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2024-02-27 09:59:00
Classical music must not cease from exploration
Today is a poignant personal anniversary, so I have been listening to Valentin Silvestrov's Stille Lieder (Silent Songs) in the 1986 ECM recording. This morning that performance by baritone and Sergej Jakowenko accompanied by Ilja Scheps was, for me, the most sublimely appropriate masterpiece. But that is because of the personal conditions relating to today. Tomorrow, depending on the conditions, a Sibelius symphony, a Mozart string quartet, Iiro Rantala's jazz improvisations, or Steve Roach's electronica will be sublimely appropriate. Masterpieces, like every human condition, are impermanent. They come and go, and return and return - Silvestrov's Stille Lieder first featured here back in 2008, many years before the Ukrainian tragedy gave their composer his 30 minutes of fame. (Newcomers to Silvestrov's music should know that Stille Lieder are the root from which his better known masterpieces, the Fifth Symphony and Requiem for Larissa grew.) For decades classical music has been trying, without success, […]
2020-02-25 13:40:15
Olga Scheps seems poised to take on the world. A young pianist with extraordinary powers of expression, Olga has been enchanting audiences throughout Europe for several years but seems to be little known in the United States, or in the general English-speaking world. Recently, Ms. Scheps has performed either solo recitals or as concerto soloist with orchestras throughout Germany where she lives. Here is Olga Scheps, playing the music of Chopin:
2020-01-12 10:05:12
Today we have for you another promising musician in our “Introducing” series: Olga Scheps began playing her first melodies and pieces at the age of five, and she learned to play the piano in the same year as she did speaking, walking and reading. In 1992, her family moved from Moscow to Germany, Olga Scheps’ new home. The pianist is fluent in German, Russian and English. At the age of 16, she became a young student at the Cologne Academy of Music, graduating in 2013 with distinction. Olga Scheps also gained additional musical training from Arie Vardi, Dmitri Bashkirov, Andrei
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2019-09-03 14:17:00
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor – Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (HD 1080p)
[…] still more new names come along.The orchestra sets the tone for the opening week of Lucerne Festival with several symphony concerts. And at the season's end comes the grand tour. Foreign residencies have taken these musicians throughout Europe and to Asia and the USA.Source: lucernefestival.ch/en More photosSee alsoPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor – Ivan Bessonov, Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, Dimitris Botinis (HD 1080p)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Seasons – Olga Scheps (HD 1080p)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 in B minor "Pathétique" – Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (HD 1080p)
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