Oppens

Well, at least we back here in Sherman Oaks will get Thomas Ades in late May at the Green Umbrella series, as well as the Ursula Oppens/Joana Carneiro concert tomorrow night, March 25.

No excuses 2008

Miss Oppens made the separation of the parts for each hand audible and intelligible.

December, 1908 Lisa Hirsch 2008

Miss Oppens gave a typically awesome reading of Night Fantasies, and she ended with Caténaires, a piece from 2006 that until this year was performed exclusively by Pierre Laurent Aimard.

December, 1908 Lisa Hirsch 2008

I stayed with the Oppens George Oppen, U.S. poet and wife Mary Colby and they were lovely.

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Oppens is terrifically poised in the "legato" etude, and ferociously efficient in the forbidding opening etude for left hand alone.

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I stayed with the Oppens George Oppen, U.S. poet and wife Mary Colby and they were lovely.

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Ursula Oppens captured its lilt and understated humor on Sunday evening in a recital that also included pointed, energetic accounts of Jason Eckardt's harmonically brittle "Cuts" (1996); Bernard Rands's fragmented but glancingly Debussian "Tre Espressioni" (1960); Mr. Picker's rollicking "Four études for Ursula" (1996); and

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"Winging It" may be the title, but Oppens does anything but.

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Winging It, a new album of Corigliano's piano music played by Ursula Oppens.

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(Retrouvailles, from 2000, Two Diversions, a piece for children from 1999 that we heard played by Jean-Marie Cottet at La Maison Française, and Intermittences, from 2006), Oppens supersedes the earlier Rosen disc in terms of its completeness.

Ionarts 2009