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2022-11-25 15:03:03
Pianist Eri Yamamoto survived a hideous attack to make a beautiful record. In the early days of the 2020 lockdown, Yamamoto was assaulted on a Brookyn street. Her attacker mistook her for Chinese (she’s Japanese) and accused her of unleashing the Covid virus (which seems to have been manufactured in China, but was invented in […]
2021-11-05 10:36:49
Quartet Integra, which was formed in 2015, consists of violinists Misawa Kyoka and Kikuno Rintaro, violist Yamamoto Itsuki, and cellist Tsukiji Anri. Second prize was awarded to the Vienna-based Chaos String Quartet, and the Sonoro Quartet of Belgium was third. Quartet Integra are currently Chamber Music Fellows at Tokyo's Suntory Hall. They were the winners […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-10-28 07:28:14
Three Tributes: music by Kevin Puts, Andrea Clearfield and Gunther Schuller
[…] was commissioned in 2002 specifically as a companion piece to Schubert's Trout Quintet (which itself had been commissioned as a companion work to an earlier quintet with the same line up). The work is in three movements and opening Adagio, a scherzo and a final movement which is a set of variations on a melody which Puts wrote to set a poem by Jack Brannon about the red snapper. It is played here by Sandy Yamamoto(violin), John Largess (viola), Amy Levine Tsang (cello), Peter Lloyd (double bass) and Gilbert Kalish (piano) The first movement opens with mysterious chords before developing into a yearning cello solo. Puts' language here is tonal and almost romantic with just a hint of spice to the harmonies. This develops into lyrically passionate string lines intertwining with more dynamic piano, the result is a slow build to a powerful climax which then quickly dissipates leaving us […]
2020-04-30 07:40:48
Russian opera before Glinka: Karina Gauvin & Pacific Baroque Orchestra's Nuits Blanches on ATMA
[…] - CD review I need a subject that is grandiose, impassioned & original: the influence of Meyerbeer & French Grand Opera on the operas of Verdi - my feature article Completely magical: music by Arvo Pärt, Peteris Vasks, James MacMillan on this new disc from Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge - CD review Handel: works for viola da gamba - Ibrahim Azizi & Masumi Yamamoto give us a flavour of the sort of programme that an 18th century viola da gamba player might have assembled - CD review Home
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