozart-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus, Wednesday, March 26th, 2014

For those interested, you can read more about «Langsamer Satz» in the interview with the Belcea Quartet's Violist Krzysztof Chorzelski on the online Magazine of the Wiener Konzerthaus here: http://bit.ly/1hAUXPY