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"Brendel's playing is distinguished by its heightened intellectual and emotional intensity, by his ability to energize details while sustaining taut lines, by his infallible grasp of musical architecture and by his extraordinary empathy with composers. His performances often achieve a sense of inevitability. Surely, a listener feels, this is what the composer intended."
~ Time "One of the defining performers of our age"
~ Boston Globe "The audience felt as if he had taken them on a miraculous adventure of mind and music"
~ Chicago Tribune
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ALFRED BRENDEL on first US lecture tour
 Pianist ALFRED BRENDEL kicked off a US lecture tour this week, offering his presentation, "On Character in Music", at the Philharmonic Society of Orange County.
"By assigning Beethoven's sonatas characters, descriptive phases, moods and other labels, he turns analysis, often so mathematical and structural, into a kind of poetry, available to the everyman. And though based on solid scholarship, he has fun with it, uses his imagination...Hearing Brendel talk about and play them again, even if in small slices, was a reminder of why he was such a great, beloved musician for so many years. He made them vivid for us." Timothy Mangan, The OC REGISTER, October 27, 2009
October 26 • Philharmonic Society of Orange County
October 30 • University of California, Berkeley
November 4 - 6 • New England Conservatory of Music
November 9 • Princeton University
November 11 • Yale University
November 16 • Washington Performing Arts Society (D.C.)
November 18 - 22 • The Juilliard School, co-sponsored by Carnegie Hall
Click here to read The Times Oct. 3, 2009 interview with Mr. Brendel, sharing his thoughts on life after performance, absurdist poetry, humor in music and more. (November 2009)
Alfred Brendel returns to North America for recitals, Dada-esque poetry readings and more
Alfred Brendel is in the U.S. this month for his annual North American tour. With readings from his various books of Dada-esque poetry and recitals in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Vancouver, at Carnegie Hall and elsewhere, as well as the Mozart Piano Concerto K.453 with the Boston and Chicago symphony orchestras, the acclaim is universal:
"There are other ways to serve up this timeless music. For two delightful hours Sunday, Brendel's seemed the only way."
- Michael Cameron for the CHIGAGO TRIBUNE, March 6, 2007
"When Brendel sits down at the Steinway, as he did Tuesday night when he gave a recital in Walt Disney Concert Hall, all the world drops away."
- Mark Swed for the LOS ANGELES TIMES, March 15, 2007
"His is always an intimate rapport with the music, and he seems to shed light on everything he plays. Beethoven's Op. 110 Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, with its two sublime ariosos, came next in a brilliantly luminous reading; Brendel's playing was of the highest order, its beauty of tone and poetic sensibility always in service to the composer's voice."
- Georgia Rowe for the CONTRA COSTA TIMES, March 19, 2007 (March 2007)
The incomparable Alfred Brendel - Brilliant
technical and expressive skills
No discussion of pianists can be complete without mention of the
incomparable Alfred Brendel. A musician who has built a career
on brilliant
technical and expressive skills, Mr. Brendelšs performance is
intimate,
thought provoking and utterly exceptional. This season he
toured the US
with acclaimed recital and concert appearances, rounded off by a
reading of
his poetry at the New York Public Library. (April 2006)
Alfred Brendel plays Mozart's Piano Concerto K.595 with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle at Carnegie Hall.
Alfred Brendel plays the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major,
K. 595 with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle at Carnegie Hall on
January 27th, the first concert of his annual month-long tour of North America
when he also appears with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the
Minnesota Orchestra and in recitals returning to Carnegie Hall for a program of
Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert on February 27th. (January 2006)
"A Master Conjures Magical Moments" headlines the review of
Alfred Brendel's recent Seattle recital.
ALFRED BRENDEL began his annual month-long American tour with 3 sold out performances of Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 with James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and received standing ovations every night. In addition to Seattle and his yearly concerts in Carnegie Hall and Chicago, Brendel's sold out recital stops this season include Denver, Santa Barbara, Ottawa, St. Paul, and his first appearance ever in North Carolina's newly re-opened Meymandi Concert Hall. His recital audience in Ottawa will have the extra added perq of a Brendel poetry reading, to be recorded by the CBC for future broadcast. Stay tuned..... (March 2005)
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