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American violinist (1943-2017)
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Morton Feldman: Violin and Orchestra - Carolin Widmann & Isabelle Faust
[…] weaving of parts into a smoothly rippling whole". As a point of interest, Isabelle Faust also gave a performance with the BBC Symphony under Martyn Brabbins in London in January 2002 at the Barbican. That concert also included Coptic Light as well as Rothko Chapel. There appears to have been few other public performances of the fine work since its premiere in 1984 by Paul Zukofsky in Frankfurt - I have only seen seven listed including two more by Isabelle Faust and one by Carolin Widmann. Aficionados of bad reviewing may be dismayed to hear that David Hurwitz actually likes this atonal, sometimes even microtonal, work. Although he does incorrectly declare that the ECM disc is its premiere recording - so all is not lost. Download from MEGA.
2020-06-06 18:11:17
American violinist, conductor and pedagogue Paul Zukofsky died on this day in 2017 – aged 73. A graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Ivan Galamian, Mr Zukofsky was a former 1st prize winner at the Young Concert Artist International Auditions – and served a long term teaching position on faculty at the […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-05-19 07:16:45
Going out of their comfort zone: David Nebel and Kristjan Järvi in violin concertos by Philip Glass and Igor Stravinsky
[…] symphonies, a second violin concerto and three piano concertos. Glass dedicated the Violin Concerto to his father, saying "His favourite form was the violin concerto, and so I grew up listening to the Mendelssohn, the Paganini, the Brahms concertos. ... So when I decided to write a violin concerto, I wanted to write one that my father would have liked." So in this piece, Glass the Minimalist approaches the Romantic concerto. Violinist Paul Zukofsky, who was a friend and who premiered the piece, played a significant role in the work's genesis as did its first conductor Dennis Russell Davies, who would encourage Glass to write further large scale orchestral works. 1987 was a fascinating year for classical music, whilst in opera John Adams' Nixon in China and Judith Weir's A Night at the Chinese Opera were premiered, in the concert hall the premieres were all […]
2019-10-22 20:43:41
American violinist, conductor and pedagogue Paul Zukofsky was born on this day in 1943. A graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Ivan Galamian, Mr Zukofsky was a former 1st prize winner at the Young Concert Artist International Auditions – and served a long term teaching position on faculty at the University of […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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