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2023-10-29 22:43:59
Yesterday was a pretty busy day by the time I set up and rode my indoor bike trainer for the first t
2021-01-16 06:24:00
Classical Music News of the Week, January 16, 2021
Michael Stern Joins National Repertory Orchestra as Music DirectorThe National Repertory Orchestra (NRO) announces the appointment of Maestro Michael Stern as its third music director in the organization’s 61-year history. The National Repertory Orchestra is an intensive performance and education summer festival for young professional musicians, ages 18-29. Its reputation in the classical music world is unmatched. Since 1960, NRO alumni have gone on to careers and leadership roles in the world’s most esteemed orchestras, conservatories, festivals and institutes.Mr. Stern joins the NRO as a celebrated conductor and music director of the Kansas City Symphony, Stamford Symphony in Connecticut and is the founder and artistic director of the innovative Iris Orchestra in Germantown, Tennessee. Mr. Stern launched Iris Orchestra twenty years ago as a vanguard for change in the classical music world, commissioning new music, creating a non-hierarchical ensemble, establishing a reputation for excellence on stage, supporting young musicians and […]
2020-10-13 22:16:45
The F minor prelude and fugue by Bach is from Book One of the Well-Tempered Clavier. The prelude has a definite and profound quality, like his organ chorale prelude in the same key, “Ich Ruf zu Dich”/”I call upon Thee”. The fugue, with its expressive, chromatic subject, stretches the form to the very limit and plays out like an epic struggle between light and darkness. Here is pianist Andras Schiff to play this music for you:
2020-06-09 12:00:55
Early Beethoven, late Faure and Schumann's birthday: Steven Isserlis and Mishka Rushdie Momen at Wigmore Hall
Mishka Rushdie Momen & Steven Isserlis at the Wigmore Hall (Photo from live stream) Beethoven, Schumann, Faure; Steven Isserlis, Mishka Rushie Momen; Wigmore Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 8 June 2020 An hour of vibrantly engaging music making celebrating Schumann's birthday alongside Beethoven's first sonata and late FaureWigmore Hall and BBC Radio 3's series of live lunchtime concerts continued on Monday 8 June 2020 with a recital from cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen in Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 1, Schumann's Three Romances, Op.94 and Faure's Cello Sonata No. 1. Beethoven's first two cello sonatas date from 1796 when he was visiting Berlin as part of a tour he undertook with a patron. The sonatas are dedicated to the music loving King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia, and the premiere was given by the French cellist Jean-Louis Duport (who was the brother […]
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