Steinmetz Hall Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Orlando
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, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Miami
, Steinmetz Hall Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Orlando
, Isarphilharmonie
Conductor and Piano
Lahav Shani
Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
When Sergei Prokofiev died in Moscow on March 5, 1953 - the same day as Josef Stalin - he left behind an extensive body of work, of which his musical fairy tale "Peter and the Wolf", his first symphony, subtitled "Symphonie Classique", and his ballet…
Symphony No. 1 in D major, Opus 25, »Symphonie classique«
Symphony No. 1 in D major, Opus 25, »Symphonie classique«
Why would a young composer, known as an "enfant terrible" of Russian music give his first symphony the sub-title "Classic"? "When it began to take on palpable forms, I called it the `Classic Symphony´: firstly because it´s simpler, secondly out of a…
Russian composer Dmitrij Schostakowitsch, born on September 25th 1906 in St. Petersburg, was in a difficult artistic position. He was severely restricted in his artistic freedom by the severe strictures of the Soviet Union's cultural ideologues and…
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F major, Opus 102
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F major, Opus 102
Shostakovich dedicated his Second Piano Concerto in F major, op. 102, to his then 19-year-old son, Maxim, who was then studying at the Moscow Conservatory, preparing for a career as a pianist and conductor. The concerto was written in the autumn of…
Opinions once varied on the music of Anton Bruckner (born on September 4, 1824 in Ansfelden, near Linz), who ranks amongst the great symphonists after Beethoven. While one faction regarded him as a destroyer of traditions, the other side ecstatically…
Romantic was the name Anton Bruckner himself gave to his Fourth Symphony, supplying it with a fitting, associative comment, which he communicated to his friend and first biographer August Göllrich: Mediæval city dawn the sound of the town…
Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
When Sergei Prokofiev died in Moscow on March 5, 1953 - the same day as Josef Stalin - he left behind an extensive body of work, of which his musical fairy tale "Peter and the Wolf", his first symphony, subtitled "Symphonie Classique", and his ballet…
Symphony No. 1 in D major, Opus 25, »Symphonie classique«
Why would a young composer, known as an "enfant terrible" of Russian music give his first symphony the sub-title "Classic"? "When it began to take on palpable forms, I called it the `Classic Symphony´: firstly because it´s simpler, secondly out of a…
Russian composer Dmitrij Schostakowitsch, born on September 25th 1906 in St. Petersburg, was in a difficult artistic position. He was severely restricted in his artistic freedom by the severe strictures of the Soviet Union's cultural ideologues and…
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F major, Opus 102
Shostakovich dedicated his Second Piano Concerto in F major, op. 102, to his then 19-year-old son, Maxim, who was then studying at the Moscow Conservatory, preparing for a career as a pianist and conductor. The concerto was written in the autumn of…
Opinions once varied on the music of Anton Bruckner (born on September 4, 1824 in Ansfelden, near Linz), who ranks amongst the great symphonists after Beethoven. While one faction regarded him as a destroyer of traditions, the other side ecstatically…
Romantic was the name Anton Bruckner himself gave to his Fourth Symphony, supplying it with a fitting, associative comment, which he communicated to his friend and first biographer August Göllrich: Mediæval city dawn the sound of the town…
Der 1989 in Tel Aviv geborene Lahav Shani studierte Klavier bei Prof. Arie Vardi an der Buchmann-Mehta School of Music. Anschließend wechselte er an die Hochschule für Musik »Hanns Eisler« in Berlin, wo er Dirigieren bei Prof. Christian Ehwald und…
Der 1989 in Tel Aviv geborene Lahav Shani studierte Klavier bei Prof. Arie Vardi an der Buchmann-Mehta School of Music. Anschließend wechselte er an die Hochschule für Musik »Hanns Eisler« in Berlin, wo er Dirigieren bei Prof. Christian Ehwald und…
Martha Argerich wurde in Buenos Aires (Argentinien) geboren, begann im Alter von fünf Jahren bei Vincenzo Scaramuzza mit dem Klavierunterricht und galt bald als Wunderkind. 1955 zog sie nach Europa und setzte ihre Ausbildung in London, Wien und der…
Der 1989 in Tel Aviv geborene Lahav Shani studierte Klavier bei Prof. Arie Vardi an der Buchmann-Mehta School of Music. Anschließend wechselte er an die Hochschule für Musik »Hanns Eisler« in Berlin, wo er Dirigieren bei Prof. Christian Ehwald und…
Martha Argerich wurde in Buenos Aires (Argentinien) geboren, begann im Alter von fünf Jahren bei Vincenzo Scaramuzza mit dem Klavierunterricht und galt bald als Wunderkind. 1955 zog sie nach Europa und setzte ihre Ausbildung in London, Wien und der…
Der 1989 in Tel Aviv geborene Lahav Shani studierte Klavier bei Prof. Arie Vardi an der Buchmann-Mehta School of Music. Anschließend wechselte er an die Hochschule für Musik »Hanns Eisler« in Berlin, wo er Dirigieren bei Prof. Christian Ehwald und…
Martha Argerich wurde in Buenos Aires (Argentinien) geboren, begann im Alter von fünf Jahren bei Vincenzo Scaramuzza mit dem Klavierunterricht und galt bald als Wunderkind. 1955 zog sie nach Europa und setzte ihre Ausbildung in London, Wien und der…
