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Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
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Premiere of Eleanor Alberga's piano concerto, commissioned by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for Leeds Piano Competition winner Alim Beisembayev
Alim Beisembayev (Photo: Nabin Maharjan)Kazakhstan-born pianist Alim Beisembayev won First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competition in September 2021, along with the medici.tv Audience Prize and a new prize, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Prize for contemporary performance. This led the orchestra to commission a new work especially for Beisembayev, from the eminent Jamaican-born British composer, Eleanor Alberga, who will also be a Jury member of the 2024 Competition later this year.Alberga's Piano Concerto will be premiered by Alim Beisembayev with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Domingo Hindoyan on 25 April 2024 at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool as part of a concert that includes a suite from Roussel's Bacchus and Ariadne and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.Alberga's concerto, her first piano concerto, has grown from solo works for piano and thematically draws on her life story. I chatted to Eleanor Alberga back in 2022 about her music and her Jamaican […]
2024-03-08 00:00:00
Paavo Jarvi conducts
Carl Nielsen - Symphonies:1.01 - 1.04 Symphony No.1 in G minor, op.7 [33:58]1.05 - 1.08 Symphony No.2, op.16 'The Four Temperaments' [33:39]2.01 - 2.04 Symphony No.3, op.27 'Sinfonia espansiva' * [37'19]2.05 - 2.08 Symphony No.4, op.29 'The Inextinguishable' [35'00]3.01 - 3.04 Symphony No.5, op.50 [37'07]3.05 - 3.08 Symphony No.6 'Sinfonia Semplice' [33'18]Camilla Tilling- soprano, Michael Nagy- baritone *, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo JärviRCA 8875 17880-2 [recorded December 2009 to April 2013; issued 2015][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Grosser Saal, Alte Oper, Frankfurt and Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal, Kurhaus, Wiesbaden (Symphony No.1), GermanyRecording engineers: Christoph Classen, Rüdiger Orth, Udo Wüstendörfer, Wolfgang PackeiserJohannes Brahms - Symphonies:Disc 101 - 04 Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.68 [46'04]05 Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op.56a 'St. Anthony Chorale' [17'28]Sony/RCA 1907 586955-2 [issued 2018][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, no booklet]Disc 201 - 04 Symphony No.2 in D major, op.73 […]
2024-03-04 10:05:00
There is no right reaction to great music
Quite justifiably the adventurous Matangi Quartet from the Netherlands received acclaim for their recent recording of quartets by Silvestrov, Schnittke, and Shostakovich. But their 2022 ECM disc of Ruins and Remains, a suite for piano, string quartet and percussion composed by Wolfert Breferode slipped under the media radar, probably because in the meaningless ontology of music genres it is pigeonholed as 'jazz'. Composer Wolfert Breferode again defies those meaningless pigeonholes: he studied classical and jazz piano at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague before establishing a formidable reputation as a leading Dutch jazz pianist and recording four albums for ECM.Ruins and Remains was composed by Wolfert Breferode in 2018 in response to a commission to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Since the premiere however the work has evolved to embrace a wider perspective on human frailty, helped by the improvisatory experiments of the Matangi Quartet and […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-27 22:55:11
Jared Hackworth What barriers bar the uninitiated from classical concerts? Could the BSO maintain its Big Five prestige and remain accessible to new audiences? To investigate, I attended all three of the BSO’s January concerts: a sold-out presentation of León, Ravel, and Stravinsky; a concert production of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of the Mitsensk District; and a “Casual Friday” concert of Stravinsky. I found dwindling audiences entirely enraptured by the music of one of the world’s best orchestras. Covid had placed performing arts in freefall. Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, said this week that “For most people, the pandemic is over. For arts institutions, we’re still in it,” reporting the need to “withdraw $40 million in additional emergency funds” due to a capacity rate of around “73%.” The New York Philharmonic’s audience is 62% over 55. During the pandemic, these attendance rates plummeted—in 2019, the Pittsburgh Symphony […]
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