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2023-12-04 15:01:32
Ernst Toch and more, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: December 4, 2023. Ernst Toch and more. Erns Toch, the Jewish-Austrian composer, was born on December 7th of 1887 in Leopoldstadt, a poor, mostly Jewish area in Vienna. Toch was one of a group of Austrian and German composers whose lives were upended by the rise of Nazism (Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schreker, Karl Weigl, Egon Wellesz, Hans Gál, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Berthold Goldschmidt, all Jewish, mostly forgotten except of course for Schoenberg, all talented if to a different degree, had their lives broken in 1933). One thing we find interesting is the ease with which they moved from Austria to Germany. These were two very different empires, one, declining, ruled by the peace-seeking Emperor Franz Joseph from Vienna, another – very much on the ascent, economically, politically and militarily, ruled by the arrogant and insecure Keiser Wilhelm II. But musicians thought nothing of moving […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-10-01 23:03:23
Gravity Waves and Curveballs: Sherman Remembered
[caption id="attachment_32597" align="alignleft" width="300"] Gravity abhors straight lines[/caption] We reprint our well-remembered 2016 feature and interview with Russell Sherman. He died last night at 93. Russell Sherman’s eagerly awaited annual faculty recital on April 3rd at Jordan Hall will feature works long connected with him: Schoenberg’s Three Pieces for Piano, Op. 11, Beethoven’s Sonata for Piano No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”, Debussy’s Préludes, Book 2, and Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes (12) for Piano, S 139, No. 2 in A Minor: Molto vivace, No. 9 in A-flat Major “Ricordanza”, No. 10 in F Minor: Allegro agitato molto. He tells us he plays them differently each time. He can also imitate other famous pianists. He has lots to say in a free-form interview which follows the break. Youngish concertgoers and musicians who are not yet old will find it very difficult to imagine either the sea change that took place […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-04-28 17:29:41
Paula Ernesaks and László Gál have passed their... The post Berlin Philharmonic confirms two horns appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-07-19 16:09:10
Administered jointly by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and the Villa Musica Foundation, the Hans Gál Prize was established in 2020 and carries a value of €10,000. The 2022 edition was given to the Austrian ensemble, the Javus Quartett. Formed in 2016 while all its members were students at the Mozarteum in […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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