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Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (1837-1910)
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Roger Woodward - A Concerto Collection
Roger Woodward - piano. A Concerto Collection. Vol.I1.01. - 1.03. Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto in D minor for Keyboard and Strings, BWV,1052 [22'11]with Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Aadland [2012 live]1.04. - 1.06. Joseph Haydn - Concerto for Violin and Organ in F major, Hob.XVIII:6 * [19'43]Roger Woodward- chamber organ and Wanda Wilkomirska- violin, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Niklaus Wyss [1982 live]2.07. - 2.09. Frederic Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, op.11 [40'31]with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert [1982]3.10. - 3.12. Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op.58 [33'36]with Queensland Theatre Orchestra, George Tintner [1982 live]3.13. - 3.15. Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op.37 [34'42]with West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Albert Rosen [1982 live]4.16. - 4.18. Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, op.26 [28'25]4.19. - 4.21. Alexander Scriabin - Piano Concerto in F-sharp […]
2021-02-22 04:49:00
Al Andalus (CD review)
Musique Arabo-Andalouse. Gregorio Paniagua, Atrium Musicae Madrid. Harmonia Mundi HMM 93389.By John J. Puccio First, a bit of history: Al-Andalus is the name of the area of the former Islamic states in Iberia, a domain that at one time occupied most of the Spanish and Portuguese peninsula and a part of southern France and beyond. Arab or Berber rulers controlled these areas at various times between 711 and 1492, although national boundaries changed constantly as conflicts with neighboring Christian countries continued.During the Middle Ages, Al-Andalus became, as the CD booklet notes explain, “a centre of culture and of influence on the rest of mediaeval Europe. At that period Europe had not yet attained a level of civilization comparable with the splendour and extreme sophistication enjoyed by the inhabitants of Southern Spain. Music flourished with particular vigour in Al Andalus, protected by the patronage of the emirs, princes and caliphs, studied […]
2021-01-20 13:18:01
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Serbian Fantasy Context Composed and premiered in 1867, Nikolai Rimsly-Korsakov’s Serbian Fantasy was pursued after the idea came from peer, Mily Balakirev. Balakirev had requested a concert piece of pan-Slavonic music for a themed concert he had planned in 1867. Rimsky-Korsakov was asked to write this work late […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2021-01-04 15:48:17
Week One, 2021
This Week in Classical Music: January 3, 2021. Week One. Happy New Year again! Hard to imagine that we’re already in 2021 and that 1/5th of the century is behind us… The first week of the music calendar is always full: first, several very interesting composers, including three Russians: Mily Balakirev of the Mighty Five fame, Nikolai Medtner, whose piano music gained in popularity lately and the ever popular Alexander Scriabin; our personal favorite, the French composer Francis Poulenc; Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, the Italian who lived a tragically short life but left us a tremendous Stabat Mater, and the German Romantic Max Bruch. One of Bruch’s most popular pieces was the Kol Nidrei, for cello and orchestra, which uses the setting of the eponymous Jewish prayer for the Yom Kippur service. Even though Bruch had not a drop of Jewish blood in him, the Nazis prohibited his music on the […]
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