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2008-03-05 l 6.00 p.m.
BRATISLAVA
Reduta - Philharmonie Junior Concerts Cycle
Soloists:
Susanna Artzt l Piano
Bernhard Bär l Trumpet
Spirit of Europe
Martin Sieghart l Conductor
D. SCHOSTAKOWITSCH Piano concerto No. 1 in C minor, op. 35
(Concerto for pianoforte, trumpet und string orchestra)
Tickets:
Stela Szittayová
e: szittayova@filharmonia.sk
t: 00421-2-5920 8219
a: Slovenská filharmónia, Medená 3, 816 01 Bratislava
h: www.filharmonia.sk
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2008-03-06 l 8.00 p.m.
KILB - LOWER AUSTRIA
K4
Soloist l Susanna Artzt | Piano
Spirit of Europe
Martin Sieghart l Conductor
L. v. BEETHOVEN Piano concerto No. 1 in C major, op. 15
h: www.kilb.at/k4
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2008-03-07 | 7.30 p.m.
2008-03-08 | 4.30 p.m.
SCHLOSS LAXENBURG
Soloists:
Susanna Artzt l Piano
Bernhard Bär l Trumpet
Spirit of Europe
Martin Sieghart l Conductor
D. SCHOSTAKOWITSCH Piano concerto No. 1 in C minor, op. 35
(Concerto for pianoforte, trumpet und string orchestra)
Schlossplatz 1 | A-2361 Laxenburg | Österreich
t: +43-(0)2236.712.26-0
f: +43-(0)2236.727.30
e: office@schloss-laxenburg.at
h: www.schloss-laxenburg.at
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2008-03-09 | 7.30 p.m.
CONGRESS CENTER VILLACH
Josef-Resch-Saal
Soloist l Susanna Artzt | Piano
Spirit of Europe
Martin Sieghart l Conductor
L. v. BEETHOVEN Piano concerto No. 1 in C major, op. 15
Europaplatz 1 | A-9500Villach | Österreich
t: +43-(0)4242.205.58.00
f: +43-(0)4242.205.58.99
e: congress.center@villach.at
h: www.villach.at/inhalt/ccv_home.htm
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2008-03-14
Berg i.d. Oberpfalz, Schwarzachtal-Schule
Othmar Müller, violoncello
Susanna Artzt, piano
Chopin Polonaise
Fauré Sonate N°1
Debussy Sonata
Franck Sonata in A major
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2008-03-15
Nürnberg, Schloss Almoshof
Othmar Müller, violoncello
Susanna Artzt, piano
Fauré Sonata N°1
Becker Impromptu
Becker Divertimento (UA)
Debussy Sonata
Franck Sonata in A major
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2008-03-16
Coswig, Villa Teresa
Othmar Müller, violoncello
Susanna Artzt, piano
Brahms Sonata in F major , op.99
Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston
Schumann Adagio & Allegro
Franck Sonata in A major
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2008-03-26
Nürnberg, Kleine Meistersingerhalle
Othmar Müller, violoncello
Susanna Artzt, piano
Becker Divertimento
Becker Sonata for Cello solo
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2008-03-30
Sirnitz, Schloss Albeck
Othmar Müller, violoncello
Susanna Artzt, piano
Chopin Polonaise
Fauré Sonata N°1
Debussy Sonata
Franck Sonata in A major
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2008-03-31
Wien, Ehrbar Saal
Othmar Müller, violoncello
Susanna Artzt, piano
Chopin Polonaise
Becker Sonata for Cello solo
Becker Divertimento
Debussy Sonata
Franck Sonata in A major
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CD REVIEWS
WIENER CHOPIN-BLÄTTER
Journal of the International Chopin Society
in Vienna, summer 2007
„The poetry of dance in sound – and rarities
rediscovered“
This would be a fitting description
of „La Valse“, the latest CD to be released
by the Austrian pianist Susanna Artzt. Maurice Ravel's
great piano composition La Valse (Poème chorégraphique
pour piano seul) opens this hour of music in three-four
time and provides further evidence of her great pianistic
accomplishment when it comes to structure and subtlety
of sound. Judiciously she concludes the recording
with the Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn and the Menuet
antique which display how masterly both composer and
pianist are in early music and counterpoint.
Frédéric Chopin's Three Waltzes op.64
Nos.1-3 (the „Minute Waltz“ in D flat
major with its fascinating perpetuum mobile, as well
as the C sharp minor and A flat major Waltzes) are
uplifting throughout – the sounds close at hand
but issuing from „another world“.
Of the 14 pieces on this CD eight are world premiere
recordings!
The Waltz Impromptus op.9 Nos.1 and 2 by Franz Schreker
(1878-1934) are delicately articulated pieces of positive-sounding
melancholy which turns in on itself or bewitches the
listener with strikingly enchanting melodies.
From Franz Xaver Mozart (1791-1844), the youngest
child of the great Wolfgang Amadeus, we have the Six
Polonaises mélancoliques op.17. His teachers
Joseph Haydn, Nepomuk Hummel, Antonio Salieri and
Georg Albrechtsberger ensured that, at the age of
seventeen, he was artistically equipped to leave Vienna
for Poland (Lviv) where he made a career as a composer,
house tutor and the founder and director of a choir
for almost 30 years. The very interesting and fine-sounding
six Polonaises could be briefly characterised, perhaps,
as follows: „A song of melancholy“, „Faint
echoes of Chopin“, „Euphonious determination“,
„If it must be, then so be it!“, „Explanation
as to why melancholy“, „Search for help
growing more urgent“.
The pianist has earned our gratitude, not only for
her first-class musicianship, but also for her discovery
of rarities.
Helmut Batliner
(Gramola Nr.98809)
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ÖSTERREICHISCHE MUSIKZEITSCHRIFT, January 2007
A high standard of instrumental
playing and interpretational ethos: it is not hard
to sound the praises for pianist Susanna Artzt, who
has now somewhat daringly released a collection of
waltzes for the increasingly active label Gramola.
It offers well-known works by Chopin and Ravel side
by side with charming, now largely neglected polonaises
by Franz Xaver Mozart and waltz impromptus by Schreker
that are also seldom performed: an Austrian pianist
who knows what she wants and who possesses the ability
required to lend form and sound to what it is she
wants.
Peter Cossé
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