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2018-01-20 09:02:59
Orchestra puts out call for 100 cellists. What to do when 155 turn up?
Tomorrow is the centenary of Antonio Janigro, legendary cellist and revered founder of the Zagreb Soloists. The ensemble put out a call for 100 cellists to play at a celebratory concert, one for each year of the master’s life. But 155 have already registered and more are threatening to turn up. Should be quite some show. […]
2017-08-02 03:05:00
Foreign or local, the menu of symphonic and chamber music has remained enticing in recenty weeks. Let´s start with symphonic. The fourth item of Nuova Harmonia´s season was originally announced as the visit of the Prague Philharmonia, but it was later changed and instead we had the debut of the Istanbul State Symphony, although keeping the programmed conductor (Milan Turkovic), violinist (Vadim Repin) and repertoire. We never had a Turkish orchestra before. This one has a long history: in 1827 the Ottoman Sultan Mahmut II invited Giuseppe Donizetti (brother of Gaetano) to found the Muzika-i-Humayun, Ottoman Imperial Orchestra. Much later, during WWI, the orchestra did a tour of such cities as Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Budapest and Sofia. By 1945, at the end of […]
2016-10-01 06:48:00
Misha Maisky is a special personality among the great cellists of our time. Born in Latvia and now in his middle sixties, he is the only one that had instruction both from Gregor Piatigorsky and Mstislav Rostropovich, leading figures of yore. Great friend of Martha Argerich, he has given many concerts and made a recording of the complete Beethoven cello-piano sonatas with her. He has made 35 CDs, including three times the Bach cello suites. He visited us a long time ago, and now he returned at the height of his fame. Not for a recital but with a chamber orchestra, the Tel Aviv Soloists under their founder Barak Tal. It was a presentation of Nuova Harmonia at the Colón. The […]
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