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It should be essential repertoire: former BBC New Generation Artist trumpeter Simon Höfele chats about the 20th-century works for trumpet and piano on his new disc on Berlin Classics
[…] (1881-1955) - LegendePaul Hindemith (1895-1963) - Sonate fur Trompete in B und KlavierJean Francaix (1912-1997) - Sonatine pour trompetteAlexander Arutjunjan (1920-2012) - Aria et Scherzo pour trompette et pianoSimon Höfele (trumpet)Elisabeth Brauß (piano)BERLIN CLASSICS 0301314BC Standards: Hummel, Haydn, Copland, Arutjunjan - Simon Höfele, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Duncan Ward - BERLIN CLASSICS Mysteries: Ligeti, Jolivet, Toshio Howokawa, Iain Hamilton, Takemitsu, HK Gruber - Simon Höfele, Eriko Takezawa (piano), Kai Strobel (percussion) - GENUIN CLASSICS Concertino: Hartmann, Pintscher, Neuwith, Hindemith, Denner - Simon Höfele Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog Scottish piano music: Christopher Guild continues his explorations with disc devoted to Francis George Scott and to Ronald Stevenson's transcriptions - record review Berlin im […]
2020-08-02 11:25:00
Wagner and Ludwig II
[…] and fearful of dismissal, ministers presented a medical report signed by four psychiatrists, none of whom had ever met Ludwig, declaring him unfit to rule – for life. Maximilian’s brother, Leopold, was declared Regent; Ludwig was transported to Schloss Berg. The cause of his tragic drowning in adjacent Lake Starnberg remains unclear: suicide, accidental death through escape, or murder? Detta Petzet and Michael Petzet, Die Richard Wagner-Bühne Königs Ludwig II. (Munich: Prestel, 1970). Otto Strobel (ed.), König Ludwig II. und Richard Wagner. Briefwechsel. Mit vielen anderen Urkunden, 5 vols (Karlsruhe: Braun, 1936-9).
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2020-03-29 17:05:00
Influential composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki dies aged 86 — Obituary
[…] but also in those of Iannis Xenakis and György Ligeti. Part of the broader agenda here was a concern to find a way forward that addressed the problems of musical structure and comprehensibility raised by the so-called total serialism of such composers as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and that yet retained a radical attitude to musical materials.West Germany, in particular, opened its doors to Penderecki in the 60s: the publisher Hermann Moeck and Heinrich Strobel – a radio producer who also ran the Donaueschingen Music Days – were soon prominent champions. It was not long before Penderecki was showered with awards, both in that country and elsewhere.One of the first of these, a Unesco prize, went to his most famous early composition before the St Luke Passion, his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960). Written for 52 strings and originally known as 8'37" (the work's length), Threnody is […]
2019-11-11 19:26:00
The November 2019 issue (vol.13, no.3) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles: • ‘Knappertsbusch in Bayreuth’ by Hans Rudolf Vaget • ‘In Wagner’s Eyes: Casting Light on a Disputed Portrait‘ by Michael Trimble, Dale C. Hesdorffer, Robert Letellier and Gordon Plant •’Ernest Newman in ‘’Naziland‘’: In Search of Otto Strobel‘
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