Simone Dinnerstein in The Berlin Concert on Telarc - August 26
Pianist SIMONE DINNERSTEIN
"The
Recorded live at the
on November 22, 2007 (CD-80715)
Release Date: Aug. 26, 2008
Program:
J. S. Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
Philip Lasser: Variations on a Bach Chorale*
Beethoven: Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
*world premiere recording
Select tracks now available to download
FREE of charge at www.simonedinnerstein.com/berlin
Praise for Ms. Dinnerstein's TELARC recording of
Bach's Goldberg Variations, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Chart:
Named as one of the Best Classical CDs of 2007 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, and more
"elegant and assured" – The New Yorker
"... a distinctive approach to the work: colorful and idiosyncratic..." – The New York Times
"a timeless, meditative, utterly audacious solo debut" – O, The Oprah Magazine
Ms. Dinnerstein chose this program because of how the pieces speak to each other, and because of their relationship to the music of Bach. She explains, "My hope with this concert was to program a group of pieces that would contrast with and relate to each other, despite being separated by hundreds of years. So much music written since Bach has been influenced by him, and the Beethoven and the Lasser recorded here are no exceptions. Philip Lasser's variations on the very dark Bach chorale, Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott (Take from us, Lord, Thou faithful God), draw on Bach's intense and meditative side. Lasser's writing is intricately crafted and encompasses a range of styles, from a contrapuntal energy reminiscent of Bach, to French Impressionism and even jazz. Beethoven's Opus 111 sounds surprisingly contemporary in this company. The first movement looks ahead to Liszt and the second movement, with its set of variations on a chorale-like arietta, looks back to Bach and ahead to jazz. All three works are densely layered, but also have a sense of freedom and directness of expression. Though they span almost 300 years, in many ways, to me, they each feel grounded in the present."
Of The Berlin Concert CD, International Piano raves, "Dinnerstein's subtly-inflected tonal purity and exquisite dynamic suppleness impart a sense of concentrated musical inevitability to the Bach French Suite rivalled only in my experience by Dinu Lipatti's incandescent reading of the B flat Partita. . . The Gigue finale is not only touch-perfect (how does she create such an exquisite, velvety staccato?) but also so mellifluously voiced and immaculately balanced that it is difficult to imagine the music being played with a more complete grasp of every parameter. . . Most remarkably of all one has the extraordinary sense of Beethoven's epic structures (particularly the theme and variations finale) not so much unravelling in time but emerging as one coexistent whole."
Ms. Dinnerstein has gained an international following because of the remarkable success of her recording of the Goldberg Variations, released on Telarc in August 2007. The album, which was Ms. Dinnerstein's solo CD debut, earned the No. 1 spot on the US Billboard Classical Chart during its first week of sales and has remained highly ranked since then. In recent months, she has been featured in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Classic FM Magazine, The New York Times, Slate.com, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others, and has appeared on radio programs including BBC Radio 3's In Tune, NPR's Morning Edition, Public Radio International's Studio 360, American Public Media's Performance Today, Minnesota Public Radio, as part of the news on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's The Howard Stern Show, and on national television in Germany.
In today's classical music and recording industry climate, it is rare that a debut album from a relatively little known artist generates such an enthusiastic response from the public and the media. The New York Times chose the disc as one of the Best CDs of 2007, describing it with, "An utterly distinctive voice in the
In addition to her debut in
Since 1996 Ms. Dinnerstein has played concerts throughout the
At Juilliard, Ms. Dinnerstein was a student of Peter Serkin. She also studied with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music and in
Philip Lasser (b. 1963,
Upcoming Performances (visit www.simonedinnerstein.com for details)
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