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Czech conductor and composer
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Unashamedly delicious: Nostalgic Russia, music for violin and piano from Hideko Udagawa and Petr Limonov
Nostalgic Russia - Tchaikovsky, Eduard Nápravník, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Arensky, Scriabin, Shostakovich, Kabalevsky; Hideko Udagawa, Petr Limonov; Northern Flowers Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 21 May 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The London-based Japanese violinist returns to Russia with a wonderful cache of richly melodic repertoire from the late 19th and early 20th centuriesThere is something unashamedly delicious about the music on this new album, Nostalgic Russia from violinist Hideko Udagawa and pianist Petr Limonov on Northern Flowers. It brings together short pieces by Russian composers from the late 19th and early 20th century, works which enjoy their melody in an unashamed way but which are sophisticated too. So we have music by Tchaikovsky, Eduard Nápravník, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Arensky, Scriabin, Shostakovich and Kabalevsky, some written originally for violin and piano, others in arrangements by Mikhailovsky, Kreisler, Mogilevsky, Heifetz, and Tsyganov. We begin with Tchaikovsky, arrangements of […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-07-16 14:46:00
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 in B minor "Pathétique" – San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (Download 44.1kHz/16bit)
[…] been puzzling and somehow "unfinal". Another factor would have been a weakness in the presentation. Tchaikovsky, though he lacked a performer's temperament, had become an efficient conductor by the end of his life; he was, however, always affected by an orchestra's mood, and the Saint Petersburg players' initial coolness to the new score depressed him and sapped his enthusiasm for the task. At the second performance, which was under the baton of the excellent Eduard Nápravník, the Pathétique made a powerful impression.Between the two first performances of the Pathétique there was a difference beyond Nápravník's commanding presence on the podium. Tchaikovsky had died twelve days before, and that was something the audience could not stop thinking about as they bathed in what the English writer Martin Cooper called the "voluptuous gloom" of this all but posthumous symphony. Black drapery and a bust modeled after Tchaikovsky's death mask heightened the atmosphere.Tchaikovsky […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-10-23 17:54:09
Boston Phil Delivers
[…] of its second performance, asking us to imagine a “hall draped in black crepe.” But Zander also prefaced Steinberg’s footnotes (now also found in his published collection The Symphony) with a summary of his own: Tchaikovsky wrote this, his last symphony, between February and the end of August 1893 and conducted the first performance in the Hall of Nobles, Saint Petersburg, on 28 October, nine days before his death. The second performance, under Eduard Nápravník, took place twenty days later in the same hall as part of a memorial concert. The work is dedicated to Tchaikovsky’s nephew Vladimir (Bob) Davidov. Thorwald Jørgensen plays theremin By choosing to print Steinberg’s extensive essay on the piece, which famously chronicles/debunks the myth of Tchaikovsky’s suicide (in three long paragraphs), and then details the history of the subtitle “Pathétique” (in three paragraphs), Zander was able to present the symphony as […]
2015-10-20 15:12:19
In 1842 Richard Wagner’s opera “Rienzi” had its premiered in Dresden at the Hoftheater. In 1847 Albert Lortzing’s opera “Undine” (2nd version) was premiered in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien. In 1860 Johannes Brahms’ String Sextet No. 1 in Bb, Op. 18, was premiered in Hanover, by violinist Joseph Joachim and his ensemble. Charles Ives In 1874 Charles Ives was born in Danbury, Connecticut. He was an American modernist composer and one of the first American composers to garner international renown, though his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, he came to be regarded as an “American original”. He combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques […]
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