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2023-09-11 13:54:48
From Renaissance to Baroque. 2023
[…] and William Boyce, who, like Beethoven, went deaf but continued, for a while, to compose and play the organ). We wanted to go back a month and commemorate some of the composers born during that time: too many to mention, but two of them, Henry Purcell and Antonin Dvorak, were born last week. And of course, we’ve missed a lot of performers and conductors, among whom were the pianists Aldo Ciccolini and Maria Yudina, Ginette Neveu (violin) and William Primrose (viola), the singers Kathleen Battle and Angela Gheorghiu, and conductors Wolfgang Sawallisch and Karl Böhm. Till next time, then.
2023-08-07 14:34:14
Chaminade and Jolivet, 2023
[…] is somewhat similar to that of a Theremin, another electronic instrument invented by the Russian researcher Leon Theremin around the same time). Jolivet also composed three symphonies, chamber and keyboard music, operas, and many songs. Here, from 1954, is Jolivet’s unusually scored Basson Concerto with the string orchestra, piano and harp (André Jolivet conducts the Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra; Maurice Allard is the bassoonist). And speaking of French music and musicians: the wonderful violinist Ginette Neveu was born on August 11th of 1919. You can read about her here.
2021-08-16 13:57:46
Neveu and Stockhausen, 2021
This Week in Classical Music: August 16, 2021. Ginette Neveu and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Last week we promised to write about the violinist Ginette Neveu. The reason Neveu is not better known is because her life was tragically short. Neveu was born in Paris on August 11th of 1919. Her mother was Ginette’s first violin teacher. Ginette made her first public appearance at the age of seven playing Bruch's Violin Concerto no. 1 and later that same year performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Colonne Orchestra under the direction of Gabriel Pierné. She studied at the Paris Conservatory, receiving a premier prix at the age of 11, and then continued with George Enescu and the Hungarian teacher and violinist Carl Flesch (among Flesch’s pupils were Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Josef Hassid and Henryk Szeryng). In 1935, aged 15, Neveu won the International Wieniawski Competition; David Oistrakh, who was 11 years her older, […]
2021-08-09 13:47:46
composers and Solomon, 2021
[…] a broad repertoire, including Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky. He was a great interpreter of such disparate composers as Beethoven and Chopin. Here is Chopin’s Berceuse, recorded in 1946. Solomon loved to play Brahms’s Intermezzo in C Major Op. 119 No. 3, both during the main program or as an encore. Here’s a recording from 1952. The wonderful Italian pianist Aldo Ciccolini was born on August 15th of 1925. Also this week: the brilliant violinist Ginette Neveu, born on the 11th of August of 1919, who tragically died in a place crash at the age of 30.
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