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Austrian-American composer (1900–1991)
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2024-01-06 09:54:00
At Kings Place this month, Turkish pianist Can Çakmur celebrates the Hamamatsu Competition which he won in 2018, not to mention embarking on his 12-disc Schubert with BIS
[…] was the Editor's Choice in the August 2023 edition of Gramophone magazine.The Schubert+ series has now expanded to 12 discs (following the decision to re-record the Schubert sonata that he included on his prize-winners disc), each disc pairing Schubert with other works that make sense from either a compositional point of view or an historical one. This will also be a way to give context to Schubert's youthful pieces and his unfinished ones, so that Krenek's completion of one of Schubert's unfinished sonatas will be paired with Krenek's own compositions to make what Can feels is a thought-provoking programme. There will be a programme of impromptus, with music from before Schubert, through Schubert to Chopin right through to the 20th century, each composer Can feels indebted in some way to the past and thus creating a line which follows through, in a programme that he describes as more fun to […]
2023-12-04 15:01:32
Ernst Toch and more, 2023
[…] And they didn’t need permission to work as long as positions were available. Musically, the pre-WWI Austria and Germany were one space, even more so than they are now. Toch was at his most productive in the 1920s, when he wrote the Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra, Bunte Suite, two short operas, many chamber pieces and piano music. Here’s Bunte Suite, whose sophisticated humor reminds us of the music of another Austrian composer, Ernst Krenek. The Suite is performed by the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Cornelius Meister conducting. You can read about Toch’s life after Hitler assumed power in last year’s post. Jean Sibelius was also born this week, on December 8th of 1865. We have to admit that we’re not big fans of the Finnish composer, but his one-movement Symphony no. 7, is a masterpiece. Even though it’s his shortest, about 23 minutes long depending on […]
2022-08-22 14:33:55
Lukas Foss and Ivry Gitlis, 2022
[…] though Gitlis played a wide contemporary repertoire (and had many pieces written for him), he was rather old-fashioned when playing the Romantics. You can hear it in this interpretation of César Franck’s Violin sonata which he played in 1998 with none other than Martha Argerich (this is a live recording). Gitlis was then 78. He died in Paris on December 24th of 2020 at the age of 98. Several composers were born this week, Ernst Krenek, Leonard Bernstein and Karlheinz Stockhausen among them. Claude Debussy, who was born on this day in 1862, 160 years ago has a special place in our heart. Check out our library, it has about 250 recordings of Debussy’s works, so if you wish to celebrate him today, browse it and find something to your liking. It’s very much worth it.
Kenneth Woods- A View From the Podium
2022-04-03 15:16:59
A true story
The worst rental materials I’ve ever been sent where those the Krenek Double Concerto for Violin and Piano, part the Krenek Piano Concertos project that the English Symphony Orchestra did for Toccata Classics with the stupendous Mikhail Korzhev in 2016-17. They were shocking, but, in that case, we couldn’t re-engrave them, so my librarian heroically […]
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