All Patricia-Kopatchinskaja articles
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Focus’We couldn’t play for ten minutes without an interruption!’
Our October 2021 Session Report features an up-close look at violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Sol Gabetta’s recording sessions for their album ‘Sol & Pat’, out today on Alpha Classics. Here, they share some of the challenges faced during the process
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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say perform Bartok: Three Romanian Folk Dances
Check out this recent performance that will make you wish you could play artificial harmonics with such dexterity
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Joonas Ahonen play Schoenberg
The violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and pianist Joonas Ahonen play Schoenberg’s Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op.47 in August 2020 as part of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. Read: ‘Now I am completely mad’ – Patricia Kopatchinskaja on playing Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire
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‘Now I am completely mad’ - Patricia Kopatchinskaja on playing Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire
For violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja a bout of tendonitis was the perfect opportunity to widen her musical perspective by taking on the title role in Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, as she tells Toby Deller
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Gstaad Menuhin Festival slated to go ahead this summer
The festival is scheduled to run from 16 July to 4 September 2021
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A day in the life of Patricia Kopatchinskaja
This video, made in 2012, follows the Moldovan-Austrian violinist over a 24-hour period, through rehearsals with the Staatskapelle, salon music at the Brandenburg Gate, a meeting with choreographer Sascha Waltz and her husband, phone calls with her sick daughter and a performance at the Berlin Philharmonic. Patricia Kopatchinskaja shares her ...
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Beethoven at Gstaad Menuhin Festival
The Moldovan-born violinist gave this recital with pianist Joonas Ahonen at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy on August 15th. The programme included Webern’s 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7; Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’; and John Cage’s Nocturne. Read: ...
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Dominik Wagner and Patricia Kopatchinskaja on writing their own cadenzas
Cadenza writing has enjoyed a renewed surge in popularity over recent years. In this article by Pauline Harding, two soloists - Dominik Wagner and Patricia Kopatchinskaja - talk about their individual approaches to writing cadenzas
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Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie plans to reopen in September 2020
The Hamburg-based Elbphilharmonie is planning to reopen in September, with tickets sold on the basis of ’Book now, pay later’
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Premiere of the month: Márton Illés’s Én-kör III
Patricia Kopatchinskaja to perform new work requiring ‘power, precision and virtuosity’
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‘It is so unviolinistic’
Patricia Kopatchinskaja on the heartbreak and pain of Schumann’s Violin Concerto
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Review
Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Time & Eternity
A passionate, challenging and ultimately fascinating ‘concept’ album
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja wins Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland’s Würth Prize
Patricia Kopatchinskaja receives the Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland, endowed with €15,000
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Premium ❘ Feature
Power of two
In early May, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Sol Gabetta premiered Akin, a new double concerto written for them by Michel van der Aa. Pwyll ap Siôn attended this performance, in Cologne, Germany, and spoke to composer and soloists about bringing the work to the stage
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Hersch
A hyper-expressive account of music by this contemporary US composer
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja on playing Pierrot Lunaire
Here Patricia Kopatchinskaja talks about playing Pierrot Lunaire, a project the violinist first conceived while she was unable to practise due to an arm injury. ‘All my life I’ve felt that I was Pierrot. Whenever I played the piece on my violin as a student which I I spoke the ...
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Polina Leschenko: Deux – works by Poulenc, Bartók and Ravel
POULENC Violin Sonata; DELIBES/DOHNÁNYI Waltz from Coppélia; BARTÓK Violin Sonata no.2; RAVEL Tzigane
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta play Ravel duo
Filmed in a concert at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2014, this video features Austrian-Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performing the third movement of Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Jennifer Higdon pick up 2018 Grammys
Higdon’s Viola Concerto earns her two trophies at 60th Grammy Awards with Kopatchinskaja’s the only one for a classical string player
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Classical strings in the 60th Grammy Awards nominations
The Recording Academy unveils nominations for all categories, including nods for Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Augustin Hadelich, Steven Isserlis and Frank Peter Zimmermann
