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English song writer active during the heyday of the Victorian music hall
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Born: November 12, 1939 – Slovakia Died: November 16, 1993 – Munich, Germany Lucia Popp initially studied medicine for two semesters. Later a voice teacher at her Academy, happened to hear her singing during a performance of Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and offered her voice lessons. Only then did Ms. Popp begin studying music and singing at the Conservatories of Brünn and Prague. She attended the Bratislava Music Academy for four years, completing course in general music and voice studies. She began her studies as a mezzo-soprano, but her voice quite suddenly developed a high upper register. Lucia Popp made
2019-09-05 16:17:50
Prom 61: Ultimately, rather uninvolved - the Vienna Philharmonic in Dvořák and Korngold
Prom 61 - Leonidas Kavakos, Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraBBC Proms 2019 (Photo BBC / Chris Christodoulou) Dvořák The Noonday Witch, Korngold Violin Concerto Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor; Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrés Orozco-Estrada;BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall Reviewed by Colin Clarke on 4 September 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The Vienna Philharmonic's second 2019 Prom saw them in a rather different mood in a programme full of Czech links.Prom 61: The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (VPO) and Andrés Orozco-Estrada in Dvořák's The Noonday Witch, Korngold's Violin Concerto, with Leonidas Kavakos (violin) and Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor on Wednesday 4 September 2019 at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. If the previous night’s VPO concert with Haitink [see Colin Clarke's review] had been chalk, this was the cheese. Haitink provided a once-in-a-lifetime experience, supremely elevating tinged […]
2018-09-16 23:00:00
Clemens Krauss: The Collection 1929-1954 [CDs 61 - 76]
Clemens Krauss: THE COLLECTION 1929-1954 [97 CDs]Third installment : Discs 61-76Venias VN033 (mono) - No publication date givenDetails of works performed below, and in scanned booklet,available for download with the first installment FLAC image files, cuesheets, logs, scans Clemens Heinrich Krauss was a leading Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, who got to his major positions by the resignation of conductors less sympathetic to the German Nazi regime.His mother was Clementine Krauss, a leading Viennese actress and singer. He was also related to Gabrielle Krauss (1842 - 1904), an important nineteenth century soprano. His father was a figure in the Austrian Imperial Court. When Clemens went into music, he used his mother's name because of its theatrical history.When he was a boy, he was a chorister in the Hofkapelle (Imperial Choir). He attended the Vienna Conservatory, graduating in 1912. He studied composition with Grädener and theory […]
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2017-05-26 11:31:21
Hans Gal (1890-1987) Concertino for Cello and Strings, opus 87 Hans Gál was born in the small village of Brunn am Gebirge, just outside Vienna. He studied with some of the foremost teachers in Vienna, including Richard Robert for piano (teacher of Rudolf Serkin , Clara Haskil and George Szell) and Eusebius Mandyczewski for composition, who had been a close friend of Brahms. In 1915 he won the K. und K. (Royal and Imperial) State Prize for composition for a symphony (which he subsequently discarded). In 1928 His Sinfonietta (which was to become his ‘First Symphony) won the Columbia Schubert Centenary Prize. The next year, with the support of such important musicians as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss and others, he obtained the directorship of the Mainz Conservatory. Gál composed in nearly every genre and his operas, which include Der Artz der Sobeide, Die Heilige Ente and Das Lied […]
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