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Swiss composer and conductor (1879-1962)
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2020-05-14 06:48:24
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival at home
[…] (just as they would on stage). There will also be guest artists, some of whom were also due to perform in the nine-day Festival, including guitarist Craig Ogden, accordion player Milos Milivojevic, video content from Gavin Bryars, and a set from folk musicians Fay Hield and Rob Harbron. For families, there is the chance to a recording of Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom, based on the hugely popular children’s book by Giles Andreae and Korky Paul. Taken from one of Music in the Round’s relaxed concerts for children aged 3 – 7 years, with presenter Polly Ives and Ensemble 360, this was originally live-streamed to Sheffield Children’s Hospital in November last year, and will be publicly available for the first time.Full details from Music in the Round's website.
2020-01-21 08:15:06
Voice & piano trio: Tom Poster & Kaleidescope Chamber Collective open Wiltshire Music Centre's 2020 season
[…] soprano and piano trio. There will also be songs by Clara Schumann, as well as Mendelssohn's Piano Trio no. 2 (the finale of which includes the chorale we know as Old Hundredth). The evening ends with Poster's arrangements of Cole Porter songs. And if the concert doesn't appeal, then on 1 February, WMC is presenting Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom, with Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives, based on the book by Gile Andreae with music by Paul Rissmann,The concert season continues with a piano recital from Benjamin Grosvenor, the City of London Sinfonia and pianist Danny Driver in Beethoven, pianist Steven Osborne in Rachmaninov and Schubert, the Doric String Quartet and the Marmen Quartet in Enescu's Octet for Strings, violinist Alina Ibragimova joins the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for Michael Haydn's Violin Concerto, and Voces 8 perform a programme moving from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary […]
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2016-11-23 10:27:34
Breaking: A Swiss radio orchestra is killed off
The Swiss Radio and Television Corporation has withdrawn financial support from the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, leading to its almost certain closure next year. The broadcaster contributes around two million Swiss francs to the orchestra’s eight million budget. The musicians have received notice that their jobs are to be abolished. There has been no prior public discussion. The decision was unexpected. Founded in Lugano in 1935, the OSI won a reputation far beyond the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. Its present chief conductor is Markus Poscher. Regular guests, at home and on international tours, include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mikhail Pletnev and Marc Andreae. The orchestra has been a fixture in Lugano’s Martha Argerich Festival, which has also been discontinued. This is a bleak day for Swiss music, and an ominous one for radio orchestras across Europe.
2016-10-18 05:12:00
[…] works of his will be played, one of them in BA. The other essential influence came from his six years as Resident Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, first with Salonen and then with Dudamel. About the Tonhalle: it started in 1862; after World War II it had eminent artists as PC: Vokmae Andreae ended his dilated tenure in 1949 and was succeeded by Rosbaud, Kempe, Dutoit, Albrecht, Eschenbach, Wakasugi, and before Bringuier, by David Zinman from 1995 to 2014. There´s a mistake in their hand programme biography: it isn´t the orchestra of the Zürich Opera, and it could hardly be: the Opera´s orchestra, called the Philharmonic, plays 250 performances a year! […]
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