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Cuban-born American pianist and teacher
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2021-11-22 14:46:23
Catching up, November 2021
[…] 20th century (b. 11/24/1934),Sergei Taneyevwho lived a century earlier (b. 11/25/1856); and Anton Rubinstein (b. 11/28/1829), the founder of the St.-Petersburg Conservatory, the first in Russia. Last but not least, the composer who establish the Baroque tradition in French music, the Italian Jean-Baptiste Lully. As for instrumentalists and singers, here are several that we’d like to mention. Daniel Barenboim turned 79 on November 15th (read more about him and the cellist Natalia Gutman here). Jorge Bolet was born on the same day in 1914 in Havana, Cuba. A great virtuoso, he lived in the US most of his life. Not as well known or recorded as some of his contemporaries, he was a wonderful interpreter of the works of Liszt and other Romantics. Another American piano virtuoso, Earl Wild, was also born this week, on November 26th of 1915. That’s not all: Ignacy Jan Paderewski, one of the most famous […]
2021-02-22 00:00:00
Decca Eloquence 4
[…] concerts du Conservatoire Julius Katchen piano Pierre Monteux Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 "Romantic" London Symphony Orchestra Itsvan Kertesz John Coprario Funeral Teares Consort Fantasies 1, 5 and 8 Emma Kirkby The Consort of Musicke Anthony Rooley Johann Strauss II Die Fliedermaus Julius Patzak Hilde Gueden Alfred Poell Wiener Philharmoniker Clemens Krauss Claude Debussy 16 Piano Preludes from Books I and II Jorge Bolet Bela Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Igor Stravinsky L’Oiseau de feu: Suite (1919 version) Le Sacre du printemps - Le Chant du Rossignol Zoltan Kodaly Háry János:Suite Concertgebouw Orchestra Eduard von Beinum J. N. Hummel Piano Septet Piano Quintet C. M. von Weber Clarinet Quintet Gervase de Peyer clarinet The Melos Ensemble of London […]
2020-06-29 00:48:57
Although Shura Cherkassky’s unabashedly subjective and capricious style was out of sync with the mid-20th century’s literalist zeitgeist, his way of playing gained newfound acceptance and international acclaim by the mid-1970s, together with similarly inclined pianists benefiting from the “Romantic Revival”, like Jorge Bolet and Earl Wild. If anything, interest in Cherkassky seems to have […]
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Clairvoyant Classical Music
2020-01-20 00:17:25
His earliest known recording: Jorge Bolet – Rachmaninoff Prelude in E-flat, Op. 23, No. 6 (1937)
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