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Lithuanian violinist, conductor, orchestra leader and professor
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2016-02-07 01:00:00
Lithuanian violinist, conductor and teacher Saulius Sondeckis died in February 2016
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2016-02-03 17:18:58
Death of an eminent Baltic conductor
We have been informed of the death of Saulius Sondeckis, founder of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in 1960 and its conductor until closure in 2004. Sondeckis guest conducted widely across the world and made numerous recordings. He was 87.
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2014-11-24 20:21:57
Daniel Hope: How I dived into Schnittke
[…] noticing he was becoming tired, I excused myself and left. To my surprise, he asked me to telephone him a few days later. This was the beginning of a series of meetings and lengthy discussions with Alfred Schnittke which took place between November 1992 and March 1994. In August 1993 I performed the Concerto Grosso No 3 with my friend, Erik Houston, at the Lucerne Festival. The concert was conducted by Schnittke’s close friend, Saulius Sondeckis and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, who had themselves premiered the work in April 1985. It was as harpsichordist with this orchestra that Schnittke was able to travel for the first time to the West in 1977, and we were all very excited to hear rumours that Schnittke might in fact attend our concert. To our delight, he came, and talked to us afterwards at length. To play his music with him present, was a […]
2013-03-04 15:17:14
[…] Zubin Mehta/Vienna, Leonard Bernstein/Vienna Piano Concerto — Rudolf Serkin, Arthur Rubinstein/Franco Caracciolo, Martha Argerich Piano solo works — Arthur Rubinstein, Sviatoslav Richter, Martha Argerich, Murray Parahia Piano Quintet — Arthur Rubinstein/Guarneri Quartet, Rudolf Serkin et al Dimitri Shostakovich: Symphonies — Leonard Bernstein (esp. 5 & 9), Fritz Reiner (6), Evgeny Mravinsky (8, 10), Evgeny Svetlanov (7), Simon Rattle (esp. 1 & 14), Mstoslav Rostropovich (esp. 2, 3, 11), Bernard Haitink (6, 8, 12, 15), Saulius Sondeckis (13), Andre Previn (4) String Quartets — Borodin Quartet Violin Concerto — Maxim Vengerov Preludes & Fugues — Tatiana Nicolaeva Piano Concertos — Leonard Bernstein, Martha Argerich Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, Valse Triste, The Swan of Tuolena — Leonard Bernstein Karelia Suite — Colin Davis Symphonies (esp. 1, 2, 5, 7) — Petri Sakari, Leonard Bernstein, George Szell (2) Bedrich Smetana: The Moldau (Vltava)— George Szell, Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein Ma Vlast (My Fatherland — […]
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