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American composer (1926–1987)
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2024-01-13 03:01:35
Morton Feldman, born on January 12 1926, in New York, N.Y., U.S.A., was an avant-garde composer. He
2024-01-04 04:30:00
Igor Levit: Fantasia (CD Review)
[…] 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 Morton Feldman (you can read that review here). Later in 2021, we reviewed his album titled On DSCH, another two-CD set that includes the 24 Preludes and Fuguesby Shostakovich plus the fascinating Passacaglia on DSCH by the late Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015) (that review can be found here). Then late in 2022 we reviewed another two-CD recording by Levit, this one titled Tristan, which as you might expect from the title contained some music by Wagner along with some Liszt, Henze, and […]
2023-11-12 23:25:17
SCRUTINY | Feldman’s Rothko Chapel Stands The Test Of Time At Soundstreams
Soundstreams launches season with venerable Rothko Chapel and mark, a new commission by Cecilia Livingston.
2023-10-25 08:26:00
Spring/Summer 2024 at the Southbank Centre: Rothko Chapel, DSCH, Winterreise staged, the RFH Organ at 70, Voices from the East and more
DSCH - Pekka Kuusisto, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (Photo: Magnus Skrede)The Southbank Centre has announced its classical music plans for next Spring and Summer. Booking opens on Friday 27 October at 10am for Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles. General booking begins on Monday 30 October at 10am.The artists on the Southbank Centre's residency programmes are all busy. Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja continues her residency with her absurdist Nonsense music-theatre production, works by Cage, Ligeti, Brecht and Kopatchinskaja, whilst Manchester Collective collaborate with Scottish pianist Fergus McCreadie culminating in a late-night cèilidh. And the collective return with Morton Feldman’s sonic meditation Rothko Chapel alongside new pieces by Katherine Balch, Edmund Finnis, Isabella Summers and Isobel Waller-Bridge inspired by Rothko's artworks. And the Manchester Collective will be contributing to the showcase concert for second instalment of the Southbank Centre and Royal Academy of Music’s artist development scheme, Future Artists.Organist James McVinnie joins as a Resident Artist and his first performance will be part of the Royal […]
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