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French composer (1855–1899)
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] editor of the latest edition (2023) of the Köchel catalogue of Mozart’s works; Munch gestured to Neal for a well-deserved bow afterward. Around that time I was up in the main house as Charles Munch, accompanied by his assistant, Leonard Burkat, stood in the front hallway. In the one and only time I ever spoke to the great man, I cautiously went up to him and said, “M. Munch, when will the Boston Symphony perform Chausson’s Symphony in B-flat Major?” Barely looking away from what occupied him at the moment, he replied, “Yes, sometime soon, perhaps next year — it is a beautiful piece of music, isn’t it?” [The BSO has played the Chausson Symphony 46 times, beginning under Vincent d’Indy in 1905. This weekend’s performances are the first since 1993.] I wrote more on Chausson HERE Mark DeVoto, musicologist and composer, is an expert on the music of Alban […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-16 21:20:47
Word is out! With pianist Yunchan Lim in Rach 3 and an exuberant account of Chausson’s only symphony, conductor Tugan Sokhieve and the Boston Symphony Orchestra have a sellout. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-02-07 09:47:00
Sophisticated timbres & detailed textures: UK premiere of Helen Grime's String Quartet No. 2 & Ravel's String Quartet from Heath Quartet at Wigmore Hall
[…] your music system at home, then it was this one. The good news is that you can, NMC Recordings issued the Heath Quartet's recording of Grime's String Quartet No. 2 as part of Bracing Change 2, a compilation of new work for string quartet which also includes music by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Paul Newland. Further details from the NMC website.There is curious tradition in French music of composers only writing a single string quartet. Franck, Chausson and Debussy all wrote a single example. Ravel wrote his quartet in 1904 and the influence of Debussy's quartet can be felt (too much so, according to some of Ravel's contemporaries). Ravel's teacher, Faure, would only write his quartet 20 years later in 1924.Ravel's sophisticated control of timbre and texture perhaps encouraged the quartet to programme this work after the Grime premiere. But in the Ravel, the players also mined a remarkable sense of […]
2024-01-15 16:11:56
Schein and many other, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: January 15, 2024. Schein and much more. Several composers were born this week: Niccolò Piccinni (b. 1/16/1728), a nearly forgotten Italian composer who was famous in his day for his Neapolitan opera buffa; Cesar Cui (b. 1/18/1835), a Russian composer of French descent (his father entered Russia with Napoleon) and a member of the Mighty Five; Emmanuel Chabrier (b. 1/18/1841), a mostly self-taught French composer, whose España is his best-known symphonic work but who also wrote some very nice songs; Ernest Chausson (b. 1/20/1855), another Frenchman, who wrote the Poème for the violin and orchestra which entered the repertoire of all virtuoso violinists; Walter Piston (b. 1/20/1894), a prolific and prominent American composer of the 20th century who often used Schoenberg’s 12-note method; Alexander Tcherepnin (b. 1/20/1899), a Russian composer who was born into a prominent musical family (his father, Nikolai Tcherepnin was a noted composer […]
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