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Watch Marina Frolova-Walker's lecture, which discusses the system that has dominated western music since the seventeenth century
2021-09-23 19:00:00
Throwing down the symphonic gauntlet: piano music by Beethoven-Liszt, Schubert, and Prokofiev
[…] not mean that what we lived by therefore ceases to exist. We continue to feel and to love. Now the full range of human emotions bursts forth. Together with our fellow men and women, we raise a voice of protest and share the common grief. We sweep everything before us, borne along by the will for victory. In the tremendous struggle that this involves, we find the strength to affirm the irrepressible life force. Marina Frolova-Walker has similarly discerned a ‘Beethovenian narrative of victory won through struggle’: socialist realism, perhaps, though not of a dogmatic variety, and coming more naturally to Prokofiev than some would like. Beethovenian realism might be better: in its inner voices, the second half of the opening theme bears apparent reference to what we have come to know as Beethoven’s motif of fate. This is no transcription, yet ambition to attain orchestral stature or suggestion remains, […]
2021-02-28 11:26:00
A Life On-Line: Spring songs in Oxford, time-travel at Wigmore Hall, luscious duets in Rotherhithe
[…] there was a delightful guest appearance from accordionist Ksenija Sidorova playing Astor Piazzolla, Sergey Voitenko and Franck Angelis. [London Chamber Orchestra] Also live this week, Opera Live at Home presented Kathleen Ferrier Winner Loveday Song Prize 2020 winner Milly Forrest (soprano) and Ian Tindal (piano) in a lovely recital of arias by Handel, Mozart, Smetana, Humperdinck and Massenet. [Opera Live at Home] One event I missed, but plan to watch in catch-up mode is Marina Frolova-Walker's lecture for Gresham College on Stravinsky's piano music, with illustrations from pianist Peter Donohoe as part of the college's Russian Piano Masterpieces season. Essential watching I think [Gresham College] The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog What would Bach do? Guitarist Yuri Liberzon on recording the Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin in transcriptions by […]