In the press she’s been called (Gillian) ‘Welch’s lost young daughter’ 
Bluegrass-country-folk songwriter Sarah Jarosz - a Texan teen, born in 1991 - is still very young and a huge talent. Her breakthrough album ‘Song Up In Her Head’, released in the summer of 2009, was now given a five star ‘top of the world’-review in Songlines (September 2010) by reviewer Rose Skelton who uses superlatives like ’supertalent’, ‘fabulous moments’ and ‘exceptional piece of work’. On YouTube I found this track from Sarah Jarosz’s celebrated album, titled Shankill Butchers, a song she covered from The Decemberists. All the other tracks she wrote herself. Great to hear this new young talent.
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Texan teen Sarah Jarosz is a huge talent
Wednesday, September 1st, 201022-5-10: not to be missed recital by world class pianist Valentina Lisitsa in Leiden
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010On Saturday 22 May 2010 electrifying world class classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa is performing in Leiden, The Netherlands. She’s gonna play an exciting and daring programme: two Beethoven Sonatas (the ‘Mondschein’ and the very complicated ‘Hammerklavier’) and all(!) 24 etudes of Chopin. For more information on the location and sale of tickets, click here. On Friday 28 May she will perform the Rachmaninoff / Warenberg 5th Piano Concerto (European premiere) with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Both concerts are really a must for evry lover of classical piano playing.
Valentina Lisitsa during a rehearsal in the Abbey Road Studios, London, December 2009 (photo: Pieter de Rooij)
I consider Valentina Lisitsa a once-in-a-generation pianist and one of the best classical pianists ever. To illustrate my words I’ll present below ten videos of Valentina that show the immense range of her musical powers. Most of these videos are from her Youtubechannel, which is actually the world’s best visited channel of a classical pianist. I also would like to refer to my Youtube video-documentary on Valentina’s Rachmaninoff recording project with the London Symphony Orchestra that can be found on my Youtubechannel, along with other videos I made last year in London of Valentina talking and playing. If you live in Holland and you like classical piano then don’t miss this great opportunity to hear the one and only Valentina Lisitsa live on stage in May 2010 in Leiden and Rotterdam.
1. Rachmaninoff / Etude Tableau Op 39 No. 6 “Little Red Riding Hood“
2. Liszt / Totentanz
3. Rachmaninoff / Piano Concerto No.2 minus orchestra, 2nd movement
4. Rachmaninoff / Piano Concerto No.1, 1st movement, Cadenza (my recording)
5. Chopin / Etude Op 25 No.12
6. Chopin / Etude Op. 25 No. 6
7. Chopin / Etude Op 25 No.7
8. Schubert/Liszt / Schwanengesang #13, Die Taubenpost
10. Robert Schumann / Traumerei
Review: kleurrijk Darbar Festival fotoboek
Monday, March 29th, 2010Een review in Mixed No. 9, zomer 2009 over ‘Darbar Arts Culture Heritage’, een kleurrijk fotoboek over het jaarlijks in Engeland plaatsvindende Darbar Festival, het grootste ragamuziekfestival buiten India.
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Uit het fotoboek een foto van zangeres Kaushiki Chakrabarty tijdens haar optreden op het Darbar Festival 2008.
Indiase muziek: recensies van Pieter de Rooij uit 2009
Monday, March 29th, 2010Mijn recensies uit 2009 in het blad Mixed met betrekking tot Indiase muziek. Besproken worden:
* Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia - An audience with
* Pushparaj Koshti - Surbahar
* Rahul Sharma - Santoor
* Rajan and Sajan Misra - Benares
* Kalapini Komkali - Sacred Breath
* Najma Akhtar & Gary Lucas - Rishte
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Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna in ‘Gharana’ 31-07-09 on Concertzender
Friday, July 31st, 2009
On Friday 31 July 2009, from 21.00 to 22.30 PM (dutch time), Gharana - my Concertzender programme on raga musicians and their performing tradition - features singer T.M. Krishna (b.1976) from Chennai (formerly Madras), one of the young top performers in carnatic -or South Indian- raga music. He’s known for his glowing voice and (more…)
Radio: Gharana, 29 May 2009 / Ravikiran: brilliant slider on the chitravina
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
On Friday 29 May -from 21.00 to 22.30 PM, dutch time- there’ll be a broadcast of a new episode of Gharana, my programme on Indian classical music for Holland’s finest musicstation, the Concertzender. This time the programme focuses on Chitravina N. Ravikiran (b.1967), a celebrated musician in South Indian carnatic music. He has been labeled ‘the Mozart of India’ by critics. He’s a virtuoso on a lute called the chitravina. It’s the world’s oldest fretless slide instrument still being played. Ravikiran was a prodigy and he became famous already at the age of two (more…)
Imdadkhani sitarist Irshad Khan in Gharana 30-1
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
On Friday 30 January 2009 9:00 pm my 90-minute Concertzender radio programme Gharana features renowned sitarist Irshad Khan (1963). He grew up in (more…)