 
Heinrich Spängler
Helga Rabl-Stadler
G. Schwaighofer
Josef Hussek
Great success
The little match girl
DaPonte in Santa Fe
Masterclasses
Young Directors
Forging links
The Camerata
Compulsory
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ATTENDANCE COMPULSORY!
The pianists Volodos, Buchbinder and Zimerman
In addition to Pollini and Brendel, three internationally renowned pianists will be courting the attention of eager and open-minded audiences at the rich selection of solo recitals on this year’s Festival programme. In recent years these soloists have been conspicuous for the number of exciting recitals and recordings they have made, while at the same time they have shown delightful reserve with regard to discographic energy spent either on performing the everyday or the unique.
Krystian Zimerman – a musical precursor
These remarks apply especially to Poland’s Chopin prizewinner, Krystian Zimerman, who has been living in Switzerland for many years. His unusual interpretation of the two Chopin concertos (where he played the roles of soloist, orchestra founder, tour manager and conductor all in one) are still fresh in people’s memory, though lovers of music as well as experts and critics were divided in their opinions. Zimerman, in good company with his label colleague, Pollini, has maintained silence about his recital programme in Salzburg, but all those music lovers from around the world who attend the final stages of the Festival would be well advised to order their tickets for this concert (27 August). Zimerman can – I might say, must – be considered one of the most prominent and original pianists in the musical world today no matter what works he chooses to perform from the classical, romantic or contemporary repertoire.
Two virtuosos: Rudolf Buchbinder and
Arcadi Volodos
Rudolf Buchbinder and that ebullient, good-natured exponent of perennial artistic perfection, Arcadi Volodas, are united in Salzburg through their undying love for the works of Franz Liszt. With his typical naturalness and instantaneity of reflex, Buchbinder will perform the Mephisto Waltz No.1, as well as (for the first time?) a series of Schubert/Liszt transcriptions. Volodos will give a selection from his extensive Liszt repertoire, the catalogue of which contains renderings of famous works by eminent composers raised, so to speak, to a higher power, such as Horowitz’s version of Liszt’s brilliantly triumphal Mendelssohn adaptation, which Volodos used and profited from in his own very justifiable interests. Both Buchbinder and Volodos have chosen works by Schubert for their solo recitals (on 3 August and 8 August respectively) – the one, as it were, a Schubert master playing with the natural Viennese flair, the other a Schubert apprentice from far-off Russia. The performance of the native promises to be no less fascinating than that of the foreigner with its other-language aura. Schubert belongs to the world at large, and all the more exciting should the interpretations of an Austrian prove to be when they are counterpointed with those of a foreigner like Volodos.
Peter Cossé
Monika Rittershaus, Backstage
SOLO RECITALS
3 August 2002, 9 p.m.
Rudolf Buchbinder piano
Franz Liszt
Transcriptions of Schubert lieder, Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Franz Schubert
Sonata in B flat D.960 op. posth.
Grosses Festspielhaus
Tickets available for
€ 30, € 50, € 75 and € 90.
16 August 2002, 7.30 p.m.
Arcadi Volodos piano
Johannes Brahms
Theme and Variations in D minor
Robert Schumann
Kreisleriana
Franz Schubert
Sonata in E, D.157
Franz Liszt
Schubert lieder Transcriptions for piano Hungarian Rhapsody
No. 13 in A minor
Mozarteum
Tickets available for
€ 30, € 45, and € 90.
27 August 2002, 9 p.m.
Krystian Zimerman piano
Programme to be announced later
Grosses Festspielhaus
Tickets available for
€ 15, € 30, € 50, € 75 and € 90.
SOLO CONCERTS
17 August 2002, 8.30 p.m.
Alfred Brendel piano
Joseph Haydn
Piano sonata in G minor, Hob XVl :44
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasia for piano in D minor, K.397 Piano sonata in A minor, K.310 Ludwig
van Beethoven
33 variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli, op. 120
Grosses Festspielhaus
Sold out
18 August 2002, 11 a.m.
Maurizio Pollini piano
Programme to be announced later.
Grosses Festspielhaus
Tickets available for
€ 30, € 50, and € 75.
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