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2018-06-15 13:34:16
Blockbuster Podcast 'S-Town' To Be Adapted Into Feature Film (Is This A Good Idea?)
The hit seven-episode audio documentary by the producers of Serial and This American Life will be adapted for the screen and directed by Tom McCarthy, who won two Oscars in 2015 for Spotlight, about the Boston Globe investigation into sexual abuse by Catholic priests. But will S-Town translate? Hannah Verdier considers the potential pitfalls and […]
2016-08-09 13:30:27
Dvorak’s Piano Quintet Op. 81
I listened to a DVD yesterday, and I was able to ‘overdose’ on wonderful music. The recording was the 20th anniversary celebration of the Verdier Festival. A huge number of musicians participated, including 91 year old pianist Menachem Pressler. Retired pianist Alfred Brendel was seen as a page turner for the performance of the Schumann Piano Quintet! For me the highlight of this recording was a performance of the Quintet for piano and strings Op. 81 by Antonin Dvorak. While the DVD Contains only the slow movement, it was totally rich in an unforgettable performance by 5 extraordinary musicians. The music was played by Menachem Pressler with the Ebene Quartet. I was unable to locate a video of the astounding slow movement, but here is another section of this work, as played by the Ebene Quatuor, with pianist Memachem Pressler:
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-11-13 00:41:52
The Circa Is Coming to Town Again
[…] discography includes the acclaimed Decca label release of the landmark Mozart Requiem recording, in the 1802 transcription by Peter Lichtenthal (about which a documentary film has also been made). The Arion label produced several volumes in the “French Music” collection (Bonnal, Ravel, Fauré, Witkowski, Lekeu) and the complete Shostakovich Quartets, among other works. The quartet’s mixed chamber music repertoire includes its highly regarded CD of the Brahms and Weber clarinet quintets with clarinetist Jean Francois Verdier and a highly acclaimed collaboration with the pianist François Chaplin in several Mozart piano concertos. In addition, their discography includes the complete works of Webern for string quartet (for Harmonia Mundi), which received the coveted « Choc » award of Le Monde de la Musique. The Debussy Quartet is based in Lyon, France. Its members are the founders of “Les Cordes en Ballade” a chamber music festival and an academy of chamber music in […]
2015-10-23 12:45:01
[…] the videos. For those of you who are into technical details, the organ has 29 ranks which together number 1919 pipes. The console has three manuals. You can see the full technical specifications by following this link (in French). And now for the videos: Hendrik Huyser, playing the Präludium by Hans Friedrich Micheelsen (1902 – 1977) Henri Barthes, playing the Offertoire “Vive le Roy des Parisiens” by Andre Raison (1640 – 1719) Bernard Verdier, playing the Plein-jeu de la suite du 2e ton by Louis-Nicolas Clerambault (1676 – 1749) Christopher Hainsworth, playing La Bataille de Waterloo by George Anderson (1739 – 1876) To my knowledge, two CDs are available with recordings of the organ in Saint-Chinian. One, by Marie-Helene Geispieler, is available on amazon.fr ; the other, by Bruno Fraisse and Henri Barthes, is available locally in Saint-Chinian.
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