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2024-01-26 02:31:44
A professor at the Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, Italian pianist Martina Frezzotti studied with Lazar Berman, and later with Elisso Virsaladze at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow, where she earned her doctorate. She follows up her marvelous Piano Classics solo debut CD devoted to Fanny Mendelssohn’s music with a well-curated Amy Beach program that represents […]
2022-02-21 14:50:04
Handel, 2022
[…] were Russian-born but none spent their life in Russia: Benno Moiseiwitsch, a British pianist, was born in Odessa, then in the Russian Empire into a Jewish family, on February 22nd of 1890; then three day later is the anniversary of another Brit, this time a “real” one but also Jewish, Dame Myra Hess. Nikita Magaloff, of Russian-Georgian descent who spent much of his life in Switzerland, was born in Saint-Petersburg on February 21st of 1912. Lazar Berman, another Russian (also Jewish), was born on the 26th the month in 1930 in Leningrad (now St.-Petersburg) and, finally, yet another Russian-born pianist, Arcadi Volodos (no, this one is not Jewish) was born on February 24th of 1972, also in Leningrad; these days Volodos lives in Spain. None of these pianists were very interested in the music of Handel, the only example we could find of one of them playing his music is […]
2021-10-18 14:14:16
The Italians, 2021
[…] opera buffa, but his were more popular), but practically none of them are staged these days. The comic opera Il filosofo di campagna, based on the libretto by Carlo Goldoni, was extremely popular throughout Europe. Here’s the cheerful overture. Francesco Piva leads the Italian group Intermusicale Ensemble. Franz Liszt was also born this week, on October 22nd of 1811. Staying with the Italian theme, here is Sonetto 47 del Petrarca, from Années de pèlerinage: Italie. Lazar Berman recorded it in 1977. Finally, the great Jewish-Hungarian-American conductor, Georg Solti was born (as György Stern) on October 21st of 1912. His first significant position was that of the music director at the Bavarian State Opera; he was then hired at the Frankfurt Opera and, in 1961, became the music director of the Covent Garden Opera. Only later did he develop his career as a symphony conductor. Solti recorded 45 complete operas, and […]
2021-09-09 15:16:01
Sonya Bach started playing the piano at the age of three, gave her first public concert at age five, and made her orchestra debut at age nine with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra. She received musical educations on full scholarships at the Juilliard School in New York and Accademia Pianistica “Incontri col Maestro” in Italy where she has been the youngest pupil of the late Lazar Berman. Also, Sonia was a pupil of Olegna Fuschi, Rosina Lhévinne’s pupil who was Sonia’s Juilliard pre-college teacher and former director. A protégé of the late Alicia de Larrocha, Sonia earned a Masters degree in
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