Nelson Freire

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Nelson Freire (born October 18, 1944 in Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais state , Brazil ) is a Brazilian pianist .

Life

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Freire caused a sensation as a child and in 1957 came 7th in the piano competition in Rio de Janeiro . He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s, but then withdrew from concert life. After a long break from recording activities, recordings of his interpretations of works by Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann and the two piano concertos by Johannes Brahms with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under the direction of Riccardo Chailly have been published in recent years . His publication of Beethoven - Sonatas but not met with one of the criticisms of the enthusiasm as the pictures above, while pianist colleagues like Philippe Cassard count (* 1962) the most important festivals of the history of interpretation.

Nelson Freire sometimes performs as a piano duo with Martha Argerich . In 2003 they had a concert tour through Japan, in 2004 through Brazil and Argentina and in 2005 through the United States. In 2006 and 2007 Nelson Freire a. a. with the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig, at the BBC Proms , and again with Martha Agrich in Toulouse and at the Ruhr Piano Festival . In 2009 their joint album "Salzburg" was released, a live recording from the Salzburg Festival. In July 2019 he played the Piano Concerto No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven together with the Orchester Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo under the direction of its conductor Kazuki Yamada as part of the summer concerts in the Palace of Monaco .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire - Salzburg , accessed on June 21, 2020
  2. ↑ Alexa Bouhelier-Ruelle: Ehrenhof concerts in Monaco celebrate their 60th birthday , accessed on June 21, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Freire, Nelson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Minas Gerais , Brazil