2011 Tour of New Zealand
One of the world’s foremost Schubert interpreters is now resident in New Zealand, and 2011 marks his inaugural tour of the country. Both programmes showcase his extraordinary expertise in the middle European Romantic tradition, and his inclusion of Gareth Farr’s tour de force “Sepuluh Jari” demonstrate he’s discovered the best of New Zealand tradition as well. Take this opportunity to experience the NEW New Zealand pianist everyone is talking about!
Dates
Kerikeri Saturday 2 April 2011 at 7:30 pm at The Centre at Kerikeri | Programme 1 (Kerikeri National Piano Competition Trust and The Centre at Kerikeri)
Waikanae Sunday, 15 May 2011 at 2:30 pm in the Waikanae Memorial Hall, Pehi Kupa St | Programme 1 (Waikanae Music Society)
Tauranga Sunday, 22 May 2011 at 3.00pm Bethlehem College Performing Arts Centre | Programme 2 (Tauranga Musica)
Auckland Friday, 27 May Opening Concert of the Fazioli Series, 8 p.m. | Programme 2 (Auckland War Memorial Museum)
Nelson Wednesday 21 July 2011 at 7 p.m. at The Nelson School of Music | PGM 1 (Nelson Festival)
Wellington Sunday 24 July 2011 at 3 pm 2011, Illott Concert Chamber | Programme 2 (Wellington Chamber Music Society)
Whangarei Sunday, 30 October 2011 at 3 pm at the Capitaine Bougainville Theatre, Whangarei | Programme 2 (Whangarei Music Society)
See programmes below
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Michael gives his Australian debut with the Grieg Piano Concerto on 30 April 2011 in Brisbane with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra
And in March and April 2011 -- in an effort to give back to the community -- he presents a striking programme of the complete Schubert Sonatas over four nights in Maurice Till Hall at the Christchurch Music Centre, Barbadoes Street, Christchurch. Proceeds will go to the Red Cross Christchurch earthquake fund:
- Sunday 20th March 3pm
- Sun 27 March 3pm
- Saturday 9 April 8pm
- Sunday 17 April 3pm
Michael continues to concertize in his native Germany, and in July this year returns again to the Newport Chamber Music Festival.
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Programmes
Program One
Franz Schubert
- 4 Impromptus Opus 90
GARETH FARR
- Sepuluh Jari (NZ 1996)
--Interval--
Franz Liszt
Sonata b-minor
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- Bamboula
- Souvenir de puerto Rico
- Souvenir d’Andalousie
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Program Two
Franz Schubert
- Sonata A-major D 959 Op. Posth
GARETH FARR
- Sepuluh Jari (NZ 1996)
--Interval--
Robert Schumann
- Carnaval Opus 9
Leopold Godowsky
- Concert paraphrase on Johann Strauss
“Wine, Women and Song”
Michael Endres In Recital...
“The performances with the pianist Michael Endres were revelatory”.
New York Times
"…the equal of the greatest Schubert interpreters: Serkin, Arrau, Brendel.”
La Monde de la Musique
"...Curzon, Richter, Pollini, Brendel, Perahia, and Kissin, among others -- and Endres' belongs to that elite group.
Charles Timbrell, Fanfare Magazine, Jan/Feb 2010
What Boston Globe critic Richard Dyer said about Michael's Newport Music Festival recital
Endres has made an admirable series of records for Capriccio and Oehms Classics -- Mozart, Ravel, Weber, Schumann, and the finest recent account of the complete Schubert sonatas -- but the CDs don't begin to do him justice. They are poised, thoughtful, and expressive, but there is no hint of the wild-man risk-taking that marked his Newport recital. Endres took big chances, communicated how thrilling every dimension of the music was to him, and succeeded triumphantly against the odds.
With his spectacles, sport coat, and bow tie, Endres looked a bit professorial, but that was before the music took complete possession of his body; no one has stomped the pedal this enthusiastically since Rudolf Serkin.
He opened with Schubert, a bold and passionate account of the A-major Sonata (D. 959). There was no mincing around, and the crazy storm that broke into the gentle barcarolle of the slow movement was terrifying. Endres followed this up with three vigorously tuneful showpieces by the 19th-century American pianist/composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, delivered with tremendous rhythmic élan and robust humor.
Michael Endres
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