J.S.Bach HARPSICHORD Concerto in D Minor BWV 1052 Polina Osetinskaya piano
The Mariinsky String Orchestra
Conductor: Anton Gakkel www.antongakkel.org/
St.Petersburg, Mariinsky Theatre, Concert Hall 29.03.2015
0:05 — 1mvt / 8:15 — 2mvt / 16:13 — 3mvt
The life of pianist Polina Osetinskaya can be divided into two stages. The first – that of “wunderkind” (a word that Polina herself cannot abide) – was when Polina performed as a girl in huge halls filled with excited sensationalists. The second, which has continued to the present day, is essentially her victory over the first. It is both a reference to serious performing and to exacting audiences.
Polina Osetinskaya began to perform at the age of five. At the age of seven she entered the Central School of Music of the Moscow Conservatoire. Polina gave her first concert at the age of six at the Great Hall of the Vilnius Conservatoire in Lithuania. Together with her father who accepted the role of manager, the young Polina began to undertake frequent tours throughout the former USSR to packed halls and ovations. In her own country Polina was possibly the most famous child of her time and her relationship with her father was portrayed by the mass media as some kind of soap opera after the thirteen-year-old Polina decided to leave her father and study music seriously at the school of the Leningrad Conservatoire under the acclaimed teacher Marina Wolf.
Polina began to tour once again while still a student at the St Petersburg Conservatoire. (The pianist subsequently completed a postgraduate course at the Moscow Conservatoire under Professor Vera Gornostayeva.) She has appeared with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Weimar National Opera, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic (Honoured Ensemble of Russia), the State Academic Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Virtuosi and the New Russia orchestra among other ensembles.
Polina Osetinskaya’s onstage partners have included conductors Saulius Sondeckis, Vassily Sinaisky, Andrei Boreiko, Gerd Albrecht, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Thomas Sanderling. Polina Osetinskaya has performed at the Wallonie Festival in Brussels, the Mainly Mozart festival, the Frédéric Chopin Festival in Miami, the Stars of the White Nights festival and the December Evenings festival among numerous others.
The pianist has been awarded the Maly Triumph prize. In 2008 she wrote her autobiography Farewell, Sadness, which became a bestseller.
Polina Osetinskaya generally creates unusual and frequently paradoxical solo programmes. She almost always includes works by contemporary composers, frequently justaposing them with traditional classical works: “Contemporary music is not just a continuation of older music. It also helps us discover ideas and beauty in older music that have been lost over decades of the blind museum generation and mechanical and often soulless performing.”
Polina Osetinskaya often performs works by post-avant-garde composers such as Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Desyatnikov, Vladimir Martynov, Georgs Pelēcis and Pavel Karmanov.
The pianist collaborates with many recording companies including Naxos, Sony Music and Bel Air.
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Brahms piano concertos nos. 1 and 2 played by Krystian Zimerman with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker.
Piano Concerto No. 1 — 00:31
Piano Concerto No. 2 — 56:10
From the Festival d’Ambronay, 2012
Contralto Nathalie Stutzmann conducts violinist Satomi Watanabe and Orfeo 55
Johann Sebastian Bach — Saint Matthew Passion «Ebarme Dich, mein Gott» BWV 244
A coproduction of
Ozango — Le Festival d’Ambronay
with the participation of France Télévisions
in association with M_Media
with the support of Centre National du Cinéma et de limage animée
Performing the first movement of Bachs Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic. Goulds performance begins at 18:03.
Originally aired on January 31, 1960 on CBS Television as part of its Ford Presents series, this program was entitled «The Creative Performer.» The entire show is actually three performances — by Gould, the soprano Eileen Farrell (singing the «Suicidio!» aria from *La Gioconda*),
J. S. Bach
Cantatas:
BWV 75 [29:15]
BWV 39 [21:00]
BWV 20 [23:46]
Soprano: Gillian Keith
Mezzo-soprano: Wilke te Brummelstroete
Tenor: Paul Agnew
Bass: Dietrich HenschelLive
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: at St. Giles Cripplegate, London, England.
Volume 1 CD 2