Watch: Page turner saves sonata from sudden death
mainThings got a bit out of hand at the Sendesaal Bremen, where Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt had their pages fly off the stands. Not one of them. Both. Twice in a minute.
The saviour of the night was page-turner Anna Reszniak, normally concertmaster of the Nuremburg Symphony, who kept a cool head when two maestros were losing theirs. Just watch.
Anna richly deserved her curtain call.
Marvelous work Anna!
Wonderful – first time I’ve even seen the page turner taking applause.
Thanks for posting
lol @ the article title but unbelievable playing (x2) and unbelievable recovery (x2).
It was my everyday life at 16 – 18 years, when I spend my summer holidays at Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux, near Paris, founded by my wonderful teacher Alfred Loewenguth. I remember some burlesk episodes with some pages IN the piano…
Nice save. But I wouldn’t think that seasoned musicians such as these should even need a score for this repertoire.
that’s true, renowned musicians as these two gentleman dont “use” a score….happy Anna was near…
Evidently, dave t, you would be wrong. Musicians of any renown do, more often than not, use scores when performing chamber music.
Tetzlaff is quite the showman – he must have relished the moment…..
Last season in Berlin Tetzlaff broke a string in the middle of the Szymanowski first concerto and, without missing a note, exchanged instruments with the concertmaster in such a spectacular manner, that it could have been rehearsed.
Excellent work & a thoroughly well deserved curtain call indeed.