Viktor Parma News
Slovene composer (1858-1924)
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Viktor Parma)
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Austria-Hungary
- composer
Last update
2024-04-25
Refresh
2022-11-24 16:37:00
[…] Lisztian model of the paraphrase. Gerstein captured extremely well the piece’s ruminative quality: the composer, post-opera, extemporising on its themes. It was a turbulent, even violent necromancy we heard in the Toccata, its ‘advanced’ language no bar to high Lisztian grandiloquence. One gained an impression of multiple prisms, through music one could never quite pin down. The music from—or ‘to’?—Doktor Faust(related to the strange character, if one may call her that, of the Duchess of Parma) sounded as darkly elegiac and as dangerously sulphuric as I can recall. Brighter primary colours were to be heard from the off in Liszt himself. The opening Prelude seemed to strip away a gauze curtain we had not realised was there. Its virtuosic thrills provided quite the curtain-raiser. ‘Paysage’ offered seductive contrast, phrases beautifully leaned into. A Chopinesque—especially in the cadenzas—‘Mazeppa’ well illustrated Gerstein’s fine command of Lisztian rhetoric: foreign to our more cynical […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2022-11-02 23:17:05
From Parma Recordings: Leonard Bernstein’s Music for String... The post New on record: A Leonard Bernstein string quartet appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-06-11 04:41:00
Classical Music News of the Week, June 11, 2022
Duo Piano Fest Returns In PersonThe Music Institute of Chicago presents the 34th season of its Chicago Duo Piano Festival featuring four public events July 8–17, 2022 at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston. In addition, pianists age eight and older will participate in the education program of the 10-day festival, which includes coachings, lectures, master classes, and recitals, directed by Festival Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem and Music Institute piano faculty Katherine Lee.The schedule of events taking place at Nichols Concert Hall follows:Friday, July 8 at 7:30 p.m.Gala Opening Concert – Claire Aebersold and Ralph NeiweemTuesday, July 12 at 7:30 p.m.Faculty Extravaganza IFriday, July 15 at 7:30 p.m.Faculty Extravaganza IISunday, July 16 at 10 a.m.Master classThe Chicago Duo Piano Festival takes place July 8–17, 2022, with four public events at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Illinois. Admission to all events is free. […]
2022-01-29 00:28:53
Kevin Scott writes: Good morning, all! I hope everyone has had a wonderful start to the new year and that we're looking forward to a lot of new things that will happen in the coming months ahead, the news on this end is off to a great beginning as well. Here are my announcements of upcoming performances and events for this year (thus far): This past Saturday (22 January), The Lowell Chamber Orchestra under the direction of its founder Orlando Cela officially recorded my second little symphony for seven players in Lowell, Massachusetts for an upcoming recording on Parma Records that is comprised of five of Darius Milhaud's petite […]
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): P...