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In May 1996, the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov was informed that his wife, the musicologist Larissa Bondarenko, had died suddenly and unexpectedly in a hospital in Kyiv. The shock silenced him for several months. After a long while he began writing a Requiem in her memory, jumbling the traditional Catholic order of movements familiar from [...]
2020-04-06 11:12:00
Great composers do not need fifteen minutes of Twitter fame
[…] wrongly, interpreted as a measure if merit. So in recent years I have watched despondently as my wish has come true, and the second-rate has been elevated above its station in the name of equality.But, mark my word, there is nothing second rate about Valentin Silvestrov. In fact he is arguably the composer for our conflicted time. His haunting Requiem for Larissa, written following the sudden death of his wife, musicologist and literary scholar Larissa Bondarenko in 1996, could also serve as a requiem for the global victims of the terrible COVID-19 pandemic. But Silvestrov's music has a contemporary relevance beyond the current Kali Yuga. Yesterday's classical audiences were sonically literate in the upper and middle registers. But today's coveted new audience is bass literate, and Silvestrov's musical language has a contemporary relevance because it leverages the lower registers of the symphony orchestra with judicious enhancement from a synthesizer. The […]
2020-01-30 09:00:00
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro - Currentzis - Kleiber - Gardiner
Figaro - Christian Van Horn Susanna - Fanie Antonelou Count Almaviva - Andrei Bondarenko Countess Almaviva - Simone Kermes Cherubino - Mary-Ellen Nesi Marcellina - Maria Forsström Bartolo - Nikolai Loskutkin Don Basilio - Krystian Adam Don Curzio - James Elliott Antonio - Garry Agadzhanian Teodor Currentzis MusicAeterna (The Chorus and Orchestra of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre) Sony 2012 Digital download, flac HD, cover Teodor Currentzis is the artistic director of the opera house in Perm, on the edge of Siberia. As reported in the January Gramophone, he is recording all three of the Mozart/da Ponte operas: Così fan tutte will appear next autumn, Don Giovanni a year later. The publicity material accompanying the new Figaro talks up […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-10-17 11:12:00
Edvard Grieg: Piano concerto in A minor – Leif Ove Andsnes, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (4K Ultra High Definition)
[…] Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSB) in Asia. He rejoined the RSB for Mozart, whose concertos were also the vehicle for his returns to the Munich Philharmonic and Budapest Festival Orchestra. Besides joining Goerne for Schubert lieder in Paris, Essen, and Barcelona, Andsnes debuted a solo program of Schumann, Bartók and Janáček in recitals in Paris, Oslo, and Frankfurt. His summer engagements included a residency at his own Rosendal festival in Norway, where guest artists included Andrei Bondarenko, Marc-André Hamelin, Igor Levit, Anthony McGill, Tabea Zimmermann, and the Quatuor Danel.Perhaps the Norwegian pianist's most ambitious achievement to date is "The Beethoven Journey", his epic four-season focus on the master composer's music for piano and orchestra, which took him to 108 cities in 27 countries for more than 230 live performances. He led the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard in complete Beethoven concerto cycles at high-profile residencies in Bonn, Hamburg, Lucerne, Vienna, […]
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