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American conductor (1899-1990)
- United States of America
- conductor, composer, film score composer
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2023-10-30 17:47:00
Neuburger/Boulez Ensemble/Roth - Debussy and Manoury, 29 October 2023
Pierre Boulez Saal Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola, and harp Manoury: Passacaille pour Tokyo Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano Manoury: Grammaires du sonore Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano)Boulez EnsembleFrançois-Xavier Roth (conductor)Images: Jakob TillmannIntelligent and revealing programming is always a joy. François-Xavier Roth ranks highly among those conductors regularly offering it. When married to equally intelligent and revealing performances it becomes all the more a joy, such as in this concert from the Boulez Ensemble, founded by Daniel Barenboim to include members of the Staatskapelle Berlin and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Two ensemble pieces by Philippe Manoury were prefaced by two late Debussy sonatas, the formal implications of which were highly suggestive and felt to be such for the Manoury works. First, we heard Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola, and harp, an extraordinary work I do not think I have ever heard live before. The combination may be unusual, but surely is […]
2022-12-02 07:00:30
Stravinsky’s Danses Concertantes: Concert Music in Search of a Ballet
Igor Stravinsky’s Danses concertantes unfolds as an abstract ballet. Its quirky cast of instrumental “characters” become virtual “dancers” in a witty, neoclassical drama. The titles of its five movements evoke the sections of a ballet. Motion, elegance, and a joyful athleticism abound. Stravinsky had just emigrated to the United States and settled in West Hollywood when, in 1941, he received the commission from Werner Janssen for Danses concertantes. Janssen was an American conductor and ...
2022-07-16 05:07:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 16, 2022
[…] and Baba Israel’s Cannabis: A Viper Vaudeville from July 14 - 31, 2022 produced by HERE.The works that will be presented during the festival’s tenth anniversary now include those by Emma O’Halloran, Gelsey Bell, Du Yun, and Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR). The international works in this year’s festival include Marchita by Silvana Estrada, note to a friend by David Lang, commissioned by Japan Society (and co-produced by Japan Society and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan), and animated opera Undine by Stefanie Janssen & Michaël Brijs.For details, visit https://prototypefestival.org/--Andrew Ousley, Unison MediaLukas Foss Tribute with JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo PhilharmonicOn Monday, October 3, 2022 the multiple Grammy award-winning conductor, JoAnn Falletta, will conduct the Buffalo Philharmonic in their return to Carnegie Hall for a tribute to Lukas Foss, in honor of his 100th birthday (August 15, 1922 – Feb 1, 2009). Presented by Trinity Wall Street and Opus 3 Artists, the 7pm concert is a gift […]
2021-04-10 08:18:02
Go, not knowing where: I chat to pianist Elan Sicroff about Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann and the Thomas de Hartmann project
[…] (1929), Feuillet d'un vieil album (1929), Fantaisie - Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, Op. 65 (1942), Chanson sentimentale (1929), Deux pleureuses, Op. 64 (1942), Koladky, Op. 60 (1942) Ukrainian Christmas Carols, Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 63 (1941), Four Dances from Esther, (Act III of the opera) Op. 76 (1946), Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano, Op. 75 (1946)Katharina Naomi Paul violin, Natalia Gabunia violin, Ingrid Geerlings flute, Joris van Rijn violin, Anneke Janssen cello, Quirijn van Regteren Altena double bass, Amstel Quartet saxophones, Remco Jak soprano, Olivier Sliepen alto, Bas Apswoude tenor, Ties Mellema, baritoneThe Songs of Thomas de Hartmann - For soprano & piano, and for vocal quartet [Amazon]Settings of poems by Achmatova, Shelley, Zota, Ronsard, Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Joyce, Moreux & Gual Three Romances, Op. 5 (1900), Four Melodies, Op. 17 No. 4 - 'Vision of Pushkin', To the Moon, Op. 18 (1915), Morning (1931), Bulgarian […]
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