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2020-10-12 20:10:39
A student of Simon James and Shmuel Ashkenazi, Sophie is the recipient of a 2019 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant and was awarded 1st prize at the 2016 Junior Menuhin Competition, in London, aged just 12. Sophie’s recent solo engagements include performances with the London Philharmonia, Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2020-09-25 22:07:38
Beethoven approaches Yom Kippur
Welcome to the 121st work in the Slipped Disc/Idagio Beethoven Edition String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor op. 131 (part 2) You can read part 1 here. The sixth movement of Beethoven’s 14th string quartet opens, for reasons he never indicated and no-one else has explained, with the unmistakable musical phrase on Kol Nidrei that Ashkenazi […]
2020-08-23 22:14:39
Niv Ashkenazi’s Lyrical Debut Album Celebrates Obscure Composers Imperiled or Murdered During the Holocaust
On a musical level alone, Niv Ashkenazi’s debut album Violins of Hope with pianist Matthew Graybil
2020-07-14 08:18:50
Charity premieres: new works by Roxanna Panufnik and Paul Mealor in events raising money for musical charities
Composers Roxanna Panufnik and Paul Mealor have premieres happening on-line in the forthcoming weeks, in events raising money for musical charities. On Monday 20 July 2020 the Sacconi Quartet is giving the premiere of Panufnik's new string quartet Heartfelt, which takes its inspiration from an 18th century Uzbek court musician’s pulse rate and a Bulgarian dancing bear’s heartbeat. Also in the programme will be her 2000 song-cycle, Private Joe (for which the quartet is joined by baritone Roderick Williams), a work which explores the story of a World War I soldier, plus two of her smaller pieces, the Ashkenazi-inspired viola solo Canto and Eastern European gypsy themed Hora Bessarabia, for violin and double bass (Andrew Marshall). Donations (https://www.paypal.me/sacconiquartet) will go to the Royal Society of Musicians The choral scholars of Cathedrals in the South-West have got together to raise money for the Cathedral Choirs Emergency Fund, and […]
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