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German composer (1690-1758)
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2022-01-12 08:49:46
Panache, intensity and vivid story-telling from Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn in Modest Musorgsky: Unorthodox music at Wigmore Hall
[…] in orchestral guise, and that is their sense of imagination, boundary-crossing freedom. Katherine Broderick and Sergey Rybin's 2016 disc of Musorgsky songs on Stone Records [see my review] made a strong case for the links between Musorgsky's song output and French impressionism, notably Debussy. It is worth re-iterating what we know, as the timeline is intriguing. The young Debussy spent the summers of 1880, 1881 and 1882 touring Europe with Tchaikovsky's patron Nadezhda von Meck, acting as teacher and pianist for her daughters. Musorgsky's cycle Sunless was finished in 1874 and published that year, whilst Songs and Dances of Death was finished in 1875 but not published until 1882, though a number of Musorgsky's songs were published in the 1870s. And the Paris Conservatoire bought a copy of Musorgsky's Boris Godunuv in 1874. So, it is worth listening to these songs with new ears. […]
2021-04-23 00:41:23
We’re coming to you from the Festival de Musique de Chambre de Montréal for a special “Tchaikovsky, I Love You!” concert with the festival string orchestra. The concert also features a unique text authored by Albert Millaire featuring a reenactment of Tchaikovsky’s intimate letters to his treasured patron Nadezhda von Meck. You can watch the […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-05-04 14:19:58
Tchaikovsky 180
[…] his last three symphonies, from no. 4 to no. 6; operas like “Eugene Onegin” and “The Queen of Spades” and some other pieces are of the highest quality. And he cuts a sympathetic figure: a homosexual in a conservative Russian society who attempted to marry to please his family – with disastrous results; a wanderer, who spend many years in Europe; a social recluse, who had an unusual relationship with his major benefactor, Nadezhda von Meck, whom he never met; his many personal traumas; his death of cholera at the age of only 53 which many think was a suicide – all this endears us to Tchaikovsky. So what of our hesitancy? It has nothing to do with a lot of mediocre music Tchaikovsky had written (like his 2nd and 3rd Piano concertos, or many operas, or much of the ballet music) – not a single composer, Mozart including, had […]
2020-01-22 07:00:44
Classic Recording: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor, The Eastman Trio
Why have you not written a single trio? I regret this every day because every day they play me a trio, and I always sigh because you have not composed a single one. This rueful complaint was addressed to Tchaikovsky in a letter written in the autumn of 1880 by Nadezhda von Meck, the Russian business woman who was one of his most dedicated and long-lasting patrons. (She also gave financial support ...
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