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2022-03-18 08:06:37
Music dealer Pietro Mechetti repeats his advertisement for piano duet arrangements of the King Stephan Overture and the Overture to the Creatures of Prometheus (neither arranged by Beethoven) in today’s Wiener Zeitung. Beethoven almost certainly received no compensation for these publications.
2022-03-13 17:41:45
Today’s Wiener Zeitung includes a large advertisement from Pietro Mechetti art and music dealer, for a Carl Maria von Weber piano concerto, but it is unclear which one, op.11 or op.32. Mechetti also advertises more than two dozen other works, both vocal and instrumental, by Weber, probably capitalizing on the …
2019-02-09 04:36:00
Classical Music News of the Week, February 9, 2019
[…] and many others. It will also include the songs and concertos of Villa-Lobos. The music will be performed by the Minas Gerais Symphony Orchestra, the Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra, and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. The first release focuses on the music of Alberto Nepomuceno, one of the first composers in his country to employ elements of folklore in his composition. Performed by the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra led by music director and principal conductor Fabio Mechetti, the album includes Nepomuceno's Prelude to O Garatuja; Série Brasileira; and his Symphony in G Minor. In announcing this project, Naxos founder Klaus Heymann commented: "This new 30-album project, "The Music of Brazil," introduces the general public to a wide range of often unknown composers and orchestral works. The project is a continuation of my longstanding interest in the classical music of Brazil. --Paula Mlyn, A440 ArtsWill Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo Announces Its Second Annual […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-05-08 09:54:33
Report: Chief conductor walks out
There were murmurs of discontent when the Brazilian conductor last year flew in as principal conductor of the Malaysian Philharmonic, an orchestra boycotted by international organisations for its brutal dismissal of mostly non-Asian musicians. Today, we hear that Mechetti has resigned. He told a Slipped Disc source that he had been treated ‘unprofessionally, unethically and with disrespect’ by the orchestra’s management. He told the orchestra he had been prevented making improvements in ‘certain areas’. He quit during a week of Mahler Sixth performances, delivering an unscheduled third (or fourth) hammer blow. The MPO has reconfirmed its status as an international outcast. Though there will be no shortage of desperate applicants for its vacant podium.