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2016-03-01 13:00:54
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 You can listen to the Classical Music Almanac Podcast Daily here. Birthdays Photograph of Chopin by Bisson, c. 1849 In 1810 Frédéric Chopin was born. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose “poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation.” Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. At the age of 21 he settled in Paris. Thereafter, during the last 18 years of his life, he gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate […]
2015-12-07 00:49:58
Musicians Beata Halska and Claudio Chaiquin talk about researching and recording French composer Florent Schmitt's music for violin and piano.
[…] and Chabrier. Little by little I came to discover other French composers as well — lesser-known ones like Reynaldo Hahn, André Caplet, Maurice Emmanuel, and of course Florent Schmitt. The very first pieces I knew by Schmitt were part of the two-piano suite Reflets d’Allemagne. Beata Halska BH: Actually, I did not know the chamber music of Florent Schmitt before I first proposed to record a live France Musique [Radio France] broadcast in its Festival Présences series in which the Sonate libre was performed. But I already knew and enjoyed hearing some of Schmitt’s orchestral works, beginning with La Tragédie de Salomé. PLN: How did the idea of doing an album devoted to Schmitt’s music for violin and piano come about? CC: As Beata mentioned, she had already performed the Sonate libre with her mother, Barbara Halska — a well-known Polish pianist — for the radio program. But she […]
2015-02-16 18:47:53
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