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German composer, pianist and conductor (1873-1916)
- organ, piano, pipe organ
- classical music
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- composer, conductor, pianist, musicologist, university teacher, organist, music teacher
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2024-02-16 15:10:00
Batiashvili/BPO/Petrenko - Brahms, Szymanowski, and Strauss, 15 February 2024
[…] opening were therefore all the more valuable by way of contrast. The composer’s antiromanticism was here strongly to the fore, as it was when the music, more strongly than I can recall, presaged the operatic Strauss of a decade or more hence: Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne, even Intermezzo—which, in terms of subject matter, makes sense. Darker passages proved as ambiguous as the music at its more playful; the Mendelssohn quotation might almost have been filtered by Reger, save that it would surely have been the other way around. The sheer strangeness of Strauss’s tonal journey registered, though ultimately I am not sure I followed it, nor the work’s form (as opposed to mere structure) more generally. The ‘finale’ at times sounded intriguingly close to the enigmatic exuberance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, written at more or less the same time, yet an element of failing, as it were, to conclude here seemed […]
2024-01-07 00:00:00
JS Bach, Arranged by Max Reger
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Arranged by Max Reger: Suites, AriaJean-Claude Gérard - fluteStuttgart Chamber OrchestraDennis Russell Davies - directionRecorded February 1999Label: MDG 321 0940-2Download 1fichier pixel workupload
2024-01-06 00:00:00
Mit Feuer und Leidenschaft
Mit Feuer & LeidenschaftWorks of Von Weber, Reger,Lutoslawski and PoulencSebastian Theile - clarinetNicholas Rimmer - pianoRecorded July 2009Label: Thorofon CTH 2568Download 1fichier pixel workupload
2024-01-04 04:30:00
Igor Levit: Fantasia (CD Review)
by Karl NehringBach, J S: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String') (arr. for piano by A. Siloti); Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903; Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S178; Der Doppelganger (No. 12 from Schwanengesang, S560, after Schubert); Berg: Klavierstück in B minor; Piano Sonata, Op. 1; Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica; Nuit de Noël. Igor Levit, piano. Sony Classical 19658811642Russian-German pianist Igor Levit (b. 1987) seems never to do things in a small way. When the pandemic shut things down back in 2020, for example, he began posting a series of videos on Twitter that featured his playing of a variety of works for piano. His recordings have typically been multi-disc releases with some sort of unifying theme. We have reviewed several of those recordings in the past, starting with Encounter, a two-CD set that saw Levit playing music by Busoni (his arrangements of works by Bach and Brahms), Reger, and […]
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