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Argentine composer, musician; nationalized Italian; Oscar winning film score composer
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2017-11-16 16:50:14
Sadness: Il Postino composer has died
We have been notified of the death yesterday, aged 84, of Luis Enríquez Bacalov, composer of innumerable spaghetti westerns and several small masterpieces. He won an Oscar for Il Postino in 1996 and worked with both Fellini (City of Women) and Pasolini. His Misa Tango was recorded by Placido Domingo for Deutsche Grammophon. Of Bulgarian-Jewish parentage, […]
2016-12-13 14:24:52
Magnificent Martha
Have you ever visited Lugano, in Switzerland? What a marvelous place that marries Nature, Music, and Art. Pianist Martha Argerich participates in an annual music festival there, and we get to enjoy recordings of these events. Here is a recent recording: Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2015, and the selections are as follows, recorded on three CD’s: Bacalov: Porteña Performed by Martha Argerich (piano), and Eduardo Hubert (piano), with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Alexander Vedernikov conducting. Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.56 (arr. Székely for violin & piano) Geza Hosszu-Legocky (violin), Martha Argerich (piano) Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat major, Op. 40 Alexander Mogilevsky (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Nathan Braude (viola) Sonatensatz (Scherzo from the F.A.E. sonata), WoO 2 Mayu Kishima (violin), Akane Sakai (piano) Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114 Nicholas Angelich (piano), Paul Meyer […]
2016-06-15 07:00:06
By Jacob Stockinger If there was ever a genre of music created specifically for the talented, eclectic and fun-loving musicians of the Madison-based Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, it is surely the tango. It is hard to imagine a more perfect kind of music because it seems so suited to the temperament of the BDDS and its participants. The tango and BDDS simply seem made for each other. The sexy and sensual tango has become both a popular and populist form of South American dance music. It started in brothels and then went mainstream. Then it crossed over into the classical repertoire, thanks to composers Astor Piazzolla , Carlos Guastavino and others. If you have heard the BDDS perform tangos before, you know how captivating the performances are. This weekend, the BDDS Silver Jubilee season will feature two programs with tangos, arranged by Pablo Zinger (below), a Uruguayan […]
2016-05-04 16:30:14
Argerich/Zilberstein/Hubert/Mogilevsky/Kovacevich/Meyer etc (Warner Classics, three CDs)The releases of recordings from the Progetto Martha Argerich, the festival over which the great lady presides each June in the Swiss resort of Lugano, have become one of the most reliable annual fixtures in the CD calendar. The latest compilation is more or less the mixture as before, bringing together musicians from several generations with whom Argerich has worked regularly or whose careers she has closely monitored, and featuring a range of mainstream chamber works as well as historical rarities and arrangements for multiple pianos.Argerich fans are always looking for additions to her personal discography, too, and they get a couple here. She joins Lilya Zilberstein in Debussy’s two-piano arrangement of Schumann’s Six Canonic Studies Op 56, originally written for pedal piano; and with Eduardo Hubert as the other soloist and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana under Alexander Vedernikov, she takes on Porteña (Latitude […]
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