I would like to thank Robert Chumbley, Jonathan Cziner, Joseph Patrych and Navona Records for their participation in the making of Brahmsiana
I would like to thank Robert Chumbley, Jonathan Cziner, Joseph Patrych and Navona Records for their participation in the making of Brahmsiana
Joseph Patrych interviews concert pianist Steven Masi on the subjects of Brahms and new works by Robert Chumbly and Jonathan Cziner.
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Performing Beethoven’s “Archduke” and “Ghost” Trios
SUNDAY, MARCH 1st, 4 PM
Eric Brown Theater jccotp.org/Thumauer
Tenafly NJ
Admission Free. Suggested Donation: $10/person
To reserve tickets: call 201-408-1466, email [email protected] or visit jccotp.org/Thumauer Reservations strongly encouraged. last year’s concert sold out.
Part of Thurnauer’s Faculty Recital Series
Supported by the Michael and Dede Le\ritt Faculty Fund; the 25th Anniversary Foculry Fund; and the Richard H. Holzer Memorial Foundation.
(++++) BRAHMS AND BEYOND
Brahms’ own later pieces, however, often have a succinctness that in no way reduces their communicative potential. In particular, his final four works for solo piano, Opp. 116-119, are intimate, personal, nostalgic, mostly quiet, and very much unlike his earlier, expansive, virtuosic and large-scale piano music. Pianist Steven Masi uses this fact to excellent effect on a new Navona CD on which he plays Brahms’ Op. 117 and Op. 118 – plus two contemporary pieces that are responses to and commentaries upon Brahms’ music. This could easily degenerate into an exchange of consonance for dissonance, a set of variations unrecognizable in their relationship to Brahms’ original material, or some other form of “tribute” that would be self-aggrandizing and would not elucidate anything. But that is not what happens here, thanks to the Continue reading BRAHMS AND BEYOND
Brahmsiana
Music by and Inspired by Brahms
Steven Masi piano (Navona Records)
This unique release celebrates the highly introspective solo piano music of Johannes Brahms, as well as the ties that bind across the ages, with two new contemporary works inspired by the late romantic composer included as paired “companion pieces.” Continue reading The Winnipeg Free Press Review of Brahmsiana
Brahmsiana: Music by and Inspired By Brahms
Steven Masi, piano
Navona Records 6260
Total Time: 78:26
Recording: ****/****
Performance: ****/****
Steven Masi has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. More recently he undertook a massive project of recording all of Beethoven’s sonatas which was well-received. For this program, he has paired two modern works with their own roots connected to two of Brahms’ memorable piano collections (Op. 117, and 118). The sense of looking back and reflecting on one’s place in history is something which thematically links all four works on this new release. Continue reading Cinemusical Review of Brahmsiana
Welcome to the introduction to the second group of concert piano tutorials by concert pianist Steven Masi.
In the second series we will be posting the following tutorials:
The Waldstein and its unique sound