| Date and venue | Title |
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| 4-May-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | "I'm in love with Vienna": Renée Fleming and friends at Carnegie Hall |
 For the last concert of her Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, Renée Fleming assembled one of the least coherent concept programmes imaginable. Billed as “Vienna: Window to Modernity”, it was never clear what was specifically Viennese about the music on show, nor what was particularly modern, nor what windows had to do with anything. If this was about the fin de siècle and the turbulent culture that accompanied the collapse of the Austrian empire, then historians are going to have to redefine what a siècle might be, let alone a fin.Read full review... | |
| 18-Jul-2012 University of Maryland: Clarice Smith PAC: Gildenhorn Recital Hall | Jeremy Denk plays Ligeti and Brahms at the University of Maryland |
Samantha West.jpg) For pianist Jeremy Denk, Ligeti’s Études have been a kind of musical calling card. On tour, he has paired the Hungarian composer’s revolutionary studies in virtuosic pianism with Bach’s Goldberg Variations, while Denk’s latest recording presents Books I and II of the Études as bookends to Beethoven’s final piano sonata. The musical juxtapositions have been inspired, as each of the works explores, in their own way, the possibilities of the keyboard and aspires toward—and achieves—a sense of infinitude.
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| 16-Feb-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Sir Roger Norrington and Jeremy Denk Take Command of the Stage at Carnegie Hall |
Dennis Callahan.jpg) The Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall is enough to catch anyone’s breath. But it wasn’t the grandeur of the hall that struck me; it was the fact that the conductor’s podium was missing from the stage. A bold statement: it was clear Sir Roger Norrington was going to conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke’s his own way.
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| 10-Dec-2011 Chicago Symphony Center | Michael Tilson Thomas and Jeremy Denk play unfamiliar classics in Chicago |
 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra hosted guest conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Jeremy Denk this weekend in works of Mahler, Beethoven and Brahms that felt familiar yet oddly fresh (or bizarre, depending on one’s point of view). The program comprised Mahler’s Blumine, a freestanding work originally used as the second movement of his First Symphony; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor; and the Piano Quartet in G minor of Brahms, in the 1937 orchestral arrangement by Arnold Schoenberg.
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