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All the conducting master class
2021-11-11 22:07:41
June 18-23, 2022 All-Beethoven Program: Coriolan OvertureSymphonies no. 1 and no. 4 For more information please contact, [email protected]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-05-25 22:54:01
The immortal Romanian’s final recital, weeks before his... The post Slippedisc daily comfort zone (41): Lipatti’s last appeared first on Slipped Disc.
2021-04-02 00:23:00
TheGuardian.com: Julian Lloyd Webber: The rich world of African classical music [African Concert Series, founded by pianist Rebeca Omordia]
Discovering untapped riches … series founder, the Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebeca Omordia. The Guardian Julian Lloyd Webber Wed 31 Mar 2021 While the Wigmore Hall has rightly garnered plaudits for keeping classical music alive during lockdown, another pioneering concert series has also beaten the odds with its series of online live events. The African Concert Series is the brainchild of my former duo partner, the pianist Rebeca Omordia. She has half-Romanian, half-Nigerian heritage. But while we would often discuss world-renowned Romanian classical musicians such as composer Georges Enescu, pianist Dinu Lipatti and conductor Sergiu Celibidache, when it came to Nigerian classical composers, we drew a blank. “There aren’t any,” said Rebeca. I told her there must be, and challenged her to find them. This was back in 2013, and her subsequent research has uncovered more than 200 […]
2021-03-29 13:41:14
Rach-Busoni, 2021
[…] background noise significant, but they are still interesting as historical artefacts. Here is Busoni playing his own transcription of Bach’s organ prelude Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein (Rejoice, Beloved Christians) BWV 734. Busoni also made several piano rolls, but those do not authentically represent the pianist’s art. One of the few champions of Busoni’s original compositions is the wonderful pianist Alfred Brendel. Here he is playing, live, Busoni’s Toccata (Preludio - Fantasia – Ciaccona). Dinu Lipatti, a great Romanian pianist, was also born on April 1st, in 1917. We wrote about him two years ago, here. In that entry there’s also more information about Rachmaninov the pianist. There is also a bit about Vladimir Krainev, a wonderful Soviet pianist, who was born on April 1st of 1944. Here are Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, recorded by Krainev live in 1974. Busoni had many pupils, Egon Petri and Percy Granger among them. Krainev […]
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