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2022-07-30 06:07:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 30, 2022
[…] includes the world premiere performance of Lewis’s Melodies for Miles along with his Thistledown and Creative Construction SetTM. Additional works on the program include Black as a Hack for Cyborgification by Jessie Cox, Cult of Electromagnetic Connectivity by Nicole Mitchell, and Delta Blues by Wadada Leo Smith.Melodies for Miles is dedicated to George Lewis’s college roommate, Miles Hoffman, who introduced Lewis to the tradition of Western classical violin, including musicians like Jascha Heifetz and Zino Francescatti. That in turn led to an introduction to the music of Alvin Singleton, where Lewis discovered the existence of the Afrodiasporic classical composer when he first heard a Singleton orchestral work in 1970. Lewis and Singleton have remained friends ever since.“The musical material in Melodies for Miles,” said Lewis, “isn’t depictive of that era in our lives. Rather, each and every time the work is performed, its aim is to reconnect the three of […]
2021-08-26 15:51:38
Born in Marseilles in 1902, Zino Francescatti's life spanned almost the entirety of the twentieth century. He made his public debut aged 10, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto, and went on to become one of the century's most celebrated violinists. Violinist Jacques Thibaud helped to promote Francescatti in his early career after hearing him at […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-08-09 13:47:46
composers and Solomon, 2021
[…] had a most unusual career: a child prodigy, he made his public debut at the age of eight, playing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto at the Queen’s Hall. Just a couple years later he stopped performing and disappeared for about 10 years. In 1924 he returned to the stage, his technique intact. He toured across Europe and in the US, played for the troops during WWII and later formed a famed trio with the violinist Zino Francescatti and cellist Pierre Fournier. Solomon brilliantly played a broad repertoire, including Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky. He was a great interpreter of such disparate composers as Beethoven and Chopin. Here is Chopin’s Berceuse, recorded in 1946. Solomon loved to play Brahms’s Intermezzo in C Major Op. 119 No. 3, both during the main program or as an encore. Here’s a recording from 1952. The wonderful Italian pianist Aldo Ciccolini was born on August 15th of […]
2020-08-22 16:57:27
I love all Tango music, especially when it is played with a great deal of authenticity. Today I came across and arrangement made by Fritz Kreisler that he likely used as an encore piece for his own concerts. Just picture a graceful couple, gliding on a low-lit dance floor… Here is this music, as performed by the great violinist Zino Francescatti, with Artur Balsam, piano:
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