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Czech composer and violoncellist
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2024-04-02 06:39:00
Celebrating 20 years of music in the unique and intimate venues of Fife’s East Neuk
The East Neuk Festival in Fife is beginning two years of celebrations, for the 20th anniversary of its founding in 2024, and the 20th festival in 2025. In the past two decades it has presented more than 400 events featuring nearly 3000 performers playing to a total audience of just over 200,000 people in the unique and intimate venues of Fife’s East Neuk (the fishing villages of the most northerly part of the Firth of Forth). The 2024 festival programme includes musicians from 18 nations converging on East Neuk for a five-day feast of live music, from 26-30 June, ranging from classical to jazz, experimental, traditional and contemporaryThis year's festival has a Czech flavour to some events, welcoming the Pavel Haas Quartet (in its UK debut) and Belfiato Wind Quintet playing five generations of Czech masters including Haas, Janáček, Suk, Reicha and Smetana. But there is also Japanese pianist Hisako Kawamura playing Akio Yashiro’s Sonata for Piano, […]
2024-04-01 04:00:00
Jean-Nicolas Savory The Stradivarius of the Bassoon (Lyndon Watts, Edoardo Torbianelli, Marion Treupel-Franck
Giuseppe Tamplini (1817-1888) Fantasia Bravura for Bassoon & Piano on themes from Donizetti's "La fille du Regiment" Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Trio for Flute, Bassoon & Piano in G, WoO 37Antonin Reicha (1770-1836) Duo for Bassoon & Piano in B-flat majorLyndon Watts, Bassoon; Marion Treupel-Franck, FluteEdoardo Torbianelli-Fortepiano(Period Instruments) Pan Classics PC 10306 (2014)[Flac & Scans]
2024-02-20 10:00:00
From Harald en Italie to Le prophète in New York: 2024 Bard Summerscape focuses on Berlioz and his world
[…] as a vehicle for Enrico Caruso, and returned in 1977 with James McCracken and Marilyn Horne, since then I am not sure whether the opera has had a performance in the USA.In concert there is a chance to hear not only Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique but the far rarer Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie: monodrame lyrique, plus songs, the Te Deum, selections from Les Troyens, Le mort d’Ophélie, Harold en Italie and La damnation de Faust, alongside music by Reicha, Weber, Le Sueur, Spontini, Thomas, Gluck, Auber, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Liszt, Wagner, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Faure, Viardot, Farrenc, Bertin, Grandval, Cherubini, Paganini, Halevy, Adam, Strauss, Ernst, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Hiller, Gottschalk, Raff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, Varese and Messiaen.Full details from the Fisher Center website.
2024-01-31 10:23:00
Salzburg Mozartwoche (4) - Baborák Ensemble: Mozart, Reicha, and Michael Haydn, 29 January 2024
Grosser Saal, MozarteumMozart, arr. Radek Baborák: Horn Concerto no.4 in E-flat major, KV 495 Anton Reicha: Quintet for horn, string quartet, and double bass in E major, op.106 Michael Haydn: Horn Concerto in D major, MH 134: ‘Larghetto’ and Allegro ma non troppo’ Mozart, completed Süssmayr (ed. Baborák): Rondo for horn quintet in D major, KV 514 Mozart: Horn Quintet in E-flat major, KV 407 Radek Baborák (horn)Milan Al-Ashhab, (violin)Martina Bačová (violin, viola)Karel Untermüller (viola)Hana Baboráková (cello)David Pavelka (double bass)Image: Wolfgang Lienbacher Not very often does one have opportunity to hear a chamber concert led by a horn player. Still less will it be by one of the distinction of Radek Baborák. Still less than that will the rest of the ensemble be of the distinction of the players Baborák brought together for this, the fourth of my Mozartwoche performances this year. Mixing the familiar and the considerably less so, […]
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