“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)

LATEST NEWS

The Netherlands Piano Tour 2022

During May 2022 Juan Carlos visits The Netherlands to offer a piano recital including master works by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven & Schumann.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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’.

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FEATURED CALENDAR

1, 6, 12
MAY
2022

The Netherlands Piano Tour

28
AUG
2019

Klimt Villa International
Chamber Music Festival

Shostakovich Piano Quintet op. 57

with Aron Quartett. Vienna, Austria.

03
AUG
2019

Piano Recital. Works by
J. Haydn and J. Brahms

Auditori Pau Casals. El Vendrell, Spain.

10
JUL
2019

Piano Recital. Works by
J. Haydn & J. Brahms

Piano Salon Christophori. Berlin, Germany.

14
JUN
2019

Piano Recital. Works by
J. Haydn and J. Brahms

Piano Lab - Hinves Pianos. Madrid, Spain.

"Esmero y Pulcritud"

"El legado de Clementi necesita de grandes intérpretes que lo acerquen para exponer su importancia en la evolución de la técnica y creación pianística, por lo que esta nueva grabación debe ser bienvenida, máxime cuando se presenta con el esmero y pulcritud con que nos la ofrece Juan Carlos Rodríguez, en este su segundo registro para Naxos, mostrándose como un defensor convincente que olvida las complacencias tecnicistas para centrarse en los elementos que caracterizan a estas obras. El pianista gaditano resuelve sin forzar las capacidades expresivas del piano moderno, con exquisito cuidado en los bajos, pero incrementando contrastes y matices que añaden solidez y una luminosidad de cuidada sonoridad."


- RITMO MAGAZINE

"Very Interpretive, Very Appropriate, Very Spirited"

"Maestro Rodríguez does a wonderful service with his beautifully idiomatic renditions."


- GAPPLEGATE CLASSICAL-MODERN MUSIC REVIEW

"Solider Technik"

"Zwischen dem noch an Chopin erinnernden frühen Stücken und den persönlicheren späten Werken zeigt Rodríguez stilgetreu den Weg des Komponisten nach. Rodríguez spielt mit solider Technik, und die Toningenieure haben ebenfalls eine gute Arbeit geleistet, was dieses Nischenrepertoire deutlich aufwertet."


- PIZZICATO MAGAZINE

"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."
 

- MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL

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