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Opera with an edge may be all the rage these days, […]
2020-06-08 04:20:00
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D Minor (CD review)
Also, Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra. Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin; Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano. Theodore Kuchar, Slovak National Symphony Orchestra. Brilliant Classics 95733. No, not that one. This is the violin concerto Mendelssohn wrote when he was thirteen.According to Wikipedia, "The Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in D minor was composed by Felix Mendelssohn" around 1822. "It has three movements, Allegro–Andante–Allegro, and performance duration is approximately 22 minutes. Mendelssohn was considered by many of his time to be a prodigy comparable only to the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Besides being a brilliant piano virtuoso, his composition took a firm step forward in musical development. In the period when this concerto was composed, Mendelssohn composed twelve string symphonies. At the age of eleven, he had written a trio for strings, a violin and piano sonata, two piano sonatas, and the beginning of a third, three more for four hands, four for […]
2020-01-03 13:32:07
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2018-06-18 15:15:00
Haunted Arabia - W Denis Browne
W. Denis Browne (1888-1915), as a schoolboy at Greyfriars, Leamington Spa. This photo might sum him up better than the usual photos of him in uniform, for his last music was written in June 1914. Almost exactly a year later, he would be killed at Gallipolli. In this photo his Youthful Spirit is captured forever, gazing wistfully but unafraid. Browne went on to Cambridge and later studied with Busoni. He heard Stravinsky, and was impressed enough by The Rite of Spring and Petrushka to embark on his own ballet, never completed. Today he's best known for a handful of songs, particularly To Gratiana, Dancing and Singing to a poem by Richard Lovelace (1617-1657). Though that song is well represented on recordings, most of the other songs are less well served. I wish there were better versions on record of Arabia, for example, Browne's last completed song, which I've heard live […]
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