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2024-04-08 14:26:23
Sol Hurok, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: April 8, 2024. Sol Hurok, Impresario. He was neither a musician nor a composer, but Sol Hurok did for classical music in America more than almost any other person we can think of. Hurok was born Solomon Gurkov on April 9th of 1888 in Zarist Russia and moved to New York in 1906. A natural organizer, he started with left-wing politics in Brooklyn; that didn’t last long as he switched to representing musicians: Efrem Zimbalist and Mischa Elman, the talented violinists who also emigrated from Russia, were among his first clients. He represented the Russian bass Fyodor Chaliapin for several years (he also worked with Nellie Melba and Titta Ruffo). He then turned to dance: Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, and Michel Fokine became his clients, as well as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. In 1942, he organized one of the first tours of the […]
2023-09-15 12:17:17
Lebrecht Weekly | Mieczyslaw Weinberg: 12th symphony/Dawn (Chandos)
In Dmitri Shostakovich’s last years, Mieczyslaw Weinberg stopped writing symphonies. After his 51th in 1970, nothing more stirred in him until, in December 1975, four months after his friend’s passing, he began a memorial symphony. The 12th did not go well. The influential conductor Kirill Kondrashin rejected the overlong opening movement and the hourlong score did not [...]
2021-05-01 08:37:54
The perfect lockdown piano concerto: pianist Mark Bebbington on recording Poulenc's 'Aubade' and 'Le Bal masqué' for Resonus Classics
Mark Bebbington at 2019 recording session for Resonus Classics' first Poulenc disc (Photo Nick Rutter) One of the most imaginative concerts that I came across last Autumn, with ensembles allowed to perform yet restricted as to numbers, was one at St John's Smith Square where Jan Latham Koenig conducted members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) with pianist Mark Bebbington and baritone Roderick Williams in Poulenc's Aubade and Le Bal masqué, two works which are woefully under-represented both on the concert platform and on disc [see my review]. Mark Bebbington, Jan Latham Koenig and the RPO have already given us a fascinating disc of Poulenc's music on Resonus Classics which combined the piano version of the Concert champêtre with the Piano Concerto and chamber music [see my review], and now a second Poulenc disc has just been issued by the same team. The new disc combines Poulenc's Aubade […]
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2020-03-20 17:17:06
Happy birthday to Sviatoslav Richter! His first ever performance of the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 from 1955 has not circulated widely, it is even more exciting than the later commercial releases with Kondrashin:
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