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Russian Jewish composer and teacher
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2023-08-31 06:22:00
Exploring Rachmaninoff's songs alongside those of his contemporaries: Iain Burnside and friends at Wigmore Hall
Sergey RachmaninoffRachmaninoff wrote songs from his years at the Moscow Conservatory right through to 1916. There are over 80 songs (románsy in Russian) setting Russian romantic writers and poets. Intimately connected to the literature of the Russia that he left behind in 1917, the song genre was one to which Rachmaninoff never returned during his exile.Running from September 2023 until June next year is a Rachmaninoff Song Series at Wigmore Hall, four concerts curated by pianist Iain Burnside in partnership with Philip Bullock, professor of Russian literature and music at Oxford. The first concert, on 28 September 2023, features soprano Anush Hovhannisyan and bass Jasurbek Khaydarov with Iain Burnside in a programme of songs by Rachmaninoff alongside those of his contemporaries, Nikolay Myaskosvksy (1881-1950), Anatoly Alexandrov (1888-1982), Mikhail Gnesin (1883-1957), Yuliya Veysberg (1880-1942) and Maximilian Steinberg (1883-1946).The idea behind the series is to intertwine Rachmaninoff romances with those of his contemporaries, many now forgotten, ‘cancelled’ after […]
2022-07-11 11:03:11
Alla Pavlova: Elegy for Piano and String Orchestra Context Ukrainian composer Alla Pavlova has studied at the Ippolitov-Ivanov Music Institute and the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow. Pavlova has resided in Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, and now the USA. She has composed a number of large-scale works for the orchestra […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2021-10-11 13:43:34
Evgeny Kissin at 50
This Week in Classical Music: October 11, 2021. Evgeny Kissin. Evgeny Kissin, one of the greatest pianists of his generation, turned 50 yesterday. Kissin has been dazzling the public for almost 38 years, since the time when, at the age of 12, he gave a performance at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (performing at the Great Hall is the Russian equivalent of performing at the Stern Auditorium of the Carnegie Hall: an honor and acknowledgement of the performer’s talent). Kissin was born in Moscow on October 10th of 1971. At the age of six he went to the Gnessin music school, where his teacher was Anna Cantor. Cantor, who died on July 27th of this year, remained his only teacher. Kissin and Cantor were uniquely close; she traveled with him and lived her last years in his home in Prague. Recognized as a child prodigy in the Soviet […]
2021-07-30 21:08:54
The highly regarded piano pedagogue taught at the Gnessin Music School in Moscow, Russia. "Soon after I began my studies with her, Anna Pavlovna became for me much more than just a teacher: during all these years she has been a real friend, like a family member," Kissin wrote. "She became very close to […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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