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ROBERTO PROSSEDADA
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Roberto Prosseda
started online a new series entitled "The Professional Pianist". He regularly publishes short videos in which he demonstrates on the piano different aspects of the pianistic work which he considers
interesting and important. The first series deals with "How to practice". Here are the links for youtube and facebook.
Another gap in Prossedas comprehensive Mendelssohn
discography has been fiiled by the the DECCA release of Concerts
for 2 pianos, recorded with Alessandra
Ammara.
Together with 1st+2nd piano
concert (released in November 2018), the 3rd piano
concerto (based
on the completed fragment and recorded with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig), a large spectrum
of Mendelssohn's concerts is now available.
Now, there are quite a few good
news for all fans of Prosseda's recording activities: DECCA will re-issue his meanwhile sold out Complete Mendessohn Edirtion in a box with all 10 CDs - completed
by a piece Prosseda only discovered recently: 'Kleine Fuge' MWV U86,.
Complementarily, Mendelssohn's Sonatas
f. violin and piano, recorded with Shlomo
Mintz are planned to be published
by Universal/DECCA Italy in early 2020.
On top of, Prosseda's recordings of
solo piano works be Chopin, originally
released as CD, will be re-issued on Vinyl
in March
2020.
Aside this Romantic repertoiy, Prosseda is planned to record with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra
in June 2020 contemporary works of Italian composers.
For
the 2020 concert season, aside
numerous masterclasses, Prosseda's concert schedule will lead him to
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Denmark, Turkey
and China performing concerts and recitals of the
Romantic era, mainly centered upon Mozart and Mendelssohn.
And an intereresting new duo programm for 2 pianos
or piano 4 hands,
the "Piano Duett" which
Prosseda will perform together
with Alessandra Ammara has ben included in his repertoir.
And
in January 2021, Prosseda
will celebrate the New Year in
Germany, where he will perform a series of concerts
for Pedal Piano with the Stuttgart Philharmonic
orchestra.
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ROBERTO PROSSEDA
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ALESSANDRA AMMARA
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After the
successful release (DECCA 2015) of the complete recording of all works for
piano 4 hands and 2 pianos by Mendelssohn, the
DUO Roberto Prosseda & Alessandra
Ammara, has recorded a 2nd album with the rare concerts for
2 pianos by Mendelssohn.
It has been released on November 14 by Universal/DECCA and is available
at Amazon and international streaming
platforms.
Both recordings are connected
to a common repertoire with corresponding programs including a special
chamber music selection entitled "Piano Duett".
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& ROBERTO PROSSEDA
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After the release of the
Double Concerto for Violin &
Piano by Mendelssohn in July 19,
a second album is gong to be released in early 2020: Mendelssohn's Sonotas for
violin& piano .
Both CDs are distributerd
by Universal/Decca Ital and are connected to corresponding concert and recital
programs.
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SCHLOMO MINTZ
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Presse & Video
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After the release of Mintz' longtime expected album with the
solo sonatas by Ysaye
and Mendelssohn's Double Concerto for
violin & piano recorded with Italian
pianist and Mendelssohn specialist Roberto
Prosseda, an album with
Mendelssohn's
Sonatas f. Violin anf Piano (again performed
with Prosseda)
is programmed to be released in early 2020.
Aside his vocation for pedagigic work
which Mintz engages jhimself insensely in the frame of his regular international masterclasses, Mintz activities in 2020 will be marked
by his increasing interest in
combining his work as soloist with conducting..
Alongside, Shlomo Mintz' upcoming season on
European concert podiums will include
a cycle of solo
sonatas, a duo recital series and
a new
chamber music program with the Philharmonic
Violins Berlin.
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| LUCA
LOMBARDI |
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Press & Video
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For 2020, Lombardi is focusing a quite broad
spectrum of projects:
not only, that he will return to his work upon his new
opera project 
"OFER - Till the end of
the land", the libretto of which is based upon
the novel by Man Booker-Prize winner David Grossmann,
There are also several ideas for new commissions, among them an European
theme, probably a text by late Nobel price winner Günter Grass, and
probably a suite for
piano.
Finally, in view the climate change problem, a plan to complement
his compositions "Terra" and "Mare" by "Vento" and "Sole"
to become a 'Symphony of Elements'.
Aside. there
are also plans to produce several new Cds,
including a recording of his string quartetts.
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| BETTY OLIVERO |
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Betty is looking
forward to an exciting new commission with which she was charged for by
Daniel Barenboim for
the Berlin based Boulez Ensemble.
In July
2020 an orchestra version
of the originakl soundtrack Betty initially composed for Giora Feidman and the Arditti String Quartet to accompany the screening of the famous German silent
Movie "Der Golem"
will premiere in the frame Int. Odessa Film
festival on the legendary Potemkin steps.
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GÜNTER
A. BUCHWALD
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Video footage for all
film concerts
Info Silent movies from
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In many aspects, 2019 was quite spectacular
for Günter and there's reason to believe that 2020 will not be less interesting for him...
After the successful world premier of his new sound track for the silent movie "Die Stadt ohne Juden"
(The city without Jews) in Seattle, Buchwald's new music
for "CASANOVA",
a French-Russian silent movie from
1927, has been premiered with overwhelming succes with the
Freiburg Philharmonic orchestra
conducted by Buchwald.
And the Cinémathèque
Francaise, who has restored the film and helds the
copyright, will release a DVD of the film together with Buchwald's new sound track.
And
since already further performances of Casanova
are programmed for Pordenone,
Bristol, Venice and Paris and not few other film concerts
with his music or with him conducting original sound tracks for
symphony orchestra.
Finally,
in November 2019, the German premier of a chamber version of Buchwald's
music for "Express 300 Miles", a rare silent movie from
Japan, took place in
Berlin.
DVD-Democopies of Buchwalds film concerts with 
Murnaus "Nosferatu" and
"Faust", the Hollywood
production
"The Wind" and the Japanese silent movies
"Sumiko" and "Express 300 Miles" are available.
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JEAN JACQUES LEMETRE
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Audio
Music written for the
ThdS
Music from "Cds à ID"
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There
are 2 new publications available upon Lemêtre's
work and music:
"Jouer avec la musique"
a book upon his work with the Théâtre
du Soleil has been published by Actes-Sud.
And a DVD with 4 films by Anne
Lacombe upon his music, "L'oeil
et l'oreille"
has
been released at Fortdecafe.
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