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2023-01-18 02:12:00
New York Philharmonic. Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor; Nemanja Radulovic, violin. January 12, 2023.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Tier 1 Parterre. (Seat EE201, $59.)ProgramCatamorphosis (2021) by Anna Thorvaldsdottir (b. 1977).Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935) by Prokofiev (1891-1953).La Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) (1911-13) by Stravinsky (1882-1971).Yes, these two weeks constituted an audition for Rouvali as the next New York Philharmonic music director. Indeed if one does a search on the subject, one finds many other contenders, including Dudamel and Malkki. And (unfortunately), the Parterre seats aren't that good when it comes to a solo violin either.If those were my only take-aways from the two concerts I attended, that would be pathetic. The highlight of the evening was actually Prokofiev's second violin concerto.This is a piece I have known since I was a teenager, and over the years I have heard it a few times (not often programmed), and have enjoyed every single performance. The same […]
2022-04-07 05:18:00
Recent Releases, No. 27 (CD reviews)
By Karl W. NehringFlorence Price: Symphony No. 3 in C minor; The Mississippi River; Ethiopia’s Shadow in America. John Jeter, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Radio Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.559879. Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3. Yannick Nézet-Séiguin, The Philadelphia Orchestra. Deutsche Grammophon B0034879-02.The American composer Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. As a child in the South, she was rejected by white teachers, so she received her first musical training from her mother. As the liner notes of the DG release explain, “because advanced training was largely unavailable to women of color in the South, 16-year-old Price was enrolled in the New England Conservatory in Boston, majoring in organ and piano performance (while following her mother’s advice to present herself as being of Mexican descent). [As an aside, watching the performance of some of our white GOP Senators during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court […]
2022-02-12 09:11:28
György Cziffra: Pianist János Balázs on celebrating the great Hungarian's centenary & continuing his artistic legacy
George Cziffra 2021 was the centenary of the Hungarian pianist and composer György Cziffra, and there have been world-wide celebrations under the auspices of the György Cziffra Festival. The modern day Hungarian pianist János Balázs, who founded the festival, is determined to keep Cziffra's memory alive and celebrate Cziffra's art, both in organising the festival and in his own concerts and recordings. János Balázs (Photo Emmer Laszlo0 Born in Budapest in 1921, Cziffra's father was a cabaret artist who had lived in Paris prior to the First World War. Cziffra studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest but was conscripted during the Second World War and ended up a prisoner of war in Russia. After the war he played in bars and clubs in Budapest, as well as touring Europe with his jazz band. After trying to escape communist Hungary in 1950, Cziffra was imprisoned but […]
2022-02-03 14:00:01
For some reason, my sense is that this beautiful composition is less frequently performed these days. I really see no reason for this… The Symphonie espagnole is a symphony only in name. The mood of the work is established at the start with the brief orchestral introduction, followed by the entry of the soloist and the characteristic rhythms of the principal theme. The second movement, with its contrasting central section, is followed by a typically Spanish Intermezzo and a lyrically moving slower movement that grows in intensity with its idiomatically Spanish turns of phrase. The work ends with a final
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