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2022-07-27 05:26:32
Unlike most young artists who annotate their mixed recital CDs with poetic vagaries, the Madrid Symphony Orchestra’s principal violist Wenting Kang tells it like it is, so to speak. She writes that her debut CD “Mosaic” consists of “short, colorful, and individual pieces, which together create a bigger image and idea of ambience.” Happily, Kang’s […]
2021-04-14 15:57:03
The brilliant Spanish-born pianist, Alicia de Larrocha, studied piano with Frank Marshall at his Academia Marshall, and music theory with Riccardo Lamote de Grignon. She made her first public appearance with a solo recital at the age of five, and was soloist with Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid at the age of 11, performing W.A. Mozart’s “Coronation” Concerto (K. 537). Alicia de Larrocha’s adult career began in 1940, but she did not make any international tours until 1947, when she first toured Europe. In 1953, she premiered Montsalvatge’s Concierto breve, which is dedicated to her, and also made her first visit
2020-12-09 00:00:00
The BNF Collection Part 1
[…] van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 Walter Gieseking piano Philharmonia Orchestra Rafael Kubelik Reorded 1952 Alban Berg Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" Igor Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D Ivry Gitlis violin Pro Musica Orchester Wien William Strickland Orchestre Colonne Harold Byms Recorded/Published 1950 Manuel de Falla Noches en los Jardines de España El Amor Brujo Alicia De Larrocha piano Inés Rivadeneyra voice Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid Jesús Arambarri Recorded/Published 1959 Guillaume Lekeu Claude Debussy Violin Sonatas Arthur Grumiaux violin Riccardo Castagnone piano Recorded 1958 Richard Strauss Metamorphosen Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Orchestre et Chœur National de la Radiodiffusion Française Jascha Horenstein Recorded 1953 Anton Webern Complete Works Robert […]
2019-05-20 13:58:41
Wagner, Alicia de Larrocha 2019
May 20, 2019. Wagner, Alicia de Larrocha. Richard Wagner was born on May 22nd of 1813. For some years we’ve been following Wagner’s life thru his operas; two years ago we arrived at 1848, the year Wagner started working on the monumental Der Ring des Nibelungen. It is hard to imagine, but during the years leading up to the Revolution of 1848 Wagner was involved in left-wing politics. He was living in Dresden and active among the local socilaists; he knew Mikhail Bakunin, the famous anarchist, and read Ludwig Feuerbach, a philosopher important in Marxist thought. Wagner participated in the May 1848 uprising and had to flee Germany to avoid arrest. He settled in Zurich, lonely and poor, existing mostly on small funds provided by his friends. While he did finish Lohengrin, very little music was composed in the next several years. What Wagner was writing were articles: some on […]
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