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2024-01-22 05:00:00
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56 & Trio, Op. 36 (Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra)
Beethoven, Ludwig van (770-1827) Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano in C major, Op. 56Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 (Version for Piano Trio) Isabelle Faust, ViolinJean-Guihen Queyras, CelloAlexander Melnikov, FortepianoPablo Heras-Casado, Freiburg Barokorchester(Period Instruments)Harmonia Mundi France HMM 902419 (2021)[Flac & Scans]
2024-01-11 13:20:00
Natalia Ponomarchuk (Photo: Yuriy Balan)On 19 January 2024, Ukrainian conductor Natalia Ponomarchuk is at the helm of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Family Ties – The Schumanns and The Mendelssohns, a programme at the Royal Festival Hall that includes Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto and Robert Schumann's Introduction and Concert Allegro, both with pianist Alexander Melnikov along with Felix Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony and Fanny Mendelssohn's Overture in C major.Natalia Ponomarchuk has been chief conductor of the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra since 2018. She escaped Kyiv in March 2022 after the Russian invasion and is now living in London and forging links with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). The LPO Artistic Director Elena Dubinets made contact with her via Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva; Dubinets wanted to help musicians affected by the war. Dubinets has helped her with her paperwork whilst LPO Principal Conductor Ed Gardner put her up in his house.Ponomarchuk returns to the Ukraine every month for around 10 days to conduct […]
2023-11-23 16:26:03
Faust/Schreiber/Tamestit/Queyras/Melnikov(Harmonia Mundi)This pairing of Schumann’s larger-scale chamber works has lightness and clarity, the instruments are beautifully balancedIt’s eight years now since violinist
2022-08-22 09:37:00
Grosser Saal, MozarteumSymphony no.31 in D major, ‘Paris’, KV 297/300a Piano Concerto no.17 in G major, KV 453 Serenade for orchestra no.9 in D major, KV 320, ‘Posthorn’ Alexander Melnikov (piano)Salzburg Mozarteum OrchestraIvor Bolton (conductor)‘Mozart, more intimate [than Beethoven], more touching, between the melancholy of the past and the serene expectation of the future, Mozart, who is neither a child, nor an androgyne nor an angel, but a little of all these, Mozart, always loving, always confident, Mozart smiled, even before death…’ It is difficult to take issue with many, if any, of these claims, save perhaps for the particular comparison with Beethoven, from the fourth volume of Messiaen’s Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d’ornithologie. Messiaen’s insistence that Mozart smiled was repeated in his final commissioned work, Un sourire, written in 1989 for the 1991 bicentenary. If I were to offer a single criticism of the Mozart revealed, or […]
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