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Clairvoyant Classical Music
2019-09-26 11:34:15
Sviridov is the master of choir music
2018-11-13 08:01:49
Anglais - Ildar Abdrazakov's recital conquers La Scala
The bass Ildar Abdrazakov has it all: the sumptuous voice, the rock solid technique, refined musicality and a gift for story telling with which he brings music and text to life. But that Abdrazakov has talent is hardly news in Milan -- the bass has regularly featured in opera productions here for nearly two decades. Instead, the big revelation from this La Scala recital was just how versatile he is. In Milan, Abdrazakov has always been most readily associated with Verdi. He has recently given the outstanding performance in La Scala's new production of Ernani, and next up will take the title role in Attila. The latter title is to open the season on the traditional date of 7th December – the biggest event of the Italian operatic calendar – making it a high-stakes outing for Abdrazakov. Not only will the eyes of the opera world be trained on […]
2018-10-12 21:44:21
The Russian violinist Evgeny Sviridov, winner of the MA Festival Bruges Competition in 2017, has chosen to devote his first recording to the sonatas of Giuseppe Tartini. Evgeny Sviridov was born on February 17th, 1989 in St.-Petersburg. At the age of five he began playing the violin. In 1996 he entered the special musical school at the St.-Petersburg Conservatory at the class of Elena Zaytseva, and since November 2005 Evgeny Sviridov has been studying with Prof. Popov. As heir to the Baroque tradition of the early eighteenth century, Giuseppe Tartini developed technical performance concepts much bolder than those of his predecessors,
2018-05-01 09:00:00
Rating: 0 Shostakovich – Symphony No. 8 Composed in 1943, Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony was denounced by the Soviet authorities as counterrevolutionary and anti-Soviet. Shostakovich described this symphony as a ‘poem of suffering’, and publically called it ‘an attempt to reflect the terrible tragedy of war’. However, in private he admitted that the piece was for those who ‘were tortured, shot and starved to death’ in the Soviet Union under Stalin’s regime. Prokofiev – Seymon Kotko Prokofiev was one of the major composers of the 20th century […]
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