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Austrian composer (1825-1899)
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Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Johann Strauss II)
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2024-03-23 13:00:21
Stone Nest; Wigmore Hall; Royal Opera House, LondonPergolesi’s Stabat Mater is reimagined for the stage; the South African soprano scales the heights from Strauss to The Sound of Music; and Asmik Grigorian is a shattering ButterflyThe virgin of sorrows weeping at the cross, described in a few plain words in the Bible, remains one of the most potent images in Christianity, invested with emotion by artists across centuries. Composers have found inspiration in the medieval text Stabat Mater; some 250 settings exist, more than two dozen from the past decade alone (all listed by
2024-03-19 09:58:00
Ben GoldscheiderJörg Widmann, Beethoven, Schumann, Huw Watkins, York Bowen; Ben Goldscheider, Richard Uttley; Wigmore HallReviewed 17 March 2024200 years of music for the horn as Ben Goldscheider showcases devastating technique, lovely tone and superb musicality in a programme that engaged, intrigued and challengedHorn player Ben Goldscheider's Sunday morning recital with pianist Richard Uttley at Wigmore Hall on Sunday 17 March 2024 featured a programme that stretched from Beethoven's Horn Sonata in F right through to contemporary pieces by Jörg Widmann and Huw Watkins, with Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 and York Bowen's Sonata in E flat for horn and piano, Op. 101 representing more romantic approaches to the instrument.Writing for the horn in the 18th and 19th centuries often depended on composers developing a relationship with particular players, yet we also have to remember that the technology of the horn was developing during the 19th century, though was not always adopted […]
2024-03-14 16:30:24
Staatskapelle Halle/Bollon(Naxos)Four harps, a wind machine and a heckelphone feature on this little known score for an abandoned Nijinsky ballet. Ballet music is not something
2024-03-08 17:39:07
This week’s concerts by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra launch a significant […]
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