Andrea Luchesi News
Italian composer (1741-1801)
- organ
- opera, classical music, liturgical music
- Republic of Venice, Electorate of Cologne
- organist, composer, conductor
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2019-04-11 01:55:13
Born in 1741, the Italian composer Andrea Luchesi had a multi-faceted career. His operas were well regarded in their day, while he enjoyed renown as a keyboard virtuoso. In 1774 he was appointed to the court of Prince Elector Max Friedrich in Bonn. With the arrival of Napoleonic troops in 1794, Luchesi lost his job, […]
2017-08-06 12:31:30
ROBERTO PLANO performs regularly all over the world appearing with prestigious orchestras and festivals. Mr. Plano was the First Prize Winner at the 2001 Cleveland International Piano Competition, a prize winner at the Honens, Dublin, Sendai, Geza Anda and Valencia competitions and Finalist at the 2005 Van Cliburn, in addition to having won first prizes in several national competitions in Italy. Mr. Plano’s engaging personality has made him a favorite guest on radio programs such as NPR’s “Performance Today,” and on TV shows for PBS and Japan’s NHK. He has recorded CDs for Brilliant, Azica, Arktos, Sipario, and he recently released two world premiere CDs on the Concerto label with music by re-discovered 18th-century Italian composer Andrea Luchesi that were reviewed with 5 stars out of 5 in the music magazine “Musica”. In May 2016 Amadeus magazine awarded the maximum 5-star rating of his new Decca CD recording of Liszt’s “Harmonies […]
2017-05-06 03:51:28
[…] Moreau Gottschalk Giovanni Paisiello Julius Röntgen Jan van Gilse William Grant Still Joseph Marx William Grant Still Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Johann Baptist Wanhal Franz Anton Hoffmeister Giovanni Battista Viotti Adolf von Henselt Otto Klemperer Boris Parsadanian Andrei Eshpai Francesco Pasquale Ricci Otto Klemperer Werner Egk Jean Cras Andrea Luchesi Ignaz Moscheles Józef Wieniawski Jean Françaix Paul Paray Claude Champagne Isaac Albéniz Alfredo Antonini
2013-12-29 16:25:00
Brazil’s Fat Lady Can’t Sing, But She Can Still Do the Bossa Nova (Part One)
An Introduction to my “Personal and Cultural History of Opera, Popular Music, Soccer, Musical Theater and the Cinema in the Land of Carnival and Samba” “Ho-yo-to-ho!” Brazil’s Fat Lady Sings (clatl.com) A Preface to Life Life is simply not worth living if one is insufficiently challenged or inspired by it. My stories were inspired by several themes in my life, the main one being the dramatic and forever fluctuating fortunes of Brazil’s operatic Fat Lady, a subject not so normally written about even in my former home country. Innocently enough, this all came about not as a weighty historical tome, but as a series of challenges (to myself, mostly) in the form of freelance articles first published online at an unprepossessing Internet Website. Why challenging? Because, as it quickly became apparent, a great deal of my time and effort would have to be spent on the […]
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