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Armenian opera singer (1924-2007)
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Gohar Gasparyan)
- coloratura soprano
- opera
- Kingdom of Egypt, Soviet Union, Armenia
- opera singer, music teacher, politician
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2024-03-27
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2023-10-17 20:46:11
Since 2020 French pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian (born in 1995) has been artist-in-residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation, where he recorded this Debussy recital in 2022. The resonant ambience and slightly distant engineering befits Gasparian’s broadly sculpted renditions of the slower, more introspective selections in Debussy’s Preludes Book I. His spacious and curvy renditions of Danseuses de […]
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2021-07-06 10:15:34
Armenia’s foremost duduk player Jivan Gasparyan died today... The post The duduk weeps appeared first on Slipped Disc.
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Faces of classical music
2019-05-27 19:13:00
The best new classical albums: May 2019
Recording of the MonthGustav Mahler: "Titan", Eine Tondichtung in Symphonieform (Hamburg / Weimar 1893-1894 version)Les Siècles (On period instruments)Conductor: François-Xavier RothRecorded 2018Released on May 10, 2019 by Harmonia mundiForget the Mahler First you know and travel back to the work's second incarnation. This is Titan, a five-movement symphonic poem with a very definite programme, which Mahler later dropped: a man's heroic but ultimately fruitless battle with fate. Playing mainly Austro-German instruments appropriate to the period, Les Siècles make a compelling case for this precursor of Symphony No.1. Beautifully judged, vividly characterised and with a gorgeous range of colours – the later-discarded second movement, "Blumine", is heavenly – this is another triumph for conductor François-Xavier Roth.Source: itunes.apple.comGustav Mahler was not yet thirty years old when he mounted the podium to conduct his "Symphonic Poem" (Sinfonische Dichtung) in the Large Hall of the Redoute (Vigadó) in Budapest on 20 November 1889. The young […]
2018-06-04 23:03:32
Jean-Paul Gasparian is rising to be one of his generation’s top classical pianists. After studying at both the Paris Conservatoire and at the Royal College of Music in London, he has just released his first The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
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