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2022-08-01 20:36:18
Luiz Costa (1879-1960) enjoyed a long and multi-faceted career in his native Portugal as pianist, prolific composer, teacher, and concert organizer. His resumé included youthful studies with Ferruccio Busoni and Liszt pupil José Vianna da Motta, collaborations with Alfred Cortot, Pablo Casals, and Georges Enescu, as well as having given the first performance in Portugal […]
2021-07-26 13:25:14
Giuseppe Di Stefano, 2021
This Week in Classical Music: July 26, 2021. Di Stefano. We missed a big date, Giuseppe Di Stefano’s 100th anniversary, by two days: he was born in a small village of Motta Sant’Anastasia, near Catania in Sicily on July 24th of 1921. His family moved all the way north to Milan when Giuseppe was six. At the age of 20 he began voice studies with Luigi Montesanto, a fine baritone and teacher. The war interrupted his career as Di Stefano was conscripted. The regiment’s doctor, having heard him singing, gave him a medical dispensation, saying that he would better serve Italy as singer than a soldier. The regiment was sent to the Russian front where most of the soldiers, including the doctor, were killed. In 1943 Di Stefano fled to Switzerland, was interned there but then released. In Lausanne he made his first recordings. He returned to Italy in 1946 and […]
2020-04-06 06:36:31
Between 1999 and 2007 the Vianna da Motta International Music Foundation brought out 10 CDs containing all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas with Sequeira Costa. The recordings subsequently were licensed to the Claudio label, which now bundles the individual releases together both as a tribute to the Beethoven 250th anniversary and as a memorial to the […]
2014-12-07 21:00:00
A personal selection of the most interesting concerts in Vienna and Lisbon on the week starting on 8 December 2014. Vienna Musikverein, 9 December : Tonkuenstler-Orchester/Cappella Amsterdam/Reuss/Sampson/Kielland/Hobbs/Williams (Bach) Konzerthaus 9 and 10 Dec : Vienna Symphony Orchestra / D. Roth / Harteros /F-X Roth (Berlioz, Strauss, Saint-Saens) Konzerthaus 10 Dec : Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Nelsons (Strauss) Musikverein 10 Dec : Matosinhos String Quartet (Mozart, Shostakovich, Vianna da Motta, Ravel) Konzerthaus 12 Dec : Grigorij Sokolov, piano (Bach, Beethoven, Chopin) Konzerthaus 12 Dec : Klangforum Wien / Camberling (Murail, Haas, Pintscher) Konzerthaus 13 Dec : Kaufmann / Deutsch (Schumann, Strauss) Musikverein 13 and 14 Dec : Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Nelsons / Werba (Haydn, Elgar, Strauss) For opera see here and here . Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation 10 Dec : Alina Ibragimova, violin (Bach) Gulbenkian Foundation 11 and 12 Dec : Gulbenkian Orchestra / Hrusa (Smetana) Hot […]
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