Order Now Based on my familiarity with her three brilliantly played and thought-provoking Delos albums, I looked forward greatly to Greek guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou’s November 19th concert at the Trianon Theatre in downtown San Jose, Ca. She did not disappoint, delighting a large crowd with a wide-ranging program which left no doubt that she is…
Pre-Order Every piece on this recording has a life of its own, a soul, and a personality. To me, Beethoven’s music is life-changing and miraculous; through his music, I find hope and inspiration. In the Piano Sonata in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3 – with its beauty, innocence, drama, and intensity – he explores…
I have the great pleasure of writing this, at least part of it, on a moving train cutting through the Bohemian countryside. Central European clichés lay just beyond the window: frost-laden fields, misty rivers, ruined castles, red-brown villages squeezed into narrow valleys, a mangy dog sleeping atop a stone wall. I am having a beer…
Sorry for the delay in getting my descriptions of Moscow’s mind-boggling Tretyakov State Gallery and Jewish Museum and Center for Tolerance blog-worthy. Both places are of such high quality and vastness of scope that I can do no more than give a sense of why you mustn’t miss either one if you ever make it…
We piled into our van for the drive from Lugo to Modena. Our driver, Vittoria, also happens to be the drummer in a rock band called Massimo Volume which has been around for a number of years and is quite well known in Italy and has toured the states several times. In Modena, the Rileys…
Today we traveled about an hour to the little town of Lugo. Surrounded by farmland and vineyards, this peaceful little town is home of the Teatro Rossini, one of those perfect little opera houses you find sprinkled throughout Italy. I remember being enchanted by the first one I encountered in Perugia when I played there…
The previous night was a late one, so I figured Terry would want to sleep in a bit and get a late start rehearsing, and with such a late dinner I thought I’d just skip breakfast and sleep as well. So I headed over to the rehearsal studio around 11:00 to find Terry had been…
Breakfast as usual at 8. We all hoped Terry had finally gotten some sleep so it was very reassuring to see a big smile and a thumbs up when he came in. Off to our padded cell to rehearse and then lunch at another of Massimo’s favorite haunts, a wonderful little seafood restaurant. The menu…
Sunday morning at 8:30, the director of the Angelica Festival, Massimo Simonini, met us at the hotel as we were finishing breakfast and took us to Real Sound rehearsal studios a few blocks away. Real Sound occupies a group of basement rooms, sound-proofed for rock bands. Our padded cell was equipped with a small PA…
Departure I write this from a JFK terminal bar, awaiting my flight to Heathrow via Dublin. It occurs to me that I haven’t been to Ireland – which happens to be my ancestral home and which I’ve visited five times – in 12 years. Back in the 90s the Celtic Tiger couldn’t seem to be…
Posted by Andrew von Oeyen Choosing repertoire is often difficult for me. One of the reasons is that the piano literature is so large and the choices can be overwhelming. It’s hard enough to decide what to perform in concert; it’s even harder deciding what to record. Add to the equation “debut album” and, well,…
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