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Czech conductor, music educator, composer and choirmaster
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2015-10-30 14:04:02
In 1733 George Frideric Handel’s opera “Semiramide” was premiered in London at the King’s Theater in the Haymarket (Gregorian date: Nov. 10). Peter Warlock In 1894 Peter Warlock was born in London. He was born Philip Hesetine, but the Warlock name, which reflects his interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle. As a schoolboy at Eton College, Heseltine met the British composer Frederick Delius, with whom he formed a close friendship. After a failed student career in Oxford and London, Heseltine turned to musical journalism, while developing interests in folk-song and Elizabethan music. His first serious compositions date from around 1915. Following a period of drift and inactivity, a positive and lasting influence on his work arose […]
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getClassical (Ilona Oltuski)
2014-11-07 14:14:04
Quintessentially Russian: Philippe Quint’s new Tchaikovsky/Arensky recording
This September, Avanticlassic released yet another account of Tchaikovsky’s much performed Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35, revealing the stylistic versatility and technical brilliance of Russian/American violinist Philippe Quint. In this recording, Quint, whose “lyricism, energy and devotion,” was lauded by the LA Times, pairs Tchaikovsky’s “war-horse” of the violin-repertoire, with Anton Stephanovich Arensky’s String Quartet No.2 in A minor, coincidentally his Op.35 as well. This line up makes for Quint’s first all-Russian recording, and there is something of a full circle coming about within this youthful thirty-something violinist’s successful career, which has led him from his native Leningrad to Moscow’s Central Music School for Gifted Children, and then to an illustrious mentorship at Juilliard when he was just 17. Quint’s earlier discography, which includes Grammy-nominated recordings of Bernstein’s Serenade and violin concertos by American composers William Schuman, a former Juilliard president and Erich Korngold, as well as Ned Rorem, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2012-02-20 15:07:58
As in old days: Vladimir Spivakov, from Moscow
Vladimir Spivakov from file (Christian Steiner photo) Privileged to grow up near the Big Apple, I was star struck in the 1950’s by the great string players with both Jewish and Slavic roots who packed Carnegie Hall: Heifetz (always first), Menuhin, Milstein, Morini, Piatigorsky, Shumsky, Spivakovsky, Stern, Szeryng, Szigeti, to name a few. And in that decade, visits by David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan brought enormous excitement, as the Iron Curtain parted just enough to let them slip through and take the Western world by storm. But then there was a skip of a generation, with Gidon Kremer one of few renowned players, and several pedagogues carrying the tradition forward so that today, young Russians are prominent again, with Gringolts, Kaler, Repin and Vengerov as brilliant ambassadors. Vladimir Spivakov, a student of Oistrakh also bridges those generations. He is highly prominent in Moscow, but known better in this country […]
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