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2022-06-20 13:43:38
Mieczysław Horszowski, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: June 20, 2022. A Horszowski encounter. Langhe is an exceptionally beautiful part of Italy, a stretch of hilly land south of Turin famous for its Barolo and Barbaresco wines and white truffles. It’s dotted with hilltop villages and castles and reminds one of much more popular (and crowded) Tuscany. The area around the village of Barolo is particularly pretty, with 12th-century castles facing each other across the vineyard-covered valleys. Monforte d'Alba is about two and a half miles from Barolo as the crow flies and twice as much to drive (which is a pleasure to do, so delightful are the ever-changing vistas), it has the requisite castle and a church at the top of the hill. It also has an unusual Roman-style open theater next to it, pictured here. What is completely unexpected, though, is to see the name of the pianist Mieczysław Horszowski: it’s […]
2021-02-15 15:28:24
Pianists_February-2021
This Week in Classical Music: February 15, 2021. Pianists. Several pianists of note were born this week and several more just a couple of days earlier. Some of them left us a rich audio record of their art so we can judge their talent for ourselves, but of the ones who were born in the earlier era we know mostly from the effusive descriptions by their contemporaries. Leopold Godowsky and Ignaz Friedman, both Polish Jews, were born on the same day, February 13th, Godowsky in 1870, Friedman in 1882. Godowsky is better remembered these days, partly because of his compositions (especially the piano arrangements), but also because of his pupils, one of whom, Heinrich Neuhaus, continued the legacy through his own numerous pupils, Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels among them. Godowsky’s last acoustic recording was made in 1928, and many of the earlier ones were made on a piano roll, […]
2020-04-13 13:31:49
Easter 2020
This Week in Classical Music: April 13, 2020. Easter and three pianists. Yesterday was Easter Sunday, the beginning of the Easter Season, and we wish everybody a happy Easter. Around this time we usually play Bach’s music: he wrote some of his greatest pieces for this occasion, such as two complete Passions, the St. John and St. Matthew (his St. Mark’s Passion is lost; it’s assumed by musicologists that it was mostly a “parody,” meaning that Bach recycled some of his previously written music. The St. Luke Passion, previously attributed to Bach, is almost certainly not his own). Bach’s friend Georg Philipp Telemann also wrote a number of Passion Oratorios. They are not well known and aren’t performed as often as Bach’s. While we realize that they are not on the same plane, we find their music much worthy of your attention. Here’s the first section of Telemann’s oratorio Das […]
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