[Yuliya's Performances] Grieg Concerto webcast

[Yuliya Gorenman's Performance Announcements]

Dear Friends,

 

I recently performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Valley Symphony Orchestra in McAllen, Texas.  The performance will be broadcast on the web by the Brownsville, Texas public radio station KMBH today, Friday April 9, at 12:15 PM Central Time (1:15 PM Eastern Daylight Saving Time or GMT-5).  To listen, point your web browser to http://www.kmbh.org/radio/ and click on the "88FM Live Online" link.

 

But you don't have to wait until the broadcast.  You can listen to the concerto on the web now by going to:

 

    http://www.americansinfonietta.org/SymphonyShowcase/VSO27Grieg.mp3

 

I don't know how long this link will remain active, but I imagine it will be available at least until the Friday broadcast.



Enjoy the Grieg Concerto as well as the review below. 

All the best,

Yuliya



STATE OF THE ARTS



By Alex Suczek 



 



   "...But for a symphony concert, the big event still remained the appearance of an accomplished Russian pianist to revive for us the romantic and folksy Norwegian strains of Grieg’s unique concerto. Yuliya Gorenman began her studies in her native land and then continued them in the U.S. She certainly has not forgotten her early lessons. There was power and mood to the grander passages of the concerto, perhaps more than has been customary in the t raditional romantic treatment of this thoroughly romantic piece of music. She is a powerful player and appears=2
0to enjoy showing her strength. It would serve her well in music of Beethoven or Liszt. Her bravura treatment of Grieg’s opening allegro moved the audience to applaud her generously at the end of the first movement. In the lyrical second movement, on the other hand, the music swept her and the orchestra along together in a tender and poetic expression of the folk music of his country that inspired Grieg. It had the feeling of a Norwegian folk dance, throbbing with mysterious vitality. The third movement allegro was the occasion of still more power on Gorenman’s part and projected an air of joy that was captivating. In response to the generous applause, Gorenman returned to the piano with the pensive slow movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata...." 




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