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Mysteries: Luxembourg-born pianist Sabine Weyer on how combining music by a Soviet Russian composer and contemporary French one made a satisfying new disc
Sabine Weyer The Luxembourg-born pianist Sabine Weyer is releasing a disc this month on the ARS Produktion label, entitled Mysteries, combines the music of Russian / Soviet composer Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), celebrating his 140th anniversary, and the contemporary French composer Nicolas Bacri (born 1961), celebrating his 60th birthday. It is not an obvious pairing of composers, though neither is perhaps as well known as they ought to be and in fact it was Bacri who introduced Sabine to Mysaskovsky's music (Bacri dedicated one of his piano sonatas to Myaskovsky's memory). I caught up with Sabine by Skype to find out more. Along with many other works (his work-list is most impressive), Nicolas Bacri has written nine piano sonatas, and when Sabine first came across his music she listened to it and liked it, finding the piano sonatas fascinating. She started studying Bacri's music and travelled […]
2020-12-18 18:04:44
Born in Paris in 1961, Nicolas Bacri has composed more than one hundred works, including orchestral works, operas, cantatas, and chamber works. He studied under Serge Nigg and Michel Philippot ay the Paris Conservatoire until he graduated with the premiere prix in music composition in 1983. That same year he was awarded a two-year residency at the Académie de France in Rome. In 1991 he decided to devote himself to composition full time. Shortly after that he was awarded residence at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid (1991-1993). He taught orchestration at the Geneva Conservatory from 2005 to 2011 and is
2020-04-13 20:52:48
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Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
2019-09-30 18:24:52
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Philadelphia Chamber Music Society - Your Choice for Classical Music in Philadelphia Commissioned by the Chamber Music Society, Nicolas Bacri's "De la Douceur" has its world premiere on our first Emerging Voices program, "New Voices: Paris of the Belle Époque." The French composer muses on his musical philosophy, the enduring value of art, and the inspirations behind his new, Verlaine-inspired two-song cycle in his essay for the. The post appeared first on Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.
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