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German-born Hungarian composer, conductor and teacher
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Faces of classical music
2018-12-13 19:45:00
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite | Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, & Manfred Overture | Johann Strauss Jr.: Die Fledermaus Overture – Jean-Guihen Queyras, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider – Saturday, December 15, 2018, 08:00 PM EST (GMT-5) – Livestream
[…] Johannes Brahms burst into the Schumann household at Düsseldorf, and it is really Brahms – who never wrote a cello concerto – who provides the point of contact for the four composers on this programme. It was in Düsseldorf that Brahms met Dietrich, and they became lifelong friends: almost immediately Schumann, Dietrich and Brahms collaborated in composing a violin sonata for the violinist Joseph Joachim. Also, from the 1850s Brahms was on friendly terms with Volkmann, whose music – including his Cello Concerto – he admired. And Gernsheim, of a slightly younger generation, also became a friend of Brahms, a staunch advocate of his works and an ardent "Brahmsian" in his own musical idiom.Source: Calum MacDonald, 2007 (hyperion-records.co.uk)✻Robert Schumann: Manfred Overture, Op.115Schumann was possessed of a keen literary mind. His studies at the Leipzig and Heidelberg Universities and his own career as a writer, including an early attempt at a […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-12-10 10:51:00
“Debussy: one of the most original of moderns”, 1908, & “French composer Claude Debussy dies”, 1918 – Two articles from the Guardian archive
[…] the composer seems to have failed. Altogether it most be said that the earlier work proved much more satisfying as music, and made far more satisfying as music, and made far more of an appeal after its own kind.The soloist at the interesting concert was the magnificent cellist, Professor Hugo Becker, who for sheer virtuosity is incomparable, while his tone is deliciously full and rich. He played a concerto – really a concert-piece – by Volkmann, a composer who was prolific and tasteful, but scarcely inspired. It was an effective display piece, and the accomplished soloist presented it in the best possible way, but It of served to emphasise the fact that there is very little really interesting music written for the ‘cello.The concert began with the virile "Egmont" overture and ended with the well worn, but still wonderful, "Unfinished" Symphony of Schubert. Both these were directed by Mr Henry […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-05-22 16:45:00
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor (Version for cello and string orchestra) – Nicolas Altstaedt, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra (HD 1080p)
[…] Johannes Brahms burst into the Schumann household at Düsseldorf, and it is really Brahms – who never wrote a cello concerto – who provides the point of contact for the four composers on this programme. It was in Düsseldorf that Brahms met Dietrich, and they became lifelong friends: almost immediately Schumann, Dietrich and Brahms collaborated in composing a violin sonata for the violinist Joseph Joachim. Also, from the 1850s Brahms was on friendly terms with Volkmann, whose music – including his Cello Concerto – he admired. And Gernsheim, of a slightly younger generation, also became a friend of Brahms, a staunch advocate of his works and an ardent "Brahmsian" in his own musical idiom.Source: Calum MacDonald, 2007 (hyperion-records.co.uk)Robert Schumann (1810-1856)♪ Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129 (Version for cello and string orchestra) (1850)i. Nicht zu schnellii. Langsamiii. Sehr lebhaftNicolas Altstaedt, celloConcertgebouw Chamber OrchestraConductor: Nicolas AltstaedtConcertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 29, 2016(HD 1080p) Renowned worldwide […]
2018-02-25 22:00:00
Recent updates to previously posted music
[…] set Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ by C. Davis in London (1976) (a rip by Enrico B.)12/19/16 Wintery Romantics +1CD Tchaikovsky's 'Pathétique' Symphony by Giuseppe Sinopoli in London (1989)12/16/16 Summer Nights #11 +1CD Gesualdo's Tenebrae responsories by the BBC Singers & Bo Holten (2004)12/16/16 Summer Nights #10 +1CD set Byrd and Taverner: Masses, by David Willcocks in Cambridge (1963)12/12/16 Schubert #1 +1CD Sonata D.894 & Impromptus D.899 by Daniel Levy in London (1997)12/11/16 Summer Nights #9 +1CD Volkmann's Cello Concerto & Serenades by H. Karni & M. Pommer (Hamburg 1997)12/9/16 Mozart: Nachtmusik Added missing track #9 (+New cue file and log) 12/5/16 Stravinsky #2 +1DVD Petrushka + Blacher's Paganini Variations by Zubin Mehta in Florence 199512/5/16 Opera Favourites #3 +1DVD Verdi: 4 Pezzi Sacri by Claudio Abbado in Stockholm 1998 (+ Debussy's Nocturnes)12/3/16 Second Viennese School Ess.ls #4 +1CD Schoenberg's Pelleas + Variations Op. 31 by Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv12/3/16 In […]
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