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Hungarian-born conductor and violinist
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- conductor, concertmaster, music teacher, university teacher, composer
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2021-03-11 15:00:24
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Following last week’s Golden Cockerel, Trove Thursday offers another classic Russian opera not in Russian: Borodin’s Fürst Igor with Nelly Miricioiu, Marjana Lipovsek, Bodo Brinkmann, Evgeny Nesterenko, Robert Schunk and Sergei Koptchak conducted by Mark Ermler.
2020-01-30 10:00:00
Rating: 0 Who do today’s leading composers rate as the finest? We asked 174 of them that very question and here, in their own words, we present the fascinating results. ‘Making decisions concerning the “greatest” this or that is always problematic,’ replies composer Brian Ferneyhough, when BBC Music Magazine asks him to name his greatest five composers in history. And, to be fair, he has a point. Can one really compare figures who were writing music 800 years apart? Or weigh the intricate craftmanship of a two-minute piano […]
2019-10-09 19:17:00
Lieder and Mélodie by Franz Liszt : Cyrille Dubois, Tristan Raës
O Lieb ! The Lieder of Franz Liszt with a distinctive spark from Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës, from Aparté. Though young, Dubois is a very highly regarded. His voice has a luminous natural elegance, ideal for the Mélodie and French operatic repertoire he does so well. With these settings by Franz List, Dubois brings out the refinement and sophistication of Liszt's approach to song. Liszt's transcription of Schubert develop the piano part with greater elaboration than the originals. His his own songs and Lieder reflect the the international circles he moved in and the more "modern" times he lived in. As Dubois and Raës explain, "Liszt’s ardour and expression resonate with the youthful nature of our duo, just as his music, so demonstrative and accessible, answers the tumult of our troubled times".This is demonstrated in Die Loreley, second version, LWS273 (1841), to the poem by Heinrich Heine, and possibly […]
2018-09-02 10:36:00
A Relationship of Equals: Beethoven and the Piano Trio
[…] as a gift for Maximiliane Brentano in 1812, again only published posthumously; and the Variations on an original theme in E-flat major op.44 (an early work whose opus number is again misleading). The 1797 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello, op.11, may also be performed with violin instead of clarinet. Beethoven’s most important contributions, however, are generally held to lie in the six ‘official’ piano trios. Compositional Milestone Carl Alois, Fürst von Lichnowsky-Woschütz We start at the beginning, with the first trio from Beethoven’s official op.1, that is, the set of three works Beethoven considered important enough, in 1795, to designate with that number. The Nine Variations on a March by Dressler for piano, published earlier, were not afforded that honour; nor were a number of intervening works. There is something undeniably special, debts to Mozart and Haydn notwithstanding, to this epiphany. All […]
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