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Belgian violinist and pianist (1921-1986)
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- pianist, music teacher, university teacher
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2024-03-12 18:03:04
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2023-10-29 18:04:00
BPO/Minasi - Mozart, 27 October 2023
[…] Café Glockenspiel, eating a late, post-performance dinner as musicians played below. Similarly, in the minuet finale, I could almost see the ballroom and be dazzled by it, as if Vienna’s Redoutensaal were both already beckoning Mozart and yet also remained some way distant, this the work of his Salzburg imagination and prhaps occasional visit rather than everyday acquaintance. Here, as elsewhere, the two violinists complemented each other, blending well without losing individual character, Bendix-Bagley almost Grumiaux-like (an ideal for me in Mozart), Timm a little more silver of tone. Mayer, needless to say, was his usual excellent self. The whole orchestra excelled, which is just as it should be. Last, we heard the ‘great’ G minor Symphony, its first movement neither forsaking emotion for elegance, nor vice versa; they were two sides to the same coin, showing Schumann’s oft-quoted (and derided) imputation of ‘Grecian lightness and grace’ not so far […]
2022-03-20 12:53:56
Sibelius’ incidental music for “Belshazzar’s Feast” includes a Nocturne with a violin theme reminiscent of the concerto and Third Symphony (two works written the same year). Once a popular encore and recital work for violinists like Arthur Grumiaux and David Oistrakh, it’s relatively unknown now… and undeservingly so. Here is David Oistrakh to play this music for you:
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