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| Adrian Brendel and Alfred Brendel - Only NYC Recital (4.27.04) |
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| Tickets/Registration: 212.415.5500 |
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| Media Contact: Beverly Greenfield, 212.415.5452, email |
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| ADRIAN BRENDEL, CELLO ♦ ALFRED BRENDEL, PIANO |
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| MUSIC BY BEETHOVEN FOR CELLO AND PIANO |
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ONLY JOINT RECITAL IN NEW YORK CITY
Tuesday, April 27 at 8:00 p.m., $35 |
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92ND STREET Y TISCH CENTER FOR THE ARTS
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS SERIES |
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"...what gives [Alfred Brendel's] concerts their often bracing sense of struggle is his
Beethovenian belief that the purpose of art is to tame the ever-present threat of unruliness."
— New York Observer |
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| New York, NY, March, 23, 2004—On Tuesday, April 27 at 8:00 p.m., the 92nd Street Y Tisch Center for the Arts presents legendary pianist Alfred Brendel and his son, cellist Adrian Brendel, performing an all-Beethoven program of music for cello and piano. |
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The younger Brendel has been featured in Lincoln Center's Chamber Music II program for exceptional young performing artists; the elder Brendel is widely recognized for his ability to convey the intellectual and emotional depth of the keyboard literature. On the program are Beethoven's Sonatas for Cello and Piano in F Major (Op. 5, No. 1), A Major (Op. 69) and D Major (Op. 102, No. 2), and his Twelve variations on "See the conqu"ring hero comes"
from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus, WoO45. |
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| CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERT DISCOUNTS |
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| A limited number of $10 tickets are available in the rear orchestra for each concert. Senior citizens and students with ID's may obtain a 50% discount on regularly priced tickets one hour before show time on the day of the concert. |
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| ABOUT THE ARTISTS |
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| ADRIAN BRENDEL, born in London in 1976, studied at Winchester College, Cambridge University and with Frans Helmerson at the Cologne Music Conservatoire, as well as with Alexander Baillie, Miklos Perenyi and William Pleeth. In recent years he has regularly attended master classes with members of the Alban Berg Quartet and György Kurtág, while cultivating a close musical relationship with his father Alfred Brendel, with whom he performs Beethoven's works for piano and cello. Mr. Brendel is a regular participant at the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Oxford festivals, as well as festivals in Germany and Austria. He has performed throughout the U.K. and abroad as chamber musician and soloist, including at Wigmore Hall, where he made his debut in 1999. He has worked frequently with his trio partners Paul Lewis and Katharine Gowers, and a new duo with pianist Tim Horton. Last season he gave recitals in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Lucerne Festival and the Teatro della pergola in Florence, and performances of Mozart's piano quartets in Vienna's Musikverein, Tokyo Opera City Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall with his father and friends. He has recorded for ORF, NDR, WDR, Sudwestfunk and Deutchlandradio. In October 2002, Mr. Brendel became a member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS2 young artists program. Adrian Brendel is co-founder of Music at Plush, a summer music festival in Dorset, southwest England. |
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| ALFRED BRENDEL performs regularly with virtually all of the leading orchestras and conductors of the world. He has presented recitals in the major centers of Europe, Great Britain and Japan, and his annual tours of North America have taken him coast to coast. In 1997/98 Mr. Brendel augmented his tours to present an evening of reflection and commentary on music, literature and the visual arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Europe, his schedule included repeated appearances with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic and with Sir Simon Rattle and the Vienna Philharmonic. Mr. Brendel is a prolific recording artist, and for the past 30 years he has recorded exclusively for Philips Classics. Prizes for his recordings include the Grand Prix du Disque, the Japan Record Academy Award, Gramophone's "Critics Choice," the Grand Prix de L'Académie du disque français, the Edison Prize, and many others. Mr. Brendel has published many books of non-fiction, including Alfred Brendel on Music and Ausgerechnet Ich (Me, of all people), two collections of articles and lectures and a collection of essays, Music Sounded Out (Farrar Straus Giroux); he is also a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. In addition, Mr. Brendel has published several volumes of poetry, including One Finger Too Many (Random House). He is the subject of a BBC documentary entitled Alfred Brendel — Man and Mask. Alfred Brendel is the recipient of many honors and awards, including honorary doctorates from Oxford, London, Sussex and Yale universities, and is only the third pianist in history to be named an honorary member of the Vienna Philharmonic, a distinction he shares with Emil von Sauer and Wilhelm Backhaus. Mr. Brendel was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1989 for his "outstanding services to music in Britain," where he has made his home since 1972. |
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| ABOUT THE 92ND STREET Y |
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| The 92ND STREET Y TISCH CENTER FOR THE ARTS, endowed through the generous support of the Tisch family, produces and presents world-class concerts of classical, world, folk and cabaret music, lyric theater and jazz. The Center's Unterberg Poetry Center, established in 1939, produces a renowned literary reading series that presents the most distinguished writers of our time and offers extensive educational programs for writers of all levels. |
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The 92nd Street Y unites culture and community service in one multifaceted institution. Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the Y is dedicated to enriching the lives of the 300,000 people of every race and faith who, each year, visit its three facilities — the historic headquarters on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Makor, on the Upper West Side, and the Rockland County campgrounds. Visitors come to the 92nd Street Y to hear music of all kinds; to listen to writers read from their work; to explore Jewish culture; and to gain insight from public figures and experts in every field. Programs for children and adults help them navigate each stage of life, an extensive adult-education curriculum includes instruction by renowned authors and artists, and an unusual wellness initiative offers both a wide range of fitness activities and the opportunity to learn from the nation's leading healthcare professionals. Committed to sharing its programs with all New Yorkers regardless of economic circumstance, the 92nd Street Y provides over $1 million in scholarships every year and reaches out to 7,000 public school children with fully-subsidized arts programs. For more information, visit www.92Y.org/content/PRESS_RESOURCES.asp.
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