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2024-04-22 14:50:18
Prkofiev, Menuhin, Pamphili 2024
This Week in Classical Music: April 15, 2024. Prokofiev, Menuhin and Pamphili. Classical Connect is still in turmoil, so we’ll be brief. Sergey Prokofiev, one of the most important composers of the first half of the 20th century, was born this week. The English-language wiki gives his birth date as April 27th of 1891, the Russian one – as April 23rd, and so does Grove Music. It’s even more confusing because at the end of the 19th century, Russia was still using the “old style” Julian calendar, according to which Prokofiev was born on April 11th (or April 15th). Even the English spelling of his first name differs in different sources: with an “i” at the end in Wiki, but a “y” in Grove and Britannica. None of which matters much; what is important is his undeniable talent as a composer and pianist. Prokofiev left Russia after the Revolution of 1917 […]
2024-03-29 13:43:29
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2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
[…] a school honoured by their names in 1972 known today as the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme which allows students to participate in masterclasses under the direction of renowned instructors and to perform on stage in festival concerts with world-class performers and conductors. And always striving for the best, Britten and Pears brought to the Suffolk coast a host of international stars including such world-renowned figures as the German lyric baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the American violinist/conductor Yehudi Menuhin, who, incidentally, spent most of his performing career in Britain, the Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter and the Russian cellist Mstislav (Slava) Rostropovich as well as the likes of Kathleen Ferrier, Dennis Brain, Clifford Curzon and the Amadeus String Quartet. A coterie of emerging talent made their way to Suffolk, too, that included Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström, the American pianist Murray Perahia and the English-born virtuoso classical guitarist/lutenist Julian Bream while the inaugural festival of 1948 […]
2024-01-08 19:14:32
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