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2017-01-11 16:14:00
Lively, idiomatic performances of Rodrigo’s Chamber Music with Violin on a new release from Naxos
[…] received the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award and was named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Joaquín Rodrigo and his wife Victoria are buried in the cemetery at Aranjuez. Naxos www.naxos.com have already issued a large number of recordings of Rodrigo’s music in their Spanish Classics series. Now comes a new release featuring the composer’s Chamber Music with Violin performed by violinist Eva León www.evaLeón.com , pianist Olga Vinokur www.olgaVinokur.com and guitarist Virginia Luque www.virginialuque.com 8.572648 Sonata pimpante for violin and piano (1965) was written for the composer’s son-in-law Agustin León Ara and was premiered in Brussels in 1966. In three movements it opens with a sparkling Allegro, full of spirited rhythmic bounce before the piano leads into a slower melody with an Iberian flavour. Eva León and Olga Vinokur weave some lovely moments before the music picks […]
2017-01-11 16:14:00
Lively, idiomatic performances of Rodrigo’s Chamber Music with Violin on a new release from Naxos
[…] received the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award and was named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Joaquín Rodrigo and his wife Victoria are buried in the cemetery at Aranjuez. Naxos www.naxos.com have already issued a large number of recordings of Rodrigo’s music in their Spanish Classics series. Now comes a new release featuring the composer’s Chamber Music with Violin performed by violinist Eva León www.evaLeón.com , pianist Olga Vinokur www.olgaVinokur.com and guitarist Virginia Luque www.virginialuque.com 8.572648 Sonata pimpante for violin and piano (1965) was written for the composer’s son-in-law Agustin León Ara and was premiered in Brussels in 1966. In three movements it opens with a sparkling Allegro, full of spirited rhythmic bounce before the piano leads into a slower melody with an Iberian flavour. Eva León and Olga Vinokur weave some lovely moments before the music picks […]
2016-10-10 20:28:09
Ms. Vinokur was a featured artist in the London Chamber Music Society, EuroArts Festival in Prague, Prague Chamber Music Society, Young Artist Festival in Russia, Woodstock Mozart Festival in USA, Israeli “Music in Galilee” Radio Music Festival, Rolfs ...
2016-02-23 15:00:54
Beyond the forest
[…] small band of eight from one keyboard and also occasionally played a baroque guitar and assorted percussion instruments. Though they can’t have previously performed much of this style of music, Juilliard’s student singers generally displayed a gratifyingly high degree of competence in tackling the challenging recitative. There were no coloratura fireworks to contend with but difficult melismatic passages sometimes threatened to go off the rails. Most everyone sang idiomatically while they were simultaneously coping with Vinokur’s intensely physical direction which was refreshingly restrained given the work’s non-stop racy hijinks. The small black-box space in the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater featured a versatile, marvelously painted landscape backdrop by Charlap Hyman & Herrero dotted with doors and a few movable screens. The vigorous performers darted, rolled, swooned and raged in and out of this unit set clad in Austin Scarlett’s chic, snazzy costumes, which revealed a lot of skin, particularly the […]