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2016-09-27 19:49:16
London orchestra plays to near-empty Munich hall
It appears the organisers of a Bartok for Europe series forgot to promote the concerts. This is the audience that greeted the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Jurowski and soloist Valery Afanassiev, yesterday (Monday) evening. Our correspondent in the hall thought the concert was terrific, albeit somewhat private. The concert management, in a private communication, blamed the October beer festival for the hall being ‘half-empty’. right-click on image to enlarge it in new tab
2016-02-27 13:00:01
Saturday, February 27, 2016 You can listen to the Classical Music Almanac Podcast Daily here. Birthdays Hubert Parry In 1848 Hubert Parry was born in Bourneouth. Parry’s first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song “Jerusalem”, the coronation anthem “I was glad”, the choral and orchestral ode Blest Pair of Sirens, and the hymn tune “Repton”, which sets the words “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”. His orchestral works include five symphonies and a set of Symphonic Variations. After early attempts to work in insurance, at his father’s behest, Parry was taken up by George Grove, first as a contributor to Grove’s massive Dictionary of Music and Musicians in the 1870s and 80s, and then in 1883 as professor of composition and musical history at the Royal College of Music, of which Grove was the first head. In 1895 […]
2016-02-08 10:08:46
Mahler, Brel, Brahms and Woody Allen – the violinist reveals the music and musicians that inspire himHow do you mostly listen to music? Most of the time in my head! And sometimes at home, especially on vinyl records. I love the vinyl sound. The revival in recent years is really exciting.What was the first ever record or CD you bought? My first ever CD was Gidon Kremer and Valery Afanassiev playing the three Brahms violin sonatas and the Busoni sonata. What an inspiring record. Continue reading...
2015-06-16 12:49:45
STRAUSS The Virtuoso Johann Strauss: Paraphrases and Arrangements of Favourite Strauss Melodies by Rosenthal, Tausky, Godowsky and Schulz-Evler LABE (piano) (Dorian Discovery DIS 80102) TT: 73.31 (DDD) Full price * * (*) Godowsky was the one who used to play two Chopin études simultaneously, just to make them sound harder. A difficult feat; and one would have hoped it was impossible. The transcriptions here share the same tigerish bravura, and if you recall the old cartoon of Liszt, in a monsoon of fingers stripping the keys off a piano, you might be able to appreciate the wars of calculated attrition that virtuosi used to embark on with their fists. This is what the pianism of a lost age was all about. When Moriz Rosenthal quipped that Schnabel failed his Austrian Army medical because he had no fingers, he referred not to the fumblings of later years but to the young […]
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