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2023-01-20 00:00:08
The first instalment in our brief survey of music from the Nordic countries – Finland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden [FINDS] – featured composers from Iceland and Sweden. This edition showcases music by a selection of Danish composers, whom we’ll introduce in broadly chronological order. We start with Friedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832) who, although he was German-born,
2022-09-05 14:11:39
Over-abundance, 2022
[…] There are more, most not as famous as the ones listed above, and we’ll mention only two of them, Hernando de Cabezón, the son of more notable Antonio de Cabezón, a composer, music publisher and the organist to the Spanish King Philip II (Philip was also the most important patron of the great Italian painter Titian – the Prado museum in Madrid contains the greatest collection of Titians’ paintings). Also, the Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau, familiar to many who had studied the piano and played his sonatinas. We’d like to give you a couple of samples of the music of our composers taken from very different eras. First, Isabella Leonarda’s Magnificat, composed in 1696. It’s performed by the Italian ensemble Musica Laudantes (here). And here, from 1950, is John Cage’s String Quartet in Four Parts, recorded by the Adritti Quartet. Two Russian pianists were also born this week, Maria […]
2022-05-21 08:37:43
Rediscovering the joys of playing together: Noemi Gyori & Gergely Madaras their disc of flute duets
Noemi Gyori and Gergely Madaras (Photo Benjamin Ealovega) Gergely Madaras is best known as a conductor (he is music director of Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, and was the inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Fellow at English National Opera), but he originally studied the flute and for many years had a duo partnership with the flautist Noemi Gyori, who happens to be his wife. Noemi is an international recitalist, the first flautist to hold a PhD from the Royal Academy of Music; she teaches at the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester, while being principal flute of the Jewish Chamber Orchestra in Munich. The two have returned to playing the flute together and with pianist Alexander Ullmann have recently issued a disc of music for two flutes by the Doppler brothers (Karl and Franz) and Friedrich Kuhlau on the Rubicon label. I recently […]
2021-05-24 03:04:34
When piano pedagogues want to assign classical period works that are somewhat manageable for young students, they often choose sonatinas by the Danish composer and pianist Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832). Yet the sonatinas are more than mere teaching pieces. They are full of invention and charm, and smartly crafted. Who’d suspect, for example, that the Op. […]
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