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2024-01-06 09:54:00
At Kings Place this month, Turkish pianist Can Çakmur celebrates the Hamamatsu Competition which he won in 2018, not to mention embarking on his 12-disc Schubert with BIS
[…] and thus sleeps, and he has adventures too, and he sees places.Can Çakmur (Photo: HIPIC)When I ask about heroes, the first name he mentions is baritone Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and the second is Robert Fripp, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. Can describes Fripp as incredible, his music is marvellous. Another hero is Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache, and two Hungarian pedagogues, Ferenc Rados, and György Sebők. Can feels that he has learned as much from Robert Fripp's music as from any classical music; Fripp's care for instrumental ability is close to what classical musicians do. Classical musicians have to be technically proficient, and sometimes it is easy to forget why. Also, Fripp's use of irregular rhythms links him to a lot of Balkan and Hungarian music. When I ask about his interest in Hungarian pedagogues he explains that his teacher until he […]
2023-05-22 21:52:00
Every Good Boy Does Fine
[…] to him. The book is appropriately modest; to find out just how good a player Denk is, you'll have to see him in concert or buy his recordings.His teachers are quite a group, and as he approaches graduation from Oberlin, his undergraduate institution, he makes a last-minute decision not to go to USC, where he has been admitted and knows with whom he'd be studying, and to instead go to Indiana University to study with György Sebők, a wizardly Hungarian pianist and teacher. Sebők isn't nearly as well-known as his compatriot, dear friend, and fellow Hungarian, the cellist Janos Starker, but he was clearly the right teacher at the right time for Denk. The book is dedicated to him, and it's clear how much Denk loved and admired him, and why. There are also some mentions of the pianist and teacher Evelyn Brancart, who seems wise in ways different from and complementary […]
2022-05-19 05:07:00
Opalescent (CD review)
Andrew York: Hidden Realm of Light; Kevin Callahan: Alki Point; Michael Hedges: Aerial Boundaries; Phillip Houghton: Opals; Frederic Hand: Chorale; Robert Beaser: Chaconne; Tilman Hoppstock: Suite Transcendent; Houghton: Wave Radiance. Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (John Dearman, William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant, and Matthew Greif, guitars) LAGQ Records LAGQ 0322.By Karl W. Nehring The last time we encountered the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, they were playing a composition by the iconic jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, a review of which can be found here: ici (By the way, in the “it’s a small world” department, the producer of Opalescent, Steve Rodby, was for many years the bassist for the Pat Metheny Group.) This new release, which marks the LAGQ’s 40th anniversary as a touring ensemble and is dedicated to the late Australian composer Phillip Houghton (1954-2018), two of whose compositions are included in this album. In fact, his […]
2019-02-26 01:53:53
Cellist János Starker and pianist György Sebök, both born in Hungary in the early 1920’s, made a musical team for some 60 years. These recordings were made in 1959 in Paris, where they both found themselves after the Soviet crackdown on Hungary. “Starker at the peak of his form,” wrote Gramophone. “The cello’s timbre is refined and subtly coloured … and the pianist is completely in harmony with his partner.” Here is Mr. Starker, playig the music of Bach:
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