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Serenade (Western Classical Music in India)
2023-06-19 19:25:52
In 1880, immediately following the completion of his First Piano Quartet, Gabriel Fauré began work on a sonata for cello and piano. Often, when composing a new chamber work, Fauré began with the slow movement. Ultimately, the sonata failed to materialize, but the intended slow movement was published as a stand-alone piece—the solemn and lamenting Élégie, Op. 24. As with the First Piano Quartet, the Élégie is set in C minor. Its mournful initial melody rises over a funereal ostinato […]
2019-11-11 10:09:29
Gems and discoveries: Piano Quartets from the Rossetti Ensemble at Conway Hall
The Rossetti Ensemble (Photo Robert Piwko) Mozart, Debussy, Bridge, Mahler, Schumann; Rossetti Ensemble; Conway Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 10 November 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Gems from the piano quartet repertoire in warmly passionate performancesLast night, 10 November 2019, the Rossetti Ensemble (Sara Trickey violin, Sarah-Jane Bradley viola, Tim Lowe cello, John Lenehan piano) gave a programme of piano quartets at the Conway Hall, as part of Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, and beforehand I gave a pre-concert talk, The Cinderella Effect: a History of the Piano Quartet looking at the development of the piano quartet from Mozart and Beethoven, through Dussek and Marschner, to Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak and Fauré. The Rossett Ensemble played Mozart's Piano Quartet no. 2 in E flat, John Lenehan's arrangement of the prelude to Debussy's La demoiselle elue, Frank Bridge's Phantasy for Piano Quartet in F sharp minor, Gustav […]
2019-03-24 17:00:31
[…] wistfully recalls. Recommended recording:BBC Philharmonic/TortelierChandos CHAN 9416 The mystery of Mozart's Requiem Mélodies Fauré was arguably France’s greatest songwriter at the turn of the 20th century, evident in the luscious beauty of ‘Les roses d’Ispahan’ or the joy and apprehension in the cycle La Bonne Chanson. Recommended recording:Elly Ameling, Gérard Souzay; Dalton Baldwin (piano)Brilliant 92792 The greatest piano concertos of all time Piano Quartet No. 1 The First Piano Quartet is one of his most readily accessible works, charming and gently melancholic music off-set by a sparkling scherzo. Recommended recording:DomusHyperion CDA 66166 The best recordings of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
2015-11-30 16:48:58
It always starts with a sound. It captures my ears and my attention. Music. Something I haven’t heard before. It turns my head and gets my full undivided attention. If it holds my attention, I am hooked. I want to hear more, want to hear it again. It might have been a live performance, in which case I am not likely to single-handedly get them to repeat the music. It might have been on the radio, in which case I scramble to listen to the announcer tell me what piece it was so I can find it again. If I was lucky enough to be listening to a recording, then I can repeat it right away. But it always starts with a sound. The music gets under my skin. My left brain starts to kick in and I want to know everything about the music. Who wrote it? Who played […]
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