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A professor at the Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, Italian pianist Martina Frezzotti studied with Lazar Berman, and later with Elisso Virsaladze at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow, where she earned her doctorate. She follows up her marvelous Piano Classics solo debut CD devoted to Fanny Mendelssohn’s music with a well-curated Amy Beach program that represents […]
2022-02-08 09:19:24
Celebrating the BBC orchestras and the BBC Singers
Sir Adrian Boult & the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1932 (image from a Pathe newsreel) There is sometimes a general tendency to take the BBC's performing groups for granted, only really taking notice of them when their existence is threatened. But across the country, they do amazing work, both live and broadcast, supporting a wide range of contemporary composers from Jonny Greenwood to Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and providing a core backbone of performance that it is sometimes easy to take for granted. This weekend (11-13 February 2022), the BBC is celebrating its centenary with BBC 100 and as part of that is celebrating its performing groups, with each one being broadcast in a celebratory performance. And there is plenty of excitement ahead too, as Ryan Wigglesworth has been announced as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's next chief conductor.They have a long history (though interestingly, the oldest broadcasting orchestra in […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-02-19 14:56:00
Francis Poulenc: Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor – Alexandеr Malofeev, Sandro Nebieridze, State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov", Alexander Sladkovsky (HD 1080p)
Accompanied by the State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov" under the baton of the vibrant Russian conductor Alexander Sladkovsky, the young pianists Alexandеr Malofeev (Russia) and Sandro Nebieridze (Georgia) perform Francis Poulenc's Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor. Recorded at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, on April 29, 2018.✻Poulenc composed this music in 1932, and played the first performance with Jacques Fevrier on September 5 during the Fifth International Music Festival in Venice, with Désire Defauw conducting the La Scala Orchestra from Milan. It is scored for double winds and brass plus piccolo, English horn, tuba, assorted drums, and reduced strings.While Poulenc was studying with Koechlin, Serge Diaghilev commissioned him to write Les biches (colloquially "The Girls") for his Ballets Russes. Produced in 1924, this made Poulenc famous. He solidified his reputation in 1928 with the delectable Concert champêtre for harpsichord. The saucy-sentimental Two-Piano Concerto followed […]
2018-02-26 04:39:56
Chopin, Vivaldi 2018
February 16, 2018. Another rich week. Chopin, Rossini, Smetana, Vivaldi – way too much for one week. Fortunately, last year we wrote about the first three, so we’ll just play a bit of Chopin’s music. Just two days ago we came across a live video of a Chopin recital given by the Georgian pianist Eliso Virsaladze. Ms. Virsaladze, who is 75 years old, started with the Polonaise-fantaisie op. 61, then played the massive Piano sonata no. 3. In the second half it was several nocturnes, valses and one Etude, no. 3, op. 10. She even played an encore, a Mazurka, Op. 30, no. 4. It was a long program even for a young pianist and the performance, if maybe not technical perfect (she clearly got tired by the end), was very satisfying. Eliso’s first teacher was her grandmother, Anastasia Virsaladze, a pupil of the famous Anna Yesipova (Yesipova, a very […]
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