The first two were written in 1796, when Beethoven was producing his breakthrough early piano sonatas.
In the third Boulez 2000 concert, at the Felsenreitschule the next day, Mr. Aimard made Berg's harmonically wayward Sonata (Op. 1) seem positively Brahmsian, gave a gripping account of Schoenberg's breakthrough Five Piano Pieces (Op. 23) and, with the excellent flutist Sophie Cherrier, offered a continually imaginative performance of Mr. Boulez's early Flute Sonata.
It wasn't until her third and breakthrough feature, "The Piano," that she embraced the concept that actors sometimes have ideas better than her own.
Released July 15 on vinyl LP and CD formats, Symphonic Arrangement: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio is a breakthrough recording and a dream fulfilled.
Even if he describes Peggy's breakthrough as "like watching a dog playing the piano".
VANESSA CARLTON -- This wildly popular (and, somehow, underrated) piano balladeer -- best known for her breakthrough smash, "A Thousand Miles" -- returns with a spooky, dazzling new song, "White Houses," accompanied by an even spookier music video.
His breakthrough came when he was asked to fill in on piano for a tardy Thelonious Monk, who was appearing with the saxophonist Coleman Hawkins's group.
This June, the orchestra, under the direction of the German-born conductor Christoph Eschenbach, returned to China to commemorate the breakthrough, and Lang Lang signed on to be the soloist for the Grieg Piano Concerto and "The Yellow River Piano Concerto," a staple performance piece of the Cultural Revolution.
In "Kraft," his breakthrough work from 1985, he augmented a large modern orchestra with amplified clarinet, cello, piano and percussion soloists, vocal chatter, junkyard drums and players dispersed among the audience.
Her breakthrough came before she turned 20, with her London debut in 1987, playing Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the London Philharmonic.
