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La Scena Musicale Offers a selection of holidat season gift ideas for music lovers From the Met Opera Shop www.metoperashop.org The Opera House Documentary & 50 Years at Lincoln Center Collection (SET) $58.00 / $52.20 USD. Members: $46.98 USD This 2-piece set celebrates the storied and rich history of the Metropolitan Opera House in the last half century. [...]
2014-12-17 18:32:56
Ekaterina Litvintseva, the Arctic Circle pianist
Ekaterina Litvintseva emphasizes her youth and sensitivity in a convincing all-Rachmaninoff program. Everyone already knows about Hélène Grimaud and her wolves; perhaps now when we think of Ekaterina Litvintseva, we will recall her childhood in Anadyr on the Bering Sea, the easternmost city of Russia, just south of the Arctic Circle, where snow covers the ground 270 days a year and 130 days a year see blizzard conditions. The booklet of Litvintseva’s new CD (which will be released in January 2015), a veritable trove of biographical information, features beautiful tundra landscapes and sepia-tinted photographs of a little girl alone in the snowy wilderness, but says not a word about the chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. During Litvintseva’s formative years, Anadyr lost a third of its population, which had never amounted to more than twenty thousand inhabitants, and musical life across the entire country suffered. For her […]
2014-11-28 16:32:19
Closing concert of the Anders Hillborg festival
One of the highlights of the Stockholm concert season is the annual composer festival organized by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Stockholm Concert Hall. Each year’s festival Offers a series of concerts which focus almost exclusively on a single composer, giving audiences a unique opportunity to be fully immersed in the composer’s universe. In its nearly 30 years of existence, the festival has featured some of the greatest composers of our time: Lutoslawski, Schnittke, Gubaidulina, and Penderecki, to name just a few. This year’s festival was dedicated to arguably Sweden’s greatest living composer, Anders Hillborg . The program opened with the world premiere performance of Beast Sampler. The composer states that the work’s title was inspired in part by the concept of the orchestra as a « sound animal. » The work began with a vortex of sound: unpitched blowing sounds from wind instruments, surging and receding strings, […]
2014-08-31 15:21:43
Schloss Elmau, Alpine music
ResMusica: Schloss Elmau is a beautiful place. Can you tell us a bit about its history? What are the links between Elmau and music? Silke Zimmerman : Schloss Elmau was built in 1916, to offer a retreat into nature, away from the maddening crowd. It’s interesting to see that even in itsfirst year, there were 100 concerts played in the wonderful hall of the Schloss, with its fabulousacoustics. So it has always been a place where music was an intrinsic part of the scenery. We are currently reproducing the archives (which were all burned in the 2005 fire that basically destroyed the old house), and we find that all the great musicians of theirtime came to play in the house: Wilhelm Kempff was « house pianist » for several years; the Amadeus quartet called it their second home; Gidon Kremer came here, after leaving the East in the mid-70s. Britten […]
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