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Faces of classical music
2021-08-10 15:10:00
Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin – Sean Chen (HD 1080p)
Chen Sean (Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco) Ravel's last set of piano pieces, the suite Le tombeau de Couperin, acquired memorial significance only after his initial imagining of it as a Suite française: when young friends of his began to die in the trenches, a nostalgic look at eighteenth-century French music in general assumed more personal references. There is therefore very little if anything here that is solemn, let alone lugubrious. After a digitally challenging "Prélude", the "Fugue" (Ravel's only published example of the form) unfolds with a sense of placid purpose, enlivened by the countersubject's descending triplet. The "Forlane", written in the summer of 1914, was the first movement to be written, and Ravel prepared for it by transcribing the forlane from Couperin's fourth Concert royal, keeping the overall structure (ABACADA) […]
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Faces of classical music
2020-12-25 07:07:00
Yekwon Sunwoo plays Franz Schubert (Piano Sonata in C minor) & Maurice Ravel (La Valse) – Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Quarterfinal Round Recital (HD 1080p)
Gold medalist of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, 31-year-old Korean pianist Yekwon Sunwoo plays Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in C minor, D.958, and Maurice Ravel's La Valse, M.72, transcription for Piano Solo. The recital recorded at the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Bass Performance Hall, in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 30, 2017. ✻ Franz Schubert's last three piano sonatas, written between the spring and autumn of 1828, the last year of his life, are often considered as a group, sharing many elements of structure and form. He performed the three sonatas at a concert for his friends on 28 September 1828, and in October offered them to his publisher, Probst, who was not interested. Schubert's health, already weak, rapidly deteriorated and he died on 19 November 1828, at the age of thirty-one. The Sonata in C minor, like the others in the group of three, is strongly influenced by Beethoven, […]
2020-11-25 13:39:54
Pianist Sabine Weyer was born in Luxembourg City, and started playing piano at the age of six. She studied at the Conservatoire de Musique Esch-sur-Alzette, then at the Conservatoire national régional in France. Later she received her Masters and Postgraduate Diploma in piano performance. During her studies she trained with the likes of Oxana Yablonskaya, Mario Patuzzi, Michel Béroff, Vassil Guenov, Aquiles Delle Vigne and Françoise Buffet-Arsenijevic. Ms. Weyer has performed all over the world, including in such venues as the Berliner Philharmonie, the Shanghai Concert Hall, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the salle Cortot in Paris, Philharmonie Luxembourg, and the
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Faces of classical music
2019-10-12 09:55:00
Franz Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, arr. for Viola and String Orchestra – Richard O'Neill, New York Classical Players, Dongmin Kim (HD 1080p)
Accompanied by the New York Classical Players under the baton of the South Korean conductor Dongmin Kim, the American violist Richard O'Neill performs Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D.821, arranged for Viola and String Orchestra by Dobrinka Tabakova. The concert was recorded at W83 Concert Hall, New York, on May 1, 2015.✻In 1824, disappointed by the recent failure of his opera, Alfonso und Estrella (despite the fact that he considered it one of his finest works), Schubert returned to instrumental music on a smaller scale. As Bach had been stimulated by the recent invention of a five-string cello (with a top E string) to emphasise the Sixth Suite's position as the crowning glory of the set by writing in a higher register for the instrument than in the previous five suites, Schubert was clearly motivated by the arrival of the six-stringed arpeggione, a strange hybrid of a bowed instrument with the extended range and […]
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