Press Review by Brno Music Friendly City The piano recital by the chief conductor of the Filharmonie Brno Dennis Russell Davies and his wife the pianist Maki Namekawa yesterday in Besední dům offered three works by three significant figures from American minimalism. The concert included minimalist works by Steve Reich in the shape of Piano …
See this short report by Ceska televize about the duo concert on the 24th of March in Brno. → to the report
The Track Orphée from Namekawa/Davies’ new iTunes release “Three Pieces for four Hands” is on Apple Musics’ Classical A-List.
Orange Mountain Music released “Three Pieces for Four Hands” today on iTunes. Orphée, Stokes and The Voyage were recorded last year in the Musiktheater Linz for digital release only.
Namekawa / Davies release their new CD “Shostakovich: Symphony No 4” today (February, 8th). The CD is released on Supertrain Records. ⟶ SEE DETAILS
Philip Glass is writing his first piano sonata ever for Maki Namekawa who is going to premier the piece at Klavier-Festival Ruhr on July, 4th in Essen, Germany. The work is commissioned by Klavier-Festival Ruhr. → GO TO EVENT
This short documentary was shot during the recording of MISHIMA in June 2017. Philip Glass and Michael Riesman comment on the soundtrack to the Paul Schrader movie.
Today Maki received the renowned classical music award “Pasticcio Preis” for MISHIMA | Maki Namekawa plays Philip Glass by Austrian national radio Ö1. Congratulations!
In October, 2018 SUNRISE FALLLING was released on Pentatone/Oxingale to celebrate the 100th anniversary Korean-born composer Isang Yun – featuring Maki Namekawa, Yumi Hwang-Williams, Matt Haimovitz and Dennis Russell Davies. In this interview Dennis Russell Davies speaks about the project.
Schon zur Zeit Mozarts war es Usus, große Symphonien für kleinere Besetzungen zu bearbeiten. So auch für Klavier, wobei mehr Spielraum zwei Klaviere erlauben, die Maki Namekawa und Dennis Russell Davies bei ihrem Recital anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags von Leonard Bernstein am Sonntag im Großen Saal der Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität gehörig zum Klingen brachten. Bernstein …
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