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Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music.
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2024-01-26 02:31:44
A professor at the Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, Italian pianist Martina Frezzotti studied with Lazar Berman, and later with Elisso Virsaladze at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow, where she earned her doctorate. She follows up her marvelous Piano Classics solo debut CD devoted to Fanny Mendelssohn’s music with a well-curated Amy Beach program that represents […]
2023-11-14 10:11:00
Celebrating Franz Schmidt: Jonathan Berman's recordings of the symphonies reach completion for the composer's 150th anniversary
Franz SchmidtThe Austrian composer Franz Schmidt was born 150 years ago next year and in anticipation of the event, Jonathan Berman's Franz Schmidt project reaches completion with the boxed set of all four of Schmidt's symphonies being released digitally on Accentus on 17 November 2023 with Berman conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (the physical release is 1 December).But it isn't just about the symphonies, Berman has been researching Schmidt for some years and his Franz Schmidt Project website presents the fruits of this research along with interviews with Fabio Luisi, Wayne Marshall, Simone Young and Franz Welser-Möst about Schmidt's music. The website also has an upcoming performances page, though you will have to travel if you want to hear one of Schmidt's symphonies, no UK performance are listed.Schmidt remains something of an unsung hero, his relatively conservative music is strongly in the Austro-Hungarian tradition. Born in what is now […]
2022-07-11 10:07:41
The young Italian-Serbian-French violinist Luka Faulisi has signed with both IMG Artists and Sony Classical, with both appointments being announced in tandem. Currently just 20 years old, Faulisi began learning the violin aged three and initially studied with Boris Belkin at the Conservatorium Maastricht in the Netherlands. He is now learning from Pavel Berman at […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-02-21 14:50:04
Handel, 2022
[…] Russian-born but none spent their life in Russia: Benno Moiseiwitsch, a British pianist, was born in Odessa, then in the Russian Empire into a Jewish family, on February 22nd of 1890; then three day later is the anniversary of another Brit, this time a “real” one but also Jewish, Dame Myra Hess. Nikita Magaloff, of Russian-Georgian descent who spent much of his life in Switzerland, was born in Saint-Petersburg on February 21st of 1912. Lazar Berman, another Russian (also Jewish), was born on the 26th the month in 1930 in Leningrad (now St.-Petersburg) and, finally, yet another Russian-born pianist, Arcadi Volodos (no, this one is not Jewish) was born on February 24th of 1972, also in Leningrad; these days Volodos lives in Spain. None of these pianists were very interested in the music of Handel, the only example we could find of one of them playing his music is an […]
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