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2021-05-17 13:58:34
Miscellanea, May 2021
This Week in Classical Music: May 17, 2021. Miscellanea. The music of Erik Satie provides respite from the drudgery of everyday life: just listen to his Gymnopédie no. 1 in Pascal Rogé’s interpretation. Satie was born on this day in 1866. Wagner’s music is a different world entirely. Richard Wagner was also born this week, on May 22nd of 1813 (are we the only ones who finds it incongruous, both musically and historically, that Wagner was only a year and a half younger than his father-in-law, Franz Liszt?). And the wonderful Jean Françaix, a composer with a great sense of humor, was also born this week, on May 23rd of 1912. He gave us many examples of how to write accessible but sophisticated music, his Concerto for Piano of Orchestra being one of them. Here his daughter Claude Françaix performs it with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of […]
2018-10-03 09:00:00
The best recordings of Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata
[…] at a tempo that seems bananas – but is delivered with irresistible exhilaration and wonder. Some others play it nearly as fast, yet without half such satisfying substance. The best recordings of Respighi's Pines of Rome A guide to Mahler's First Symphony Three more great recordings Solomon (piano)Warner Classics 476 8652 We’re allowed just three runners-up, so apologies that my all-male shortlist just misses out the fiery Mitsuko Uchida and shining-toned Yvonne Lefébure. But my next choice is Solomon, recorded in 1952. Sound quality is rough, and there are wrong notes, but this artist exists in some state of grace. There’s a humane, multi-faceted radiance about his playing. He makes the most of the work’s colouristic potential for pointing up dramatic progression, something that is sustained throughout his glorious Adagio, as rapt as a state of deep meditation. And his fugue is life-affirming. The […]
2018-05-14 03:54:11
Monteverdi, Curzon, François, 2018
May 14, 2018. Monteverdi, Curzon, François. On May 15th of last year we celebrated the 450th anniversary of the great Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. We’ve also written about him on many previous occasions, for example here and here. Even though he’s famous as the “father of the opera,” Monteverdi worked in practically all musical genres popular at the end of the 16th – early 17th centuries. He wrote sacred music (vespers and motets), but his madrigals are especially beautiful. The seventh book of madrigals (altogether he wrote nine “books” or collections) was written in Venice, where Monteverdi moved in 1613 after a long and highly productive period at the Mantuan court. In Venice he held a prestigious position of the maestro di cappella at San Marco. The seventh book was published in 1619 and contains 28 madrigals. Within the book, the music varies significantly. Compare, for example, Ohimè dov'è il […]
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2017-10-06 16:28:40
That Nude Mona Lisa Newly Attributed To Leonardo? Nothing New Here At All
In reality, this latest New Leonardo Discovery is a warm-up of an old, on-the-record, attribution. In 1988 Jacques Franck, the art historian/painter trained in Old Master techniques (and a current restoration adviser to the Louvre), had closely examined the Joconde nue in the Château of Chantilly along with Amélie Lefébure, former Head curator of the Musée Condé, […]
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