~Program~
Robert Schumann : Adagio and Allegro in A-flat
Major, Op. 70
Ludwig van Beethoven : Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3
in A Major, Op. 69 Allegro ma non
tanto
Scherzo. Allegro molto
Adagio cantabile – Allegro vivace
~ Intermission ~
Sergei Rachmaninoff : Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor Op.
19
Lento – Allegro moderato
Allegro scherzando
Andante
Allegro mosso
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Foundation for
Chinese Performing Arts
Quote from Nicolas
Sterner of The Boston Musical Intelligencer, in a
title “Rendering Warhorses With Apollonian Clarity”
“ Enjoying our first in-person concert in a year, we
joined 60 socially distanced people on Saturday
night at the Gardner Museum. NEC Artist Diploma
laureate, cellist Brannon Cho, and Leeds
International Piano Competition gold medalist Eric
Lu, brought out warhorses: Schumann, Beethoven, and
Rachmaninoff. These two artists performed their
“set” with a technical mastery and perfunctory
polish emblematic of the up-and-coming generation of
young soloists and recitalists. ... Since the cello
parts are mostly written subordinate to the dazzling
keyboard passagework crafted by the
pianist-composers. Even more challenging, the
cellist must compete with a massive Steinway Model
D. Cho and Lu surmounted these difficulties with
moderate ease, aligning in exemplary ensemble
clarity within a somewhat narrow expressive range. “
Eric Lu appears courtesy Warner Classics available
till June 4, 2021
With
permission from pianist Robert Finley, quotes from
his comments on concert April 17, 2021 by Brannon
Cho and Eric Lu:
“Last night I went to my first concert in Boston
since before the pandemic started. It was a piano
and cello recital given by Eric Lu and Brannon Cho
in the new Calderwood Hall of the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum. This was the first concert I had
been to in that hall.
“I enjoyed the concert tremendously. Brannon Cho
produced a lovely singing tone on the cello with
superb intonation, and very expressive playing. Eric
played wonderfully as always, and it was a very
moving performance. He is one of the most musical
and best pianists I have ever known. They both
played extremely well together.
“Eric and Brannon received tremendous applause and
cheering from the audience. They gave a lovely
rendition of Vocalise by Rachmaninoff for an encore.
Bravissimo and congratulations to them for their
absolutely divine concert.
“It was so good to go to a concert again after being
under lockdown at home for so long. The Calderwood
Hall has very good acoustics. It is square shaped
with several balconies. Due to Covid precautions,
there were 64 people in the audience. Everyone wore
a mask and the seats were spaced widely apart. My
seat was on the ground floor, a few feet away from
the piano. Kate Liu turned the pages for Eric. She
is a marvelous pianist and gave a recital of music
by Handel, Chopin and Schumann a few weeks ago in
the same hall. I watched the recording and
congratulated her. Her Schumann Fantasy was
particularly moving. “
“Leeds
winner Eric Lu showed an astonishing command of keyboard tone
and color.. the sign he is already a true artist. It was a
spellbinding experience.” – The Guardian
“Lu’s playing is in a rare class - sensitive and emotionally
intuitive.” – BBC Music Magazine
Eric Lu won First Prize at The Leeds International Piano
Competition in 2018, the first American to win the prestigious
prize since Murray Perahia. He made his BBC Proms debut the
following summer at the Royal Albert Hall, and is currently a
member of the BBC New Generation Artist scheme. Eric is an
exclusive Warner Classics recording artist.
Highlights of the 2020-21 season include debuts with the London
Symphony Orchestra (Marin Alsop), Seattle Symphony (Thomas
Dausgaard), Oslo Philharmonic (Constantinos Carydis), Royal
Stockholm Philharmonic (Thomas Dausgaard) and Detroit Symphony
(Eduardo Strausser). He will also give recitals at the
Elbphilharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall (International Piano
Series), Cologne Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, NY’s 92nd St Y, and
NCPA in Beijing.
In recent seasons, Eric has appeared in recital at Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, BOZAR Brussels, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Wigmore
Hall, St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Fondation Louis Vuitton
Paris, Seoul Arts Centre, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Grand Theatre
Shanghai, and Sala São Paulo. He has collaborated with the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic (Vasily Petrenko), The Hallé (Sir Mark
Elder and Tomáš Hanus), Shanghai Symphony (Long Yu), Warsaw
Philharmonic (Niklas Willén), Singapore Symphony (Darío Ntaca),
and Swedish Chamber Orchestra (Thomas Dausgaard and Martin Frӧst).
He also went on tour with the Orchestre National de Lille
(Alexander Bloch). In 2019, Eric replaced Martha Argerich in
Singapore, and Nelson Freire in São Paulo.
