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2024-03-28
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All the conducting master class
2024-03-07 09:15:00
10 – 15 Jun, 2024 The next masterclass of the Peter Eötvös Foundation will evolve around pieces by Peter Eötvös: Ligetydill, György Kurtág: Brefs messages op.47 and György Ligeti: Melodien. Benoît Sitzia, composer and artistic director of Ensemble Ars Nova will be featured as guest professor, alongside Gregory Vajda, conductor, composer. The workshop will be […]
2024-02-26 15:10:33
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part I, 2024
[…] February 23rd of 1685; also, one of the most interesting German composers of the 16th century, Michael Praetorius, was born on February 15th of 1571. We missed the birthday of Francesco Cavalli, a very important composer in the history of opera, on February 14th of 1602. Two famous Italians were also born during those three weeks, Archangelo Corelli on February 17th of 1653 and Luigi Boccherini, on February 19th of 1743. Of our contemporaries, György Kurtág, one of the most important composers of the late 20th century, celebrated his 98th (!) birthday on February 19th. And then this week, there are two big dates: Frédéric Chopin’s anniversary is on March 1st (he was born in 1810) and Gioachino Rossini’s birthday will be celebrated on February 29th – he was born 232 years ago, in 1792. We’ve written about all these composers, about Handel and Chopin many times. Today, though, we’ll […]
2024-01-23 08:23:00
Homage to Liszt: Benjamin Grosvenor on astonishing form in Liszt and Brett Dean in Lucerne
Brett Dean: Faustian Pact - Benjamin Grosvenor - Le Piano Symphonique at Lukaskirche, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli für das Luzerner Sinfonieorchester)Brett Dean: Faustian Pact, Hommage à Liszt (first performance), Liszt: Sonata in B minor, Chopin: Sonata No. 3; Benjamin Grosvenor; Le Piano Symphonique at Lukaskirche, LucerneReviewed 19 January 2024Benjamin Grosvenor combines astonishing virtuosity alongside intimacy and sheer power in Liszt's sonata and Brett Dean's new piece inspired by Grosvenor's performance of the LisztWhat did the piano sonata mean for those who came after Beethoven. Chopin' first mature sonata (no 2 in B flat major from 1839) has become one of the icons of the piano repertoire, but for Robert Schumann the work demonstrated that Chopin could not handle sonata form. Chopin wrote his Sonata No. 3, in B minor (a key not used by Beethoven for his sonatas) in 1844, partly to counter these criticisms.Chopin adhered to the traditional four-movement sonata […]
2023-12-31 16:56:00
[…] 12 Wagner 8 Beethoven, Strauss 7 Brahms, Schumann 6 Bach 5 Schubert, Byrd 4 Mahler, Prokofiev 3 Benjamin, Chopin, Ligeti, Liszt, Ravel 2 Berg, Bizet, Debussy, Dvořák, Handel, Haydn, Henze, Knussen, Puccini, Schoenberg 1 Alkan, Dieter Ammann, CPE Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, JCF Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berberian, Berio, Boismortier, Boulez, Busoni, Cage, Chausson, Cherubini, Unsuk Chin, Coleridge-Taylor, Crumb, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Francesco Filidei, Grisey, Saed Haddad, Hartmann, Hindemith, Holliger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Janáček, Korngold, Kurtág, Márton Illés, Jolas, Sigurd von Koch, Lachenmann, Edward Lambert, Manoury, Martinů, Messiaen, Mompou, Mussorgsky, Elizabeth Ogonek, Poulenc, Purcell, Rachmaninov, Reger, Reimann, Rossini, Saariaho, Saint-Saëns, Scarlatti, Schmidt, Schoeck, Schnittke, Schoenberg, Schulhoff, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Scriabin, Sweelinck, Tchaikovsky, Telemann, Tippett, Ustolvskaja, Varèse, Vivaldi, Wagner, Weelkes, Weill, Widmann, Wolf, Xenakis, Zimmermann
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