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2022-07-09 05:22:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 9, 2022
[…] invited to take part in an intensive two weeks of music-making, following the tradition that Pablo Casals created all those years ago at the foot of the Matterhorn. These exceptional students receive tuition and support from the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin with whom they form the Zermatt Festival Orchestra.This year, the Zermatt Festival Orchestra presents the following soloists : Fabio Biondi, Christian Gerhaher, Guillaume Jehl and Alexandre Bader conducted by Fabio Biondi, Stanley Dodds and Christian Poltéra.The master class at the Matterhorn Museum on 12 September, which will be open to the public, and the concerts given by the members of the academy are always highlights of the festival. At three chamber music concerts (13, 14, and 15 September), the students at the Zermatt Festival Academy will present the results of their week of hard work under the tutelage of the members of the Scharoun Ensemble.The programmes they have chosen to […]
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Faces of classical music
2021-08-25 02:40:00
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, & Piano Quintet in E flat major | Johann Sebastian Bach: Five Fugues from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Vol. 2, arrangement for string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Isabelle Faust, Anne-Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyra, Alexander Melnikov (HD 1080p)
[…] Riccardo Muti, Daniel Harding, Marek Janowski, Antonio Pappano, François-Xavier Roth, Emmanuel Krivine and Franz Welser-Möst. In the 2020-2021 season Antoine Tamestit has been invited to perform with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre de Paris. He founded the Trio Zimmermann with Frank Peter Zimmermann and Christian Poltéra. Other chamber music partners include Nicholas Angelich, Gautier Capuçon, Martin Fröst, Leonidas Kavakos, Nikolai Lugansky, Emmanuel Pahud, Francesco Piemontesi, Christian Tetzlaff, Cédric Tiberghien, Yuja Wang, Jörg Widmann, Shai Wosner as well as the Quatuor Ébène and the Hagen Quartet. Antoine Tamestit records for harmonia mundi and recently released a CD of works by Brahms with Cédric Tiberghien. Other notable recordings include Jörg Widmann's Viola Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel […]
2020-06-10 23:00:00
DG and Decca concerts part 1
Robert SchumannGenoveva: OverturePiano ConcertoSymphony No. 4Martha Argerich piano Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Riccardo Chailly C.P.E. Bach Concerto for Two Harpsichords Wq 46 Symphonies Wq183 I and IV F. J. HaydnSymphony 104 Tini Mathot harpsichord Deutsches SO Berlin Ton Koopman harpsichord and direction Hector BerliozLe Carnaval Romain La Mort de Cleopatre Claude DebussyLe Martyre de San Sebastien La MerBeatrice Uria-Monzon mezzoprano Orchestre Phlharmonique de Radio France Myung-Whun Chung Johannes Brahms Tragic Overture Academic Overture Haydn Variations Symphony No. 3 Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Herbert Blomstedt Edward Elgar Alassio (In the South) Enigma Variations Symphony No. 1 Philharmonia Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Riccardo ChaillyGustav […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-10-22 11:04:00
Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor – Antoine Tamestit, SWR Symphonieorchester, Teodor Currentzis (HD 1080p)
Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis, an "eccentric super-talented maestro", conducts SWR Symphonieorchester in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (viola plays Antoine Tamestit), and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64. The concert recorded at Liederhalle Stuttgart, on December 14, 2018.✻1985 was a watershed year in Alfred Schnittke's life, in good ways and bad. It was a tremendously prolific year, seeing the composition of some of Schnittke's most famous, personality-defining works – his String Trio, his Third Concerto Grosso, the first two movements of his First Cello Concerto, and his Viola Concerto. However, these works seem to have come at a cost: soon after the completion of the Trio, Schnittke suffered his first serious strokes. This catastrophic turn would have immense effect: just as Schnittke's work was entering a kind of "archetype" stage, it would shift radically. Everything after that fateful year, as Schnittke remarked in 1988, would […]
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