In 2020, Warner Classics released Eric’s first studio album,
featuring the Chopin 24 Preludes, and Schumann’s
Geistervariationen. It was met with critical acclaim, including
BBC Music Magazine’s ‘Instrumental Record of the Month’. In
2018, Eric’s winning performances of Beethoven and Chopin from
The Leeds with The Hallé and Edward Gardner was released by
Warner. He has also released a Mozart, Schubert and Brahms
recital on Genuin Classics.
Born in Massachusetts in 1997, Eric Lu first came to
international attention as a prize-winner at the 2015 Chopin
International Competition in Warsaw aged just 17. He previously
won the 2015 US National Chopin Competition, and was awarded the
International German Piano Award in 2017. He is a graduate of
the Curtis Institute of Music, studying with Robert McDonald and
Jonathan Biss. He is also a pupil of Dang Thai Son. He is now
based in Berlin and Boston.
Brannon Cho, cellist https://brannoncho.com
Described
by Arto Noras as “a finished artist, ready to play in any hall
in the world,” cellist Brannon Cho has emerged as an outstanding
musician of his generation. He is the First Prize winner of the
prestigious 6th International Paulo Cello Competition, and is
also a prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth, Naumburg, and
Cassadó International Cello Competitions.
Brannon Cho has appeared as a soloist with many of the top
orchestras around the world, including the Helsinki Philharmonic
Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra,
Brussels Philharmonic, and Orchestre Philharmonique Royale Liège,
under world-renowned conductors such as Susanna Mälkki, Stéphane
Denève, and Christian Arming.
As a lover of chamber music, Brannon Cho has shared the stage
with artists such as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Christian Tetzlaff,
Gidon Kremer, and Joshua Bell. His recent festival appearances
include Marlboro, Kronberg Academy, Music@Menlo, and Verbier. In
addition, Brannon Cho is a scholarship holder in the Anne-Sophie
Mutter Foundation, and the recipient of the 2019 Ivan Galamian
Award, which was previously held by James Ehnes.
Brannon Cho’s recent and upcoming solo performance highlights
include debuts in Wigmore Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie
Hall, the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam, Kumho Art Hall in Seoul,
Konzerthaus Berlin, Seoul Arts Center, the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum, and New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall.
Born in New Jersey, Brannon Cho received his Bachelor’s degree
from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music under Hans
Jørgen Jensen. He was awarded the prestigious Artist Diploma
from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with
Laurence Lesser. Today, he is in the Professional Studies
program at the Kronberg Academy, under the tutelage of Frans
Helmerson. Brannon Cho is sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld, and
performs on a rare cello made by Antonio Casini in 1668 in
Modena, Italy.
中華表演藝術基金會上週六4月17日，邀請今年2021艾利費舍爾職業獎(Avery
Fisher Career Award)得主及里茲(Leeds)
國際鋼琴大賽第一名鋼琴家陸逸軒Eric Lu 及保羅Paulo
國際大提琴大賽第一名韓裔大提琴家Brannon Cho 聯合演出一場精彩的音樂會。
音樂會在波士頓伊莎貝拉博物館(Isabella
Stewart
Gardner Museum) 新穎美觀的方型四層樓可容300人的Calderwood
Hall大廳中舉行。這次可以允許64人在場，戴口罩保持社交距離，個別分散入座。雖然人數仍舊很少，但比起三月份只准10人到場。已算寬容很多了。本場演出由原訂一月份因疫情延期至今，大家都帶著期待歡喜的心情來參加這“半正常”的音樂會。
波士頓音樂雜誌
The Boston Musical
Intelligencer 的樂評兼大提琴及指揮家Nicolas
Sterner以”用強勢並且高超的清新手法駕馭戰馬“
為標題，盛讚兩位演出者的水平。他說“上週六是我一年來首次參加實體音樂會。聆聽里茲國際鋼琴大賽金牌Eric
Lu 及已獲有紐英倫音樂學院最高學位藝術家文憑的Brannon
Cho 演出。
雖然這是他們第一次合作，但兩人融洽無間，掌握這些具高度挑戰性的曲子，輕鬆自如，明確清晰。
舒曼，貝多芬，拉赫瑪尼諾夫這三位作曲家，本身也是鋼琴家，對鋼琴的要求特別高。對大提琴來說，要和九英尺大鋼琴達到協調，有其明顯的難度。
但對這兩位演出者好像並沒有任何困難。音量平衡的恰到好處。Brannon
Cho用的這把1668年Casini名琴，更是如歌似韻，令人陶醉。
最後的安可曲拉赫瑪尼諾夫的Vocalise更顯出大提琴如男高音般的華麗。』
Described
by Arto Noras as “a finished artist, ready to play in any hall
in the world,” cellist Brannon Cho has emerged as an outstanding
musician of his generation. He is the First Prize winner of the
prestigious 6th International Paulo Cello Competition, and is
also a prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth, Naumburg, and
Cassadó International Cello Competitions. 
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