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Diplodemocracia (Free subscription) | 11/01/2010
By the time she released her next CD, Bach and Beyond, in 2006, an exclusively improvisational album for EMI Classic, there was no doubt in my mind that here was a talent so unique it would have to be noticed sooner or later, and in a big way. And so it happened. Today, only four years later, this ravishing young woman is a pianistic superstar ( full information )/ En el momento en que lanzó...
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Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 09/01/2010
Interview with world renowned pianist and classical music improvisation superstar Gabriela Montero.
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The Arts Blog (Free subscription) | 04/02/2010
... (Dudamel has a Jones for Bernstein) and Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” with fellow Venezuelan Gabriela Montero in the driver’s seat. He returns on Aug. 5 to lead a program of “Songs of the People” (Socialist!) by Enesco, Piazzolla, Falla, Bernstein (see? I mean that thing about having a Jones) and Ravel. This is not really a “song” program, by the way, despite the title. The Bernstein...
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Slipped disc (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
... Lang builds its global reach. The pity of it was the his presence at Davos rather eclipsed that of Gabriela Montero, the Venezuelan wonder whose improvisatory pianism presented a real lesson for world leaders on how to play their way out of recession. So what's driving Lang Lang? Setting aside 21st century greed-is-good theology, people who know him well tell me he wants to be taken...
