Terribly sad to read of the death of Lars Vogt, a few days short of his 52nd birthday. Cancer has robbed the world of a great musician.
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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OMG! Very sad news.Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View PostTerribly sad to read of the death of Lars Vogt, a few days short of his 52nd birthday. Cancer has robbed the world of a great musician.
RIP.
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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One of the few "Big Names" I ever heard performing live - in the Châtelet, Paris, when I was passing through on holiday. I wrote up the experience (just looking for it) which was a memorable highlight when I happened to be in the right place at the right time. Hugely sad news
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Very sad - saw him at Aldeburgh once and also once in London - a serious musician .Comment
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Never heard him live but streamed a few recordings. Terrible LossComment
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RIP.
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Not a very perceptive review of a recital I afterwards described as "splendid" but ... Vogt would have been in his mid 30s:Originally posted by french frank View PostOne of the few "Big Names" I ever heard performing live - in the Châtelet, Paris, when I was passing through on holiday. I wrote up the experience (just looking for it) which was a memorable highlight when I happened to be in the right place at the right time. Hugely sad news
"Sunday 23 April, 2006:
I got an aisle seat 3 rows back in the left-hand side section – a good view of the pianist. The most striking thing was being there, witnessing the phrasing, the variations of touch, as well as hearing them. He is a good performer of Mozart and seemed to enjoy it (Sonatas K 330 & 332). The Beethoven, unlike the string quartets, I still couldn’t unravel though I could see all the emotion going into it. He seemed exhausted at the end, and rightly so. He is both poetic and virtuosic but not flamboyant, distracting. Outside, walking down to St Michel, I felt overwhelmed, moreso than when I was listening."It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Very sad newsDel boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”Comment
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Sad to hear about this. I didn’t realise he was German - he seemed to me to have a greater presence in Scandinavia - but I probably just got that wrong. 51 seems very young these days to pass away, but people still do.Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
Lars Vogt RIP
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Terrible news: he was a wonderful piano player and a really nice bloke. I know that I do have acres of the Grieg/Schumann concertos in my collection, but I had to have his recording with the CBSO with Simon Rattle (EMI CDC 754 748-2) which I shall cherish and play it always.
RIP Lars
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Netherlands Radio 4 has made a February 2022 concert with Lars Vogt available, Brahms PC # 1 with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (wonder now if it might have been his final concert in the Netherlands):
Met him once at a post-concert reception some years back on this side of the pond. Really charming and nice guy, in addition to his musicianship. Gone much, much too soon.
PS: Another NPO archival presentation, with LV featured in Dvorak's Piano Quintet No. 2, from a December 2019 performance with "Janine Jansen & Friends":
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Talking of his collaborations with Rattle he also made an outstanding record of the first two piano concertos with him for EMI with the CBSO. Again seriously musical but a great deal of joy in it too . I always wondered why it was not a complete cycle as the record got rave reviews ( possibly due the Brendel/Rattle/VPO set that followed soon after.Originally posted by bluestateprommer View PostNetherlands Radio 4 has made a February 2022 concert with Lars Vogt available, Brahms PC # 1 with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (wonder now if it might have been his final concert in the Netherlands):
Met him once at a post-concert reception some years back on this side of the pond. Really charming and nice guy, in addition to his musicianship. Gone much, much too soon.
PS: Another NPO archival presentation, with LV featured in Dvorak's Piano Quintet No. 2, from a December 2019 performance with "Janine Jansen & Friends":
https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9...jansen-friendsComment
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The BBC MM November issue cover CD is a tribute to Lars Vogt, pianist, conductor, and director.
Prokofiev Symphony 1 (Royal Northern Sinfonia/Vogt; Sage Gateshead, 17 March 2017)
Beethoven Piano concerto 2 (as above)
Rachmaninov Piano concerto 2 (Vogt/BBCSO/Hruša; Royal Opera House, Oman, 19 November 2012)
Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor (Vogt; Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 10 January 2014)Comment
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I just read a review of that disc that makes no mention of his demiseOriginally posted by bluestateprommer View PostNetherlands Radio 4 has made a February 2022 concert with Lars Vogt available, Brahms PC # 1 with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (wonder now if it might have been his final concert in the Netherlands):
Met him once at a post-concert reception some years back on this side of the pond. Really charming and nice guy, in addition to his musicianship. Gone much, much too soon.
PS: Another NPO archival presentation, with LV featured in Dvorak's Piano Quintet No. 2, from a December 2019 performance with "Janine Jansen & Friends":
https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/9...jansen-friendsComment
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