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2022-02-21 14:50:04
Handel, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: February 21, 2022. Handel and more. George Frideric Handel, one of the greatest composers of the Baroque era, was born on February 23rd of 1685. Interestingly, till about the second half of the 20th century, he was known mostly for his several orchestral works and oratorios, Messiah being the most famous. In reality, Handel was the greatest opera composer of the era and had written music in all genres of the time, including instrumental, chamber and vocal. His reputation is still lower outside of the English-speaking world, where it is on par with Bach’s. We’ve written about Handel many times, here, for example two years ago, with his opera Rodelinda being the focus, and here, about his early years in London. Handel was a fascinating figure, worldly and sophisticated; he was also a virtuoso performer on the keyboard and the violin and wrote for both […]
2021-02-15 15:28:24
Pianists_February-2021
This Week in Classical Music: February 15, 2021. Pianists. Several pianists of note were born this week and several more just a couple of days earlier. Some of them left us a rich audio record of their art so we can judge their talent for ourselves, but of the ones who were born in the earlier era we know mostly from the effusive descriptions by their contemporaries. Leopold Godowsky and Ignaz Friedman, both Polish Jews, were born on the same day, February 13th, Godowsky in 1870, Friedman in 1882. Godowsky is better remembered these days, partly because of his compositions (especially the piano arrangements), but also because of his pupils, one of whom, Heinrich Neuhaus, continued the legacy through his own numerous pupils, Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels among them. Godowsky’s last acoustic recording was made in 1928, and many of the earlier ones were made on a piano roll, […]
2020-07-17 21:00:18
Claves - Gieseking - Kogan - Casadesus - Abbado - Milstein - Cliburn
Felix MendelssohnViolin ConcertoZino FrancescattiOrchestre National de l´ORFTAntal DoratiLausanne 1972 Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Claudio Arrau RCO Amsterdam Montreux 1959 Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 Byron Janis Orchestre National de France Erich Leinsdorf Lausanne 1975 W. A. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 Robert Casadesus Orchestre National de l´ORFT Jean Martinon Lausanne 1971 Franz SchubertComplete SymphoniesFour Overtures Saarbrucken RSO Marcello Viotti Recorded 1992 Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Van Cliburn Gurnezich Orchester Koln Wolfgang Sawallisch Montreux 1967 W. A. Mozart Oboe Concerto F. J. Haydn Sinfonia Concertante Navarro - Ahss - Pfiz - Santana Recorded 2013 W. A. Mozart Piano Concerto […]
2020-06-01 14:14:59
Martha Argerich 2020
This Week in Classical Music: June 1, 2020. Argerich. Our apologies to the devotees of the music of Georg Muffat, if there are any. We’re not going to write about him, even though his birthday is today (he was born in 1653); however, you can check our earlier entries about himhere and here. Neither will we write about Mikhail Glinka, also born on this day, in 1804, Edward Elgar, born June 2nd of 1857 and beloved by the English, or Aram Khachaturian, the pride of the Armenians. Khachaturian was born on June 6th of 1903 in Tbilisi into an Armenian family; Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, had a large Armenian population at the time. He eventually moved to Moscow and lived there for the rest of his life and only visited Armenia on several occasions. He was affected by the Armenian folk tunes, though, which he loved and collected on […]
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