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Danish-American violinist and composer
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2024-03-23 15:27:00
R.I.P. Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024)
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)Maurizio Pollini was one of the guiding lights of my musical life: which is to say, he and his music-making were with me from the moment in my teens when I became seriously interested in music. More, composers and performers alike, are gone now than remain with us; I shall not tempt fate by naming those who are left. One of my very first cassette purchases – it may even have been the first – was his recording of Mozart’s Piano Concertos nos 19 and 23 with Karl Böhm and the Vienna Philharmonic. I love it more than I can say. Mozart’s music requires but one thing: perfection. Perfection it receives in what, I suspect, will always be one of my Desert Island Discs. In my first London concert, a Prom for which I took the bus up to London and back to Sheffield for a birthday treat […]
2023-10-26 06:37:00
Stories in music in Oxford: visual inspirations from the Mendelssohn siblings, William Blake in song & image, vivid story-telling from Wolf & Mörike
Mendelssohn, Looking at Blake, Hugo Wolf: Mörike Lieder; Harriet Burns, Alessandro Fisher, Eugene Asti, Robin Tritschler, Christopher Glynn, Thomas Oliemans, Hans Eijsackers; Oxford Lieder FestivalMusic, visual arts and story-telling in a day at the Oxford International Song Festival, ranging widely over the Mendelssohn siblings' relationship, 20th century settings of Blake, and Hugo Wolf in devilishly good formTuesday 24 October 2023 was a day of stories at the Oxford International Song Festival. Things began with soprano Harriet Burns, tenor Alessandro Fisher and pianist Eugene Asti in songs by both Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, then at rush hour, tenor Robin Tritschler and pianist Christopher Glynn combined 20th-century settings of William Blake with the artist's own images, and in the evening we had the vivid story-telling of baritone Thomas Oliemans and pianist Hans Eijsackers in a selection of Wolf's Mörike-Lieder.The day had begun with a Show and Tell at The Weston Library, looking at Mendelssohn-related […]
2023-08-29 09:13:00
Salzburg Festival (1) - Volodos: Mompou, Liszt, and Scriabin, 18 August 2023
Grosser Saal, MozarteumMompou: Musica callada, nos 1, 2, 27, 24, 25, 11, 15, 22, 16, 6, 21, 28 Liszt: Ballade no.2 in B minor, S 171Scriabin: Études in F-sharp minor, op.8 no.2; in B-flat minor, op.8 no.11; Préludes in E-flat minor, op.11 no.14; in B major, op.16 no.1; in E-flat minor, op.16 no.4; in B major, op.22 no.3; in B-flat minor, op.31 no.1; Deux Poèmes, op.63; En rêvant, op.71 no.2; Flammes sombres, op.73 no.2; Piano Sonata no.10, op.70; Vers la flamme, op.72Image: © SF/Marco BorrelliOpportunities are rare to hear the music of Federico Mompou, and from a pianist of the stature of Arcadi Volodos rarer still. My friend and colleague Erik Levi, who also wrote the excellent English-language programme essay for this recital, described Mompou to me as ‘Webern meets Satie’: a good and intriguing starting point. In this selection of twelve pieces from the twenty-eight that make up Musica callada […]
2022-07-14 08:00:17
Interior life: Malcolm Martineau and friends in the complete songs of Henri Duparc
The Complete Songs of Duparc: Sarah Connolly, Nicky Spence, Huw Montague Rendall, William Thomas, Malcolm Martineau; Signum ClassicsReviewed 13 July 2022 (★★★★★)Henri Duparc's 16 surviving songs in performances which bring out the sense of the composer's interior life, as well as combining profoundly expressive singing with Martineau's supportive and wide-ranging piano In August last year (2021) I chatted to pianist Malcolm Martineau after his completion of his complete Faure songs project for Signum Classics [see my interview, 'Don't be scared of song'], and he is now back with the complete songs of Henri Duparc. Like the Faure, and several of his other projects, Martineau has done the recording with a group of singers, as he explained in the interview 'he wanted to evoke the atmosphere of the first performances of these songs as music-making amongst friends'.So on Signum Classics we have The Complete Songs of Duparc with Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Huw Montague […]
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