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2022-03-21 05:48:00
[…] Ms. Downes’s new album, “Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered,” will prompt yet another renewal in the man’s music. I hope so.Anyway, for those of you who don’t know her, Lara Downes is a Steinway artist whose work always exhibits an exceptionally poetic and dramatic presence. Born in San Francisco of Caribbean and Russian heritage, Ms. Downes began piano lessons at age four. Since making concert debuts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Salle Gaveau, Ms. Downes continues to perform on the world’s leading stages, including Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center.In thinking of what to say about Ms. Downes’s talents, I went back and read over my previous reviews of her performances. These lines from some years back probably sum up her work best: “To say that Lara Downes plays the piano is the same as saying Claude Monet painted landscapes. The French impressionist artist Monet’s […]
2021-03-29 16:56:43
Christian Ferras was born at Le Touquet, France in 1933. He began studying the violin with his father. In 1948 Ferras won First Prize at the international Scheveningen Festival; Yehudi Menuhin was among the judges. He premiered Arthur Honegger’s Sonata for Solo Violin in the Salle Gaveau on 16 November 1948. Mr. Ferras died in 1982 in Paris. Here he is in his excellent playing of the Sibelius concerto:
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Faces of classical music
2018-11-12 02:28:00
Claude Debussy: Les Trois Sonates (The Late Works) – Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Javier Perianes, Xavier de Maistre, Antoine Tamestit, Magali Mosnier, Tanguy de Williencourt (Audio video)
[…] oddest distortions to end up with the simple working of an idea that turns back on itself". This, Debussy's last completed work, marks the quintessence of his language in the rapid succession of thematic cells that follow one another with innovative effects of sonority between the piano and the violin, but also passages of a very inward, griefstricken lyricism. Although very ill, the composer gave the first performance with the violinist Gaston Poulet at the Salle Gaveau on 5 May 1917. In September 1917, he noted with bitterness and sadness that since the blissful summer of 1915 when he thought he had "overcome the curse", he had composed little: "What has happened since? I almost dare not think of it! But I am still sick and the catalogue of my works has not increased much! On the other hand: I'm a year older... That's not exactly promising for my future, […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-06-21 09:14:00
Lucas Debargue plays Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Franz Liszt, Erik Satie and Frédéric Chopin – Grange de Meslay, 2016 (HD 1080p)
[…] coveted Moscow Music Critic's Prize as a pianist who's "incredible gift, artistic vision, and creative freedom have impressed the critics as well as the audience".Straight after this incredible breakthrough Lucas Debargue was invited to play solo and with leading orchestras in the most prestigious concert halls of the world: the Grand Hall of Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow; Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall and St Petersburg Philharmonic Hall; Theatre des Champs Elysées, Salle Gaveau and Paris Philharmonic; Conservatory of Milan; Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall in London; Amsterdam's Concertgebouw; Prinzregententheater in Munich and the Berlin Philharmonic Hall; Konserthuset in Stockholm; Carnegie Hall in New York and further prestigious concert halls in Tokyo, Osaka, Chicago, Montréal, Toronto, Seattle, Mexico, Beijing, Taipei, Shanghai, Seoul...He also collaborates with such famous conductors as Valery Gergiev, Andrey Boreyko, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Spivakov, Yutaka Sado, Tugan Sokhiev and he also appears regularly […]
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