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2021-09-03 11:46:00
Violinist Igor Oistrakh has died
Son of the renowned musician David Oistrakh, the violinist and educator lived to the age of 90 The Strad — September 1, 2021 Violinist Igor Oistrakh has died at the age of 90. He was born in 1931 in Odessa, Ukraine, the son of Tamara Rotareva and acclaimed violinist David Oistrakh. After initial musical studies with his father, Oistrakh studied at the Central Music School in Moscow, followed by tuition at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He won the Budapest International Violin Competition in 1949, as well as the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poland in 1952. As well as an international solo career, Oistrakh was a dedicated teacher, joining the faculty of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1958. Since 1996, he was a violin professor at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. He retained […]
2021-06-10 20:12:25
Born in San Francisco to Russian and Armenian parents, Orbelian served as Music Director of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. He was the first-ever American to hold a Music Director position in Russia. He has appeared frequently as guest conductor with other illustrious Russian orchestras, and since 2016, has been the Artistic Director of the State […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-01-19 17:02:57
Russian Violin Virtuoso Andrei Korsakov Died On This Day in 1991 [ON-THIS-DAY]
Russian violin virtuoso and pedagogue Andrei Korsakov died on this day in 1991 – aged just 44. A protégé of Boris Belenky and Leonid Kogan, Maestro Korsakov was a former prize winner at the Queen Elisabeth, Paganini, Jacques Thibaud and Montreal International Violin Competitions – and served as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. ANDREI […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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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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