Eduard Franck News
German composer (1817-1893)
- piano
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- Kingdom of Prussia
- composer, pianist, university teacher
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Young artists in a Georgian country house setting, what's not to love
Dabton HouseDabton House is a Georgian country house on the Queensberry Estate in Dumfriesshire, built in the 1820s and very much a classical villa. From 17 to 19 May 2024, the house is hosting a Classical Music Retreat, giving guests the chance to hear emerging Scottish artists in the intimate confines of Dabton House's drawing room. The weekend is being presented by Absolute Classics, artistic director Alex McQuiston, an organisation that presents classical music across Dumfries & Galloway, showcasing finest classical musicians to audiences while also nurturing and supporting emerging talents.The Classical Music Retreat at Dabton House features Scottish violinist Iona McDonald and pianist Yuki Negishi in Clara Schumann, Franck, Lili Boulanger and Saint-Saens, 16-year-old cellist Will Archibald (runner up in the final of the Scottish Young SoloMusician of the Year in May 2023) with Negishi in Schumann, Ligeti and Rachmaninov, Scottish soprano Catriona McArthur with Negishi in an eclectic programme […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 19:16:31
NEP Piques Our Interest
[…] instrument, mechanical features can differ dramatically from one instrument to the next; pistons are in different locations, the number of keyboards varies, the action is sensitive or sluggish (causing a disconcerting delay in sound). These kinds of radical shifts can be dangerously distracting during a live performance; playing with a score is less risky. Gil, I know that you often memorize scores you conduct, but Paul Jacobs has done the complete Bach, Messiaen, Brahms, and Franck from memory? Wadaya think of that? GR: Well, that’s got to be like 70 hours of music! Back to the current interview. Paul, what kind of an electronic organ will you be using? PJ: We’ll use an Allen Digital Organ for the performance. Since the venue doesn’t already have a pipe organ, we needed to secure a digital instrument for John Harbison’s superbly crafted composition to be programmed. My philosophy is that it’s preferable […]
2024-02-26 19:53:54
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] write a book about this symphony a few years later (2011). Eventually I began to go more often to hear concerts in Symphony Hall and to watch Charles Munch. I was blown away by my first experience of Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion under Munch’s direction, in 1957. That year he also directed the premiere of David Diamond’s Sixth Symphony, which was savaged by the critics the next day, but I had gone there to hear Franck’s Symphony in D Minor. In college I went to Symphony much more frequently, sometimes packing a brown-bag sandwich and skipping a Friday morning class to get in line for 90-cent rush seats (second balcony center). In 1957 I heard the Boston premiere of Stravinsky’s Agon, which used up so much rehearsal time that Bruckner’s Seventh, which rounded out the program, suffered in accuracy. I wonder if Munch really loved Bruckner, in any case. In […]
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