Denis matsuev rachmaninoff biography
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A 5-hour marathon of Rachmaninoff's complete piano concertos
Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff's complete piano concertos will be performed in a five-hour marathon concert at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center by Russian pianist Denis Matsuev.
He will be joined bygd the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Sladkovsky, the orchestra's principle dirigent and artistic director, and dirigent Christopher Chen.
The concert is a tribute to the 150th anniversary of the Russian composer's birth. The first half starts at 7pm, including programs of Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor," "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" and "Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor."
The second half starts at 10pm, featuring "Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor" and "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor."
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Russian pianist Denis Matsuev will play for five hours in Shanghai.
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"Denis Matsuev. Unknown Rachmaninoff"
January 2 2012
Bryce Morrison, "Gramophone"
March, 2008
“Ever since his triumph in the 1998 Tchaikovsky Competition, Denis Matsuev’s name has inspired awe and amazement in musical circles. And for once the hype, the website photo gallery with its accompanying talk of “thunder and raindrops”, is if anything low-pitched. For here is a virtuoso in the grandest of Russian traditions who returns us to the great days of Emil Gilels (a pianist whose sonority was once described by Heinrich Neuhaus as “rich in noble metal, 20-carat gold). He literally possesses the sort of technique which begins where others end, and here in Rachmaninov his playing is truly “stewed in Russian juices”.
His recital entitled “Unknown Rachmaninov” is in fact a mix of the familiar and newly discovered.
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Biography
Since his triumph in the 1998 at the 11th International Tchaikovsky Competition, Denis Matsuev has become a virtuoso in the grandest of Russian pianistic tradition and has quickly established himself as one of the most prominent pianists of his generation.
Mr. He is continually re-engaged with the legendary Russian orchestras such as the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Orchestra and the Russian National Orchestra.
Denis gives recitals in the USA in Boston, Washington and New York in Carnegie Hall (Keyboard Virtuosos series), in London in Royal Festival ingång (International Piano series), Madrid in Auditorio Nacional de Musica, Amsterdam in Concertgebouw (Master Pianists series) and Moscow (the Great ingångsrum of Moscow Conservatory).
Denis Matsuev regularly appears with the most distinguished conductors on a stage today, including Valery Gergiev, Yuri Temirkanov, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Ricardo Chailly, Christian Thielemann, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Paavo