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Macau Daily Times

Author: admin
06.06.2009

MACAO ORCHESTRA  Friday, 05 June 2009

 

Classics Series

“The Great Symphony” Concert

One of the most outstanding modern-day classical pianists, Valentina Igoshina, “the new star of the legendary Russian piano school” is joining the Macao Orchestra and Conductor Lü Jia on stage tomorrow at 8pm at the Macao Tower Auditorium.
Valentina  shows in each of her performances the difference between being a good pianist and being an artist. Macao will be subject to the mesmerizing effect of seeing a true creative spirit in action.
The challenge that Igoshina will face tomorrow evening constitutes an exponential model  of ’s virtuosic and orchestral writing. The composer’s Second Piano Concerto is widely considered to be his masterpiece and has even been compared to Tchaikovsky’s famous Piano Concerto No.1. colourful harmony and appealing melody, together with its combination of both classical and romantic styles, produce a sense of special enchantment and make it the most beloved piano concerto in Russia and one of the most popular around the world.
After seeing her performance of ‘Rach 2’, music critic Mario Cordova said “Valentina Igoshina proved to be a pianist of the highest order whose brilliant technical ability brought an indisputable triumph when playing the famous and complex Rachmaninov No. 2.” (Las Ultimas Noticia, 2007).
Valentina Igoshina has participated in numerous recitals and musical festivals all over the world, consistently giving rise to the most enthusiastic critical acclaim.
Igoshina has been invited by such famous orchestras as BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the United Kingdom or the Concertgebouw Royal Orchestra in Amsterdam. She has also participated in various recordings and has received countless international awards, which renders her career one of the most vertiginous and exciting ones in the classical pianistic panorama. Tomorrow’s concert will certainly confirm it once again.
In addition to Rachmaninov’s Concerto, the repertoire will also feature Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 (“The Great”), whose vigorous rhythm expresses the fervor of passion and the vitality of youth. With this work of genius, Schubert reached the height of his poetic conception and imagination. A wonderful piece, with which the Macao Orchestra is sure to enthrall the audience at the Macao Tower Auditorium.
Tickets for the concert are available at all Kong Seng Ticketing outlets at MOP 120, 80 (Telephone Bookings: 2855 5555). 40% discount is available for the Friends of the Macao Orchestra. More information at: www.icm.gov.mo/om.

07.04.2009

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With Maestro Masahiro Izaki

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Szolnok Symphony Orchestra with Masahiro Izaki, conductor

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With Pal Sziraki

21.03.2009

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At St Louis Symphony Hall

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With Charles Hudson who brought me to Arnold

Impressions

Author: admin
26.01.2009

TCHAIKOVSKY PIANO CONCERTO N° 1

My favourite piano concerto? Impossible to say. But there is one, i think, I was born with Tchaikovsky in b-flat minor . Even after playing it lots of times, even after listening hundreds times in differents versions, this music never loose its sence, its freshness. Each time i listen the beginning, I feel tears coming to my eyes, and my heart beats full of  proudness for being russian and belonging to russian culture.

I never really loved (or probably understood!) Tchaikovsky’s piano music. I admire his symphonies and operas. And only by considering this concerto as a symphony, I can explain its special place in my heart.

I searched  a lot  the spirit of the  third moovement and never was satisfied. But once listening the final of the Fourth Symphony conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov I told - that’s it!!!!!!

The same with the introduction theme. I couldnt find a right way to express the emotion I felt unconsciously. The joy was too evident and the glory was empty. And only when I started to think that actually it is not an introduction, but the quintessence of the concerto, when I started to see this theme with ” background”  of   cadenca ( where all dramatic development reached the climax -the death),  this introduction theme got her right degree.

It became a hymne to Live. Not a human live. But Live as power of the Nature, as a “perpetum mobile”, as a unique and eternal process.

AFTER MY RECITAL IN VINCENNES (FRANCE)

People ask me often : how I start to learn piece, when I think it is ready to be played on the stage , why I play a lot the certain music in certain period and after I don’t play it at all?…

I answer: music is alive, and each interpretation has her own story, and I have different ”relationship” with different music.

I open the score and start to read it. I already have a general idea; I listen it inside of my mind, but for fingers it is a new piece and they don’t know their way.

