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Ukrainian violinist (1919–2008)
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2024-04-08 14:26:23
Sol Hurok, 2024
[…] household name. Among Hurok’s longest associations were those with Arthur Rubinstein and Isaac Stern. The list of Hurok’s clients read as Who-is-Who in American Music: he worked with the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, violinists Nathan Milstein and Efrem Zimbalist, and later represented the younger stars, Van Cliburn, Jacqueline du Pré, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman. For many years Hurok tried to bring Soviet artists to America. It became possible only after Stalin’s death. The pianists Emil Gilels and violinist David Oistrakh came first, in 1955, then, later, such luminaries as Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leonid Kogan and Mstislav Rostropovich. Hurok also represented the singers Galina Vishnevskaya and Irina Arkhipova and conductors Kiril Kondrashin and Yevgeny Svetlanov. Some of Hurok’s greatest coups were achieved with the ballet companies: the Bolshoi tour in 1959 was a sensational success, and so was Kirov’s, which Hurok brought in 1961. Sol Hurok died in New York […]
2023-12-18 15:57:45
Three Pianists, December 2023
This Week in Classical Music: December 18, 2023. Three Pianists. During the last month, we were preoccupied with composers and completely ignored the performers, who bring their music to the public. So today we bring you three wonderful pianists: Radu Lupu, a Romanian, Mitsuko Uchida, born in Japan, and András Schiff, a British-Hungarian. All three belong to the same generation: Lupu was born in 1945 (on November 30th), Uchida in 1948 (on December 20th), and Schiff – in 1953, on December 21st. Uchida and Schiff are still performing, Lupu died on April 17th of last year. Radu Lupu is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of his time. He studied in Moscow with Heinrich Neuhaus, who also taught Richter and Gilels. In the three years from 1966 to 1969, he won three major piano competitions, the Cliburn, the Enescu, and the Leeds, and embarked on an international career with successful […]
2023-10-16 13:50:53
Short Notes I, October 2023
[…] to the court of King Sigismund III Vasa in Warsaw. He stayed in Poland for a year, got seriously ill there, and returned to Rome, where he died in 1599. Franz Liszt was also born this week, on October 22nd of 1811 in a small Hungarian village next to the border with Austria. One interesting snippet about Liszt that we were not aware of till recently: he didn’t speak Hungarian. Two fine Soviet pianists, Emil Gilels and Yakov Flier, both excellent interpreters of Liszt’s music, also have their anniversaries this week: Gilels was born on October 19th, 1916 in Odesa, Flier – on October 21st, 1912 – in a small town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo not far from Moscow. Baldassare Galuppi and Georg Solti were also born this week, but as with so much else, we’ll leave them for better days.
2022-10-20 02:17:01
Emil Gilels, born Emil Grigoryevich Gilels, Oct. 6 [Oct. 19, New Style], 1916, in Odessa, Ukraine, i
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