Cristian Sandrin triumphs last night in Berlin with the ‘Goldberg Variations’ dedicated to his father the distinguished pianist and pedagogue Sandu Sandrin who would have been 77 years old this day.A commemoration for him a year on took place in Bucharest on the 5th November (the actual day is the 15th )
Cristian Sandrin Visions of Life dedicated to his father Sandu Sandrin .
Cristian Sandrin plays Goldberg Variations the start of a lifetime journey of discovery from Perivale to Bucharest
A history of the Konzerthaus Berlin.
Designed by the famous Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who oversaw the rebuilding of Berlin after Napoleon’s comprehensive defeat at Leipzig and Waterloo. The concert hall is in restrained and elegant Noclassical style, the perfect setting for the music of the period. It was ceremoniously opened in 1821 with a prologue specially written by Goethe and saw the premiere of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Der Freischütz. Prussia was determined that Berlin would vie with Vienna and Prague as the cultural centre of Europe.
The building was completely destroyed by fire in the last weeks of World War 2 and Berliners were torn with whether to faithfully rebuild Schinkel’s masterpiece or build a modern concert hall. We can only be grateful that they chose the former option that recaptures the moment when the Age of Enlightenment meets the spirit of Romanticism.
Cristian’s rendering of the Goldberg Variations could not have taken place at a more fitting venue. The packed audience was hypnotised by the performance. After Cristian had soaked up the rapturous applause and the shouts of bravo, bravo he said it had been the best moment in all his life.
Photos show the Kleinersalle, the Bechstein concert grand – which had been tuned to perfection – the bells rang and the keys sang. Cristian loved the piano.
Photos of Dr. Rainer Braunschweig with Gerlinde Otto, Professor at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar since 1992 and now emeritus lecturer.
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