After comes a moment of research. It’s a work for both- intellect and intuition. What I search?  The right ”words”, my own poeme, the story which I will tell after to the public.

The stage - is a real life for the interpretation, it brings new ideas, it let me discover new features. On stage I fall in love or get a conflict with my music. Here public is very important, as a part of the performance with whom I create each time a special world, a space where my music exist.

And there are some concerts  when I feel such a unity with a music,that I don’t know if it is me who  plays  or  she exists by her own.

It is a magic moment but I know that it is a time to let this music for a while , to return to her  later - but it will be already another story…..

IN SANTIAGO (CHILE)

Now I am in Chile. It’s a nice feeling to return to place where you already played. Ok, it’s’responsability also but it’s so nice atmosphere when you know the hall, know the conducter and I hope we will make nice music.
And lots of members of the orchestra are young Russian musicians.
Sometimes happens that you could be disapointed when you return somewhere you already performed but sure it’s not the case, here in Santiago.

CD reviews

Author: admin
05.08.2008

Classic FM Magazine November 2008

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Le Monde de la Musique Septembre 2008

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Grammophone September 2008

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Rondo Klassik · CD · Rezensionen (19 - 01  07)

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Klassik ist nicht zwangsläufig eine Sache von alten Männern mit Hornbrillen und eingewachsenen Zehnägeln – danke, liebe Majors, das haben wir nach Jahren der am Popbusiness orientierten Promotionkampagnen verstanden. Wir, die wir immer noch, unverbesserlich mit zusammengebissenen Zähnen, in die CDs der neuen Schönen hineinlauschen, ob auch die musikalische Darbietung in allen Punkten eine gelungene ist. Ab und zu, gewissermaßen zur Entspannung, gönnen wir uns einen Blick auf die Fotos im Beiheft. Ja, die junge Russin Valentina Igoshina ist eine sehr schöne Frau. Das Bild, das sie auf einem schwarzen Diwan liegend zeigt, hätten wir gern auch als Poster, wir könnten so ihre alabasterweißen, wohlgeformten Brüste besser erkennen. Dann geht’s wieder an die trockene, entbehrungsreiche Arbeit des Zuhörens: Und siehe da, Frau Igoshina ist auch eine sehr begabte Pianistin; ihre noch jungen Hände kommen gut zurecht mit den immensen technischen Anforderungen, die Schumanns Zyklus “Carneval” an sie stellt: Ihr Spiel ist markant, brillant, sehr klar und oft angenehm widerborstig; sie versteht schon einiges von der Kunst des Rubato, hat schon eine gewisse Vorstellung von der verhangenen poetischen Melancholie Schumanns. Aber der Vergleich mit Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (ohne Brüste, zum Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme im Jahre 1957 auch nicht mehr ganz so jung) zeigt, dass eben doch noch einiges – um nicht zu sagen: Wesentliches – fehlt: Die Konsequenz, mit der Michelangeli im dichten Satz des “Préambule” auch die Mittelstimmen gestaltet und zur atemberaubenden Weitung des Klangs einsetzt, vermisst man. Die ein wenig unheimliche Stimmung des rauschhaften Vorüberjagens im neunten Satz (”Papillons”), die dem Hörer bei Michelangeli Schauer über den Rücken jagt, erreicht Frau Igoshina nicht annähernd. Und an vielen Stellen des Zyklus fehlt ihr noch die Fähigkeit zur fesselnden Umsetzung der ganz sensiblen, zerbrechlichen Lyrizismen, die Michelangeli dem Hörer direkt in die Seele spielt. Dennoch ist Valentina Igoshina eine vielversprechende junge Nachwuchspianistin mit einem großartigen Kapital, das momentan nur noch nicht das Höchstmaß an Zinsen abwirft. Wir hoffen, dass sie das, was sie den Hörern daher derzeit musikalisch noch schuldig bleiben muss, nicht anderweitig auszugleichen sich angewöhnt. Ihrer Schallplattenfirma würde sie dadurch sicher schnell viel Geld einbringen – aber ihren eigenen Weg würde sie möglicherweise verfehlen.

Michael Wersin,


Diapason Novembre 2006

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Classica-Répertoire Décembre 2006

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Le Monde de la Musique Décembre 2006

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Pianiste Septembre 2006

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Pianiste Novembre-Décembre 2006

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Die Welt, 18 November 2006

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24.06.2008

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