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Czech composer (1824–1884)
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2024-04-15 08:56:00
From the Homeland: Islington Festival of Music and Art
Islington Festival (Photo: Marc Gascoigne)Islington Festival of Music and Art is returning with fourteen events across nine venues in and around Islington from 5 to 20 July 2024. This year's festival takes as its theme, From the Homeland, and events take us through the landscapes of Czech Republic, Hungary and Denmark, as well as journeys from India to Scotland and Australia to America.The festival opens with a Czech theme as Joana Ly (violin), Miguel Ángel Villeda Cerón (cello) and Martin André (piano) perform music by Smetana, Martinu and Dvorak, and the festival finale returns to the theme with chamber music by Kapralova, Janacek and Dvorak.There is a Verdi recital from soprano Skye Ingram, tenor Brenton Spiteri and pianist Fran Hills. Soprano Daniela Sicari, bass Peter Rose and pianist Martin André present a selection of global songs and duets, in Towards the New World, from Australia to America.Baroque violinist Kati Debretzeni returns to complete her […]
2024-04-10 00:30:00
Beethoven: String Quartet op. 130, Große Fuge op. 133
Beethoven: String Quartet op. 130, Große Fuge op. 133 (Smetana Quartet, 1965 recording)String Quartet No.13 in B-flat Major, Op. 1301. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro (8:55)2. Presto (2:05)3. Andante con moto ma non troppo (6:31)4. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai (3:20)5. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo (6:10)6. Grosse Fuge in B-flat major Op. 133 (15:46)7. Finale. Allegro (newly composed as the finale of Op.130) (9:40)Supraphon – Japanese Edition COCO-70434, remastered by RMThis is one of my desert island discs. I think the interpretation of Beethoven's op. 130 has never been surpassed. However, in all previous CD editions the sound has been marred by excessive noise reduction (I've checked them all). The Japanese edition, on which this remastering is based, is the least affected by the problem. However, there were still audible and annoying artifacts caused by the noise reduction. With modern tools, it is now possible to eliminate the unwanted artifacts and the […]
2024-04-06 22:00:00
Piano Trios
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)Piano trio, Opus 15Josef Suk (1874-1935)Piano trio, Opus 2 - Elegie, Opus 23Lubos Fiser (1935-1999)Piano trio [1978]Guarneri Trio PragueRecorded June & September 2004Label: Praga PRD/DSD 250 218
2024-04-02 06:39:00
Celebrating 20 years of music in the unique and intimate venues of Fife’s East Neuk
The East Neuk Festival in Fife is beginning two years of celebrations, for the 20th anniversary of its founding in 2024, and the 20th festival in 2025. In the past two decades it has presented more than 400 events featuring nearly 3000 performers playing to a total audience of just over 200,000 people in the unique and intimate venues of Fife’s East Neuk (the fishing villages of the most northerly part of the Firth of Forth). The 2024 festival programme includes musicians from 18 nations converging on East Neuk for a five-day feast of live music, from 26-30 June, ranging from classical to jazz, experimental, traditional and contemporaryThis year's festival has a Czech flavour to some events, welcoming the Pavel Haas Quartet (in its UK debut) and Belfiato Wind Quintet playing five generations of Czech masters including Haas, Janáček, Suk, Reicha and Smetana. But there is also Japanese pianist Hisako Kawamura playing Akio Yashiro’s Sonata for Piano, […]
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