Art isn’t a pretty accessory - it’s the umbilical cord that connects us with the divine. It insures our humanity. Impossibilities are the most beautiful possibilities.
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT (1929 - 2016)
Piano Recital at RABASF
On March 4th 2025 Juan Carlos performs a piano recital at Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, with works by Bach, Haydn, Albéniz, Castillo & Falla.
The Netherlands Piano Tour 2022
During May 2022 Juan Carlos visits The Netherlands to offer a piano recitals including master works by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven & Schumann.
Klimt-Villa Chamber Music Festival in Vienna
Juan Carlos joins Aron Quartett for playing Shostakovich Piano Quintet. Gustav Klimt’s works have become part of an international round of motifs. His studio, from 1911 until his death in 1918, was in what is now known as the Klimt Villa in Vienna where there is a permanent exhibition.
Haydn and Brahms in Berlin
A new piano recital at Piano Salon Christophori in Berlin where the pianist performs sonatas by Haydn and Brahms’ Variations on a theme by Händel. Written in a single stretch in September 1861, the work is dedicated to a "beloved friend", Clara Schumann, widow of Robert Schumann.
Catalunya Música
Juan Carlos presents a new album CD released by Naxos and dedicated to Muzio Clementi at “Assaig General” - Catalunya Música, the radio magazine about classical music actuality. The pianist is interviewed by Albert Torrens and talks about this new recording.
Berlin and Dresden Recitals
Juan Carlos has performed successfully Bach, Haydn, De Falla & Schumann at Piano Salon Christophori in Berlin, offering a piano recital in a unique atmosphere, a place where the musical culture comes into direct contact with the audience. During his visit to Dresden, the pianist offered to the audience the same piano recital at Festsaal im Coselpalais, where the audience warmly welcomed his performance. The Coselpalais an der Frauenkirche was built in 1762 by Julius Heinrich Schwarze. This magnificent building in Rococo style provides a fantastic setting for concerts and culture events. Robert & Clara Schumann played there.
Clementi · Keyboard Sonatas and Fantasia
Muzio Clementi’s legacy to pianists is recognised as highly significant for his introduction of a new virtuosity and exploration of the possibilities of the then recently invented fortepiano. His three Sonatas, Op. 23 were published in London in 1790, their style reflecting Haydn’s tremendous popularity in the city at that time. The later Sonata, Op. 34 offers more dramatic contrast, sparkling with chains of thirds, hand- crossing and much use of octaves, comparable resources also being explored in the Fantasia con variazioni on the familiar song ‘Au clair de la lune’.
The Netherlands Piano Tour
1, 6, 12
MAY
2022
Spanish pianist Juan Carlos Rodríguez performs beautiful works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Haydn in these piano recitals.
Klimt Villa International Chamber Music Festival
28
AUG
2019
Shostakovich Piano Quintet op. 57 with Aron Quartett. Vienna, Austria.
Piano Recital. Works by Haydn and Brahms
03
AUG
2019
Auditori Pau Casals. El Vendrell, Spain.
Piano Recital. Works by Haydn and Brahms
10
JUL
2019
Piano Salon Christophori. Berlin, Germany.
Piano Recital. Works by Haydn and Brahms
14
JUN
2019
Piano Lab - Hinves Pianos. Madrid, Spain.
QUOTES
RITMO MAGAZINE · Diligence and Neatness
The legacy of Clementi relies on great interpreters to bring it closer and expose its importance in the evolution of piano technique and composition. Therefore, this new recording should be welcomed, especially when presented with the diligence and neatness that Juan Carlos Rodríguez offers us in his second recording for Naxos. He emerges as a convincing advocate who forgets technical complacencies to focus on the elements that characterize these works. The pianist from Cadiz handles the expressive capabilities of the modern piano effortlessly, with exquisite attention to the bass, while enhancing contrasts and nuances that add solidity and a carefully crafted luminosity to the sound.
GAPPLEGATE CLASSICAL-MODERN MUSIC REVIEW · Very Interpretive, Very Appropriate, Very Spirited
Maestro Rodríguez does a wonderful service with his beautifully idiomatic renditions.
PIZZICATO MAGAZINE · Solid Technique
Between the early pieces, still reminiscent of Chopin, and the more personal later works, Rodríguez faithfully portrays the composer's journey. Rodríguez plays with solid technique, and the sound engineers have also done a good job, significantly enhancing this niche repertoire.
MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL · Superb Piano Sound
Rodríguez's playing is exemplary. It is beautifully crafted, sensitively shaped and clearly shows a great empathy for the composer's style.