Jaromír Weinberger News
Czechoslovak-American composer (1896–1967)
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- composer, conductor, music teacher
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2023-11-22 11:31:00
The other Tchaikowsky violin concerto: as Polish composer André Tchaikowsky's concerto gets its UK premiere we look at the work's intriguing history.
[…] 1962, they became friends and formed piano-violin duo, giving concerts together. André Tchaikowsky wrote a violin concerto for her, they got as far as playing it through and she made comments. But then relations between the two became strained and the concerto was put to one side. A reconciliation brought the work back into the mix, but by then it was too late and André Tchaikowsky died in 1982. The original manuscript, which in the Josef Weinberger archives, was found after André Tchaikowsky's death at the bottom of a laundry basket, and the work was only first performed in 2021 in Warsaw.Born in Poland in 1935 as Robert Andrzej Krauthammer, André Tchaikowsky took that name as false identity when he was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. Talented young, in both piano and composition, he returned to Poland after the war to continue his studies, winning the 8th prize […]
2022-11-21 12:00:00
Robert McCarney listens to Weinberger piano music. '... a very welcome CD ...'
2022-03-10 15:00:27
Bag it up
Jaromir Weinberger’s Svanda dudák is rarely performed at all and more often than not in German rather than its original Czech, so Trove Thursday inevitably offers Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer from Dresden with Marjorie Owens, Tichina Vaughn, Christoph Pohl and Ladislav Elgr.
2020-03-30 23:00:00
Happy Birthday Bach! (Complete Organ Works - Weinberger)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Complete Organ WorksGerhard Weinberger, Historical OrgansClassic Producktion Osnabrück, CPO 777 363-2 (2008) 22 Disc set[Flac & Scans]
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