Grinberg Classical Salon Series
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Dear Friends!
This Winter / Spring 2023 Season, I am thrilled to be hosting the 10th year of the Grinberg Classical Salon Series on New York’s Upper West Side – a one-of-a-kind salon concerts in revival of the old and elegant European tradition of Hausmusik – in celebration of Sergey Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday and the composers within his circle!
“Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for Music,” said Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) – a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor widely regarded as one of the finest pianists of his day and one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian Classical music. Rachmaninoff is celebrated for his amorous expression, sweeping melodies, sumptuous, ultra-chromatic harmonies, bell-like sonorities, and rich orchestral colors. His prolific compositional output includes a number of orchestral works, choral works, many songs for voice and piano, three one-act operas, five works for piano and orchestra, a large body of solo piano music, works for two pianos, piano four-hands, and a few chamber music works, including two piano trios and his celebrated Cello Sonata. This coming Spring season, don’t miss one-of-a-kind thematic salons in celebration of Rachmaninoff alongside the composers who influenced him and followed in his footsteps, including works by Glinka, all five composers of “The Mighty Five” (Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin), Anton Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Taneyev, Arensky, Medtner, Myaskovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke, and Auerbach.
To learn more about the upcoming salons, scroll down below.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Best wishes,
Dr. Yelena Grinberg, the founder and the artistic director of Grinberg Classical Salon Series
PS: To be added to the salon email list, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at [email protected] or sign up here.
SALON VIDEO CLIP:
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SALON REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS:
New York’s Great Champion of Undeservedly Obscure Classical Repertoire Shares These Treasures at Her Magical Salon Series – Lucid Culture – October 24th, 2021
Musical Salons for the Book of Guinness Records – Etazhi, journal – July 19th, 2021
Yelena Grinberg Rescues Rare Classical Treasures from Obscurity – New York Music Daily – June 4th, 2019
Live from the Living Room – West Side Spirit – February 4th, 2015
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SUPPORT GRINBERG CLASSICAL SALON SERIES
RACHMANINOFF AND HIS WORLD II
Sunday, April 2nd, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 5th, 2023, at 6:30 p.m.
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
ELENA KUSCHNEROVA, piano
GLINKA – Capriccio on the Russian themes for piano four-hands (1834)
RUBINSTEIN – Chanson Russe from 3 Characteristic Pieces, op. 9 (1854)
ARENSKY – 12 Pieces for piano four-hands, op. 66 (1903)
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GLINKA – Valse-Fantasie in B minor, arr. by Anton Arensky (1839, rev. 1845)
STRAVINSKY – Five Easy Pieces for piano four-hands (1917)
RACHMANINOFF – Six Morceaux for piano four-hands, op. 11 (1894)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at [email protected]
RUSSIAN MASTERWORKS II
Sunday, April 16th, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 19th, 2023, at 6:30 p.m.
MICHAEL HAAS, cello
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
TCHAIKOVSKY – Nocturne in D minor, op. 19 (1873)
ARENSKY – Romance in D Major for cello and piano, op. 56, no. 2 (1894)
GLAZUNOV – Chant du Menestrel for cello and piano, op. 71 (1901)
MYASKOVSKY – Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Major, op. 12 (1911)
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PROKOFIEV – Adagio in C Major from Prince and Cinderella, arr. for cello and piano, op. 97bis (1944)
RACHMANINOFF – Sonata in G minor for cello and piano, op. 19 (1901)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at [email protected]
RACHMANINOFF AND HIS CIRCLE I
Sunday, April 30th, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023, at 6:30 p.m.
G-SHARP DUO
EMILIE-ANNE GENDRON, violin
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
RACHMANINOFF – Romance in D minor for violin and piano, op. 6 (1892)
BORODIN – Nocturne in A Major from String Quartet in D Major, arr. for violin and piano (1881)
STRAVINSKY – Divertimento (After the Fairy’s Kiss) for violin and piano (1934)
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RUBINSTEIN – Romance in E-flat Major from Soirees a Saint-Petersbourg for violin and piano, op. 44 (1859)
PROKOFIEV – Five Melodies for violin and piano (1920)
MYASKOVSKY – Violin Sonata in F Major (1946-47)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at [email protected]
RACHMANINOFF AND HIS CIRCLE II
Sunday, May 14th, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023, at 6:30 p.m.
G-SHARP DUO
EMILIE-ANNE GENDRON, violin
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
TCHAIKOVSKY – Souvenir d’un lier cher for violin and piano, op. 42 (1878)
ARENSKY – 4 Morceaux for violin and piano, op. 30 (1894)
RACHMANINOFF – Hungarian Melody in D minor from Deux Morceaux, op. 6 (1893)
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SHOSTAKOVICH – Select Preludes for violin and piano, op. 34 (1932-33)
AUERBACH – Select Preludes for violin and piano (1999)
PROKOFIEV – Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, op. 94a (1949)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at [email protected]
RUSSIAN PIANO TRIOS I
Sunday, June 4th, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2023, at 6:30 p.m.
DAVID MARKS, violin
TBA, cello
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
TCHAIKOVSKY – June (Barcarolle) from The Seasons, op. 37a (1875)
MEDTNER – Canzona and Dance in C Major for violin and piano, op. 22 (1922-24)
GLINKA – Trio Pathetique in D minor for violin, cello and piano (1832)
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BORODIN – Pastorale from Cello Sonata in B minor (1860)
ARENSKY – Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, op. 32 (1894)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at [email protected]
RUSSIAN PIANO TRIOS II
Sunday, June 18th, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 21st, 2023, at 6:30 p.m.
DAVID MARKS, violin
TBA, cello
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
TCHAIKOVSKY – Humoreske for violin and piano, op. 10 (1871-72)
RACHMANINOFF – Trio Elegiaque No. 1 in G minor (1892)
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ARENSKY – Chante triste in F# minor for cello and piano, op. 56 (1894)
TANEYEV – Piano Trio in D Major, op. 22 (1906-08)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at [email protected]
