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2021-02-09 22:27:45
Conductor goes berserk, but the strings ain’t watching
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2020-11-26 10:06:24
The first US female violin star has died at 92
The violin world is mourning the death yesterday of Camilla Wicks, a violin prodigy who made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at just 13 and became Sibelius’s favourite performer of his violin concerto.She recorded the Beethoven concerto with Bruno Walter and the Walton, gloriously, with Yuri Simonov. She took a break to raise […]
2020-09-21 13:22:59
Lokshin 100
This Week in Classical Music: September 21, 2020. Alexander Lokshin. Several great composers were born this week: Jean-Philippe Rameau, for example, on September 25th of 1683, or Dmitry Shostakovich, on the same day in 1906. George Gershwin was born on September 26th of 1898. Komitas, the national composer of Armenia, was also born on the 26th, in 1869, while Mikalojus Čiurlionis, who occupies a similar place in the musical history of Lithuania, was born on September 22nd of 1875. And let’s not forget Andrzej Panufnik, one of the most interesting Polish composer of the 20th century: he was born on September 24th of 1914. We’ve written about every single one of them, but this week we’d like to compensate for a significant date we missed last week. September 19th marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Lokshin, a very talented Soviet composer whose tragic life in a way […]
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