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Faces of classical music
2020-02-25 19:13:00
Karol Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1 – Christian Tetzlaff, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki
[…] Africa. Like many artists, he found aesthetic resonance in pre-World War I Paris, reflecting after a 1914 stint: "I shall never cease in the conviction [that] a true and deep understanding of French music, of its content, its form, and its further evolution, is one of the conditions for the development of our Polish music".Notwithstanding Szymanowski's cosmopolitan outlook, his First Violin Concerto reveals homegrown roots. It was conceived as a vehicle for Polish violinist Paul Kochanski (though exigencies of the Bolshevik Revolution and World War I caused a change in date, venue, and soloist for the premiere) and inspired by a poem by a member of the Young Poland writers' group, Tadeusz Micinski (1873-1918):All the birds pay tribute to mefor today I wed a goddess.And now we stand by the lake in crimson blossomin flowing tears of joy, with rapture and fear,burning in amorous conflagration.The intense, imagistic lines reveal the […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-10-04 11:25:00
Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ("Enigma Variations") | Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.1 in D major | Donald Erb: The Seventh Trumpet – Gil Shaham, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin – Sunday, October 7, 2018, 03:00 PM EDT (GMT-4) – Livestream
[…] composing his First Violin Concerto in 1915. He was very fond of the opening theme, but was busy working on his opera "The Gambler". He regretted not having more time to work on the Concerto's "pensive opening". When he got back to it, he intended to compose a "concertino" for violin and orchestra, but the piece grew into a three-movement concerto. As musicologist and Prokofiev scholar Israel Nestyev has noted, Prokofiev consulted Polish violinist Paul Kochanski while writing the violin part. Kochanski advised him on bow markings and other technical details, and was supposed to have been the soloist at the premiere, planned for November of 1917. The piano score of the work was completed in the summer of 1917, but because of the revolution in Russia, the Concerto did not receive its first performance until 1923, in Paris.Instead of the usual fast-slow-fast concerto structure, Prokofiev's outer movements are slow, […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-11-05 19:22:11
Quartet joy: Anthea’s stolen violin is returned
[…] in E major on his second violin, a Guarneri. Someone crept into the dressing room and took his “Gibson” with him. It was only half a century later that the violin reappeared. A freelance musician confessed to his wife on the deathbed that he had stolen the “Gibson”. He had covered the violin with shoe polish to cover the glowing wood. Or the story of the then violinist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Pierre Amoyal. His “Kochanski” was stolen in 1987. Only after four years and a high ransom did he get it back. The 75,000 dollars worth Kreston’s violin are little compared to the astronomical prices of the others. Nevertheless, apart from the personal loss – few musicians, even fewer chamber musicians, can buy an expensive instrument themselves. It’s 8pm. The audience in Freiburg is waiting for the performance of the Artemis Quartet. Behind the stage Kreston takes one violin […]
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Royal Opera House
2015-05-01 12:17:04
Król Roger Musical Highlight: Roxana’s Song
Georgia Jarman as Roxana in rehearsal for Król Roger, The Royal Opera © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper Her voice, distant and unseen, comes out of nothing. Roxana sings offstage, a sweet, high, held note that slides yearningly down an unfamiliar, exotic scale. From its first siren call, Roxana’s Song, from Act II of Karol Szymanowski ’s opera Król Roger , intoxicates with its beauty. Roxana’s Song is probably the opera’s best-known music. In the same year the full score was published, in 1926, the publishers released a stand-alone version of the Song for soprano and orchestra. A few years later Szymanowski’s close friend, the violinist Paweł Kochański , released a new version for violin and piano. In this and in a variety of other orchestrations the Song exists in numerous recordings. It is not just the beauty of Roxana’s Song that has made it so attractive […]
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