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Russian composer, music teacher and conductor (1865-1936)
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There's music in all things: Bath Festival Orchestra marks the Berlioz 220 and Poulenc 125 anniversaries with a début performance at Southbank's Queen Elizabeth Hall
Bath Festival OrchestraPeter Manning, principal conductor/artistic director of Bath Festival Orchestra (BFO), had this to say about their forthcoming concert marking the Berlioz 220 and Poulenc 125 anniversaries. 'Our January programme considers a vast timeline spanning the troubadour influences of Poulenc’s neo-classical works. The three works we shall perform are distinct but each paints a vivid narrative through live music and each is crafted to evoke emotion. Therefore, by incorporating Byron’s influence on Berlioz, the programme will embrace the twin joys of literature and music thereby echoing Byron's words: "There's music in all things".' The concert (Sunday, 14 January 2024, 7.30pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall) opens with Louise Farrenc’s Overture in E minor, Op. 23. An extraordinary pianist, teacher and composer of the Romantic period - three symphonies, a few choral works, numerous chamber pieces and a wide variety of piano music - her ‘magical musical palette’ was much admired by Berlioz […]
2022-08-08 15:37:27
Seven composers
This Week in Classical Music: August 8, 2022. Seven composers. Yes, that many, all interesting, none of them great, at least in our opinion, and three of them French. Cécile Chaminade, one of the few women composers of the 19th century, and André Jolivet were born on August 8th and both in Paris, Chaminade in 1857, Jolivet in 1905. Reynaldo Hahn, a songwriter and Proust’s friend,was born on August 9th of 1874 in Caracas but spent his adult life in France. You can read about all three here. The Russian composer Alexander Glazunov was born on August 10th of 1865. He wrote a wonderful Violin concerto and a very popular ballet, Raymonda. He also wrote eight complete symphonies (he never finished his ninth), two piano concertos and much more. Outside of Russia very little of this music is performed or broadcast. But Glazonov was very important as a public […]
2022-08-08 15:32:27
Seven composers
This Week in Classical Music: August 8, 2022. Seven composers. Yes, that many, all interesting, none of them great, at least in our opinion, and three of them French. Cécile Chaminade, one of the few women composers of the 19th century, and André Jolivet were born on August 8th and both in Paris, Chaminade in 1857, Jolivet in 1905. Reynaldo Hahn, a songwriter and Proust’s friend,was born on August 9th of 1874 in Caracas but spent his adult life in France. You can read about all three here. The Russian composer Alexander Glazunov was born on August 10th of 1865. He wrote a wonderful Violin concerto and a very popular ballet, Raymonda. He also wrote eight complete symphonies (he never finished his ninth), two piano concertos and much more. Outside of Russia very little of this music is performed or broadcast. But Glazonov was very important as a public […]
2022-07-26 21:00:20
Alexander Glazunov composed the Violin Concerto in A minor Opus 82 in 1904–5 when he was at the height of his fame in Russia. It was premiered on 15 February 1905 in St Petersburg at a concert of the Russian Music Society, conducted by the composer, with the great violinist Leopold Auer (to whom it is dedicated) as the soloist. It was Auer’s fourteen-year-old pupil Mischa Elman who gave the first performances outside Russia in the same year, helping to build the work’s international reputation. Hans Keller claimed that Glazunov’s treatment of the solo violin’s character made the work ‘something
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