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2023-07-28 18:14:53
Lebrecht Weekly | Eugène Ysaye: Solo violin sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Every era has its defining violinist. For the second half of the 19th century it was the avuncular Joseph Joachim, for the first third of the 20th the mischievous Fritz Kreisler. Then came Heifetz, Menuhin, Perlman, briefly Vengerov and Anne-Sophie Mutter. If there is a defining violinist in the present century I suspect it is [...]
2022-10-03 14:16:11
Arnold Schoenberg, part IV, 2022
[…] UCLA professorship. He was 70 but had to support himself, as his pension was too small, so he reverted to giving private lessons and occasional lectures. In 1946 he had a heart attack which almost killed him, but he lived another five years, mostly in seclusion. Schoenberg died on July 13th of 1951. During the American period of his life, Schoenberg composed several important works, among them two concertos, one for the violin (“unplayable” in Heifetz’s opinion) and one for the piano; one of the few tonal works of the period, Kol Nidre, for chorus and orchestra; and A Survivor from Warsaw, dedicated to survivals of the Holocaust. Here’s Kol Nidre; Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
2022-09-21 06:00:22
Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy”: Two Legendary Heifetz Recordings
The German composer, Max Bruch (1838-1920), had a longstanding fascination with the “exotic” culture and rugged, enchanting topography of Scotland. Bruch read German translations of the novels of Sir Walter Scott and created musical settings for several poems by Robert Burns. The Scots Musical Museum was an influential collection of Scottish folk music which was compiled by Burns and the engraver and publisher, James Johnson, between 1787 and 1803. In addition to inspiring ...
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