Alix Fournier News
Last update
2024-03-25
Refresh
2022-08-22 20:14:18
Laval, August 22, 2022 – After two years of silence, “l’Opéra bouffe du Québec (OBQ)” is eager to present “La belle de Cadix”, famous French operetta from Francis Lopez, renowned through time for its unforgettable arias! Staged by Alain Zouvi, with musical director Simon Fournier, the seven soloists, thirty chorus singers and the OBQ orchestra [...]
2021-11-16 23:15:09
Christiane Fournier has been immersed in the world of opera since her early childhood. Her parents were great opera lovers. Since she was a child, Fournier has felt a particular affinity for Carmen. “This opera has long inhabited my childhood imagination and I have always dreamed of performing it,” she says. However, she had to [...]
2021-08-09 13:47:46
composers and Solomon, 2021
[…] career: a child prodigy, he made his public debut at the age of eight, playing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto at the Queen’s Hall. Just a couple years later he stopped performing and disappeared for about 10 years. In 1924 he returned to the stage, his technique intact. He toured across Europe and in the US, played for the troops during WWII and later formed a famed trio with the violinist Zino Francescatti and cellist Pierre Fournier. Solomon brilliantly played a broad repertoire, including Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky. He was a great interpreter of such disparate composers as Beethoven and Chopin. Here is Chopin’s Berceuse, recorded in 1946. Solomon loved to play Brahms’s Intermezzo in C Major Op. 119 No. 3, both during the main program or as an encore. Here’s a recording from 1952. The wonderful Italian pianist Aldo Ciccolini was born on August 15th of 1925. Also this week: […]
2020-06-30 13:46:39
Francis Poulenc: Cello Sonata Context Francis Poulenc began sketching his Cello Sonata in 1940, but the work was considered complete until 1948. The premiere performance happened in Paris in May 1949, with Poulenc playing the piano and Pierre Fournier, to whom the piece is dedicated, playing the cello. Fournier helped […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): F...