Piano Solo
Carlos Chávez - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
performed 10/29/2022 & 10/30/2022 Mandeville Auditorium Ruben Valenzuela, conductor |
Carlos Chávez - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
(live performance, 10/29/2022 & 10/30/2022)
from La Jolla Symphony & Chorus: "Powerful Nature"
Mandeville Auditorium / La Jolla, California
Carlos Chávez - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1940)
Kyle Adam Blair, piano soloist
Ruben Valenzuela, conductor
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"The ensemble’s concert was a rare chance to hear Carlos Chávez’s Piano Concerto, with pianist Kyle Adam Blair delivering a heroic performance as soloist...
...a sprawling 1940 work that requires great stamina from the pianist undertaking it and great patience from listeners...
Kyle Adam Blair was the brave soul who mastered this piece. The piano part provides little repose for the soloist.
In the massive first movement, Blair maneuvered through thickets of counterpoint or hammered away at disjointed accents. The second movement slowed things down considerably. In the opening few minutes, harpist Laura Vaughan-Angelova joined Blair in a piquant, plangent duet..."
- Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune
(live performance, 10/29/2022 & 10/30/2022)
from La Jolla Symphony & Chorus: "Powerful Nature"
Mandeville Auditorium / La Jolla, California
Carlos Chávez - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1940)
Kyle Adam Blair, piano soloist
Ruben Valenzuela, conductor
- - -
"The ensemble’s concert was a rare chance to hear Carlos Chávez’s Piano Concerto, with pianist Kyle Adam Blair delivering a heroic performance as soloist...
...a sprawling 1940 work that requires great stamina from the pianist undertaking it and great patience from listeners...
Kyle Adam Blair was the brave soul who mastered this piece. The piano part provides little repose for the soloist.
In the massive first movement, Blair maneuvered through thickets of counterpoint or hammered away at disjointed accents. The second movement slowed things down considerably. In the opening few minutes, harpist Laura Vaughan-Angelova joined Blair in a piquant, plangent duet..."
- Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune