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2019-11-08 01:10:00
Four Seasons Arts Presents Duo MemDi in Oakland, CA Nov. 9, 2019, 7:30 PM
Duo MemDi The 2019-2020 Four Seasons Arts series presents Duo MemDi with pianist Rochelle Sennet and violinist Igor Kalnin on November 9, 2019 at 7:30 PM at the Regents’ Theater located at the Valley Center for Performing Arts at Holy Names University, 3500 Mountain Blvd. in Oakland. Free parking is available. See the Four Seasons Arts web site for tickets: www.fsarts.org - or call 510-845-4444. Duo MemDi believes that classical music should serve as a tool in promoting social justice. The program is: Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42 (Memory of a dear place); James Lee III: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (2018); Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2; Paganini/arr. Kreisler: La Campanella. Duo MemDi was founded by violinist Igor Kalnin and pianist Rochelle Sennet in the summer of 2010, […]
2018-12-10 07:33:25
Intimate delight, 18th century chamber cantatas from Tim Mead, Louise Alder & Arcangelo
[…] continued with Porpora after the interval with Louise Alder singing Il Ritiro, and this time we had two violins and a viola and throughout the cantata, whether in ritornellos, accompagnato or arias, it was Porpora's lovely warm writing for the three upper string instruments, creating warm textures from the three intertwining lines, that created a strong impression. Though Louise Alder was a delightful protagonist, making this hymn to pastoral life remarkably dramatic and very expressive.Porpora's Sinfonia da Camera in G minor, Op.2 no. 3 was effectively a trio sonata under another name. The string writing for the two violins, evoked a similar sound world to the previous cantata, with a plangently expressive slow movement leading to a perkily busy faster on with Porpora using some striking moments when the two violins were left without accompaniment. The second slow movement was all gorgeous suspensions, followed by a lively yet graceful dance.Handel's […]
2015-06-16 12:49:45
STRAUSS The Virtuoso Johann Strauss: Paraphrases and Arrangements of Favourite Strauss Melodies by Rosenthal, Tausky, Godowsky and Schulz-Evler LABE (piano) (Dorian Discovery DIS 80102) TT: 73.31 (DDD) Full price * * (*) Godowsky was the one who used to play two Chopin études simultaneously, just to make them sound harder. A difficult feat; and one would have hoped it was impossible. The transcriptions here share the same tigerish bravura, and if you recall the old cartoon of Liszt, in a monsoon of fingers stripping the keys off a piano, you might be able to appreciate the wars of calculated attrition that virtuosi used to embark on with their fists. This is what the pianism of a lost age was all about. When Moriz Rosenthal quipped that Schnabel failed his Austrian Army medical because he had no fingers, he referred not to the fumblings of later years but to the young […]
2013-08-07 09:22:00
Rubbra is kind of a big deal
Last night's BBC Proms performance of Edmund Rubbra's Ode to the Queen was the first time his music has been heard at a Prom for twelve years. Which is a good reason to be thankful. But, and yes I know some people are never satisfied, why was that particular work - which is one of his least typical and least memorable - chosen? Presumably because it linked to the sixtieth anniversary of the Queen's Coronation; an event which the opening work, Walton's March 'Orb and Sceptre' was also commissioned for. If that is the case it is a pity; because the nod to relevance meant an opportunity to introduce Proms audiences to a very fine and undeservedly neglected symphonist was missed - see tweets above and below. Either Rubbra's Tenth Symphony Sinfonia da Camera or his Eleventh - a work that compresses his very essence into a single movement - would […]
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