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2022-03-24 05:49:42
Pianist Miki Yamanaka’s Human Dust Suite was one of the standout releases of 2020, a counterintuitiively colorful reflection inspired by Agnes Denes’ famous photo of cremated human remains. Yamanaka couldn’t wait until the lockdown was over, so she went DIY for her latest album, Stairway to the Stars, an intimate home recording streaming at Bandcamp. […]
2021-12-09 15:00:10
The key of dreams
My sister Julie celebrates an important birthday later this month which reminded me—as I also recalled I visiting her while she was living in Prague—that I should unearth Bohuslav Martin?’s Julietta with Lucia Popp and Dénes Gulyás for this week’s Trove Thursday.
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Faces of classical music
2021-08-22 07:41:00
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No.3 in C major for Solo Violin, BWV 1005 – Isabelle Faust (HD 1080p)
On Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020, the exceptional violinist plays Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata No.3 in C major for Solo Violin, BWV 1005, in the empty St Thomas Church in Leipzig. In these unusual and challenging times, her Bach interpretation exudes calm and confidence. "In her concentration, the violinist acts like a medium through which this unique music reaches us today", says the NZZ about Isabelle Faust's interpretation of the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach. "What Faust is searching for on the inside is [...] a truthfulness that results not only from the study of passed down conceptions of aesthetics, but also from today's attitude towards life. Such a positioning between the fronts makes Faust's violin playing as interesting as it is unique." Source: accentus.com ✻ Bach had an easy solution for the problem of combining the violin with the keyboard: […]
2021-01-25 05:37:00
Senfter: Compositions for Two Violins (CD review)
Concerto in C minor for Two Violins and String Orchestra, Op. 40; Ten Old Dances for Two Violins, Op. 91. Aleksandra Maslovaric, violin; Katarina Aleksic, violin; Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Feminae Records CD1901.By John J. PuccioThese days most people would not recognize the name of German composer Johanna Senfter (1879-1961), even though she wrote some 134 pieces of classical music, eight of them symphonies. Such is life that most of them go forgotten. It was especially hard for a female composer to make much headway in a largely male-dominated musical world. So, enter Feminae Records, a company dedicated to promoting the work of female composers, many of them long neglected.Although not a lot is known about Senfter beyond her music, she did leave behind one revealing quote: “Listen and play my music, then you understand me.”As the founder of Feminae Records, violinist Aleksandra Maslovaric, writes at the Feminae Web site, “Women […]
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