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The Violin and Cembalo sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach are a cornerstone of the string instrument literature. My sense is that all music which followed was in some way influenced by this music by Bach. On this recording, we hear the Sonata #3, as played by violinist Yuuko Shiokawa, with the piano part performed by Sir Andras Schiff. Enjoy!
2016-05-18 01:30:00
01. - 10. Leos Janacek - On an Overgrown Path. Series I. [26'36] Andras Schiff- piano 11. - 14. Leos Janacek - Violin Sonata [17'14] Andras Schiff- piano & Yuuko Shiokawa- violin 15. - 18. Leos Janacek - Concertino [15'35] Members of the Musiktage Mondsee Ensemble (Andras Schiff- piano; Elmar Schmid- clarinet; Klauss Thuneman- bassoon; Radovan Vlatkovic- horn; Jiri Panocha & Pavel Zejfart- violins; Miroslav Sehnoutka- viola) Decca 4403132 (recorded July 1992; this USA CD release by BMG on London label 1993) (flac and scans) Recording venue: Mozarteum Orchesterhaus, Salzburg Recording engineer: John Pellowe; Producer: Michael Woolcock This fairly rare CD was intended to be one of a series of recordings associated with Andras Schiff's Mondsee Festival in Austria. In the event, only a few releases saw the light of day and this one was issued in the USA by BMG in some sort of […]
2015-12-21 16:00:59
[…] made in Zurich. He gave a series of lecture-recitals on the complete Beethoven sonatas in London. His live concert recordings for ECM also include his second traversals of the Bach Partitas and Goldberg Variations. For G. Henle, he provided fingerings for new editions of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier (published in 2006) and fingerings and missing cadenzas for a new edition of the Mozart piano concertos (begun in 2007). Schiff is married to the violinist Yūko Shiokawa. The couple have residences in London and Florence, Italy. 2 Peter Oundjian Happy 60th Birthday Peter Oundjian, born on this day in 1955 in Toronto. The youngest of five children from an Armenian father and English mother, Oundjian also claims Scottish ancestry through his maternal grandfather, a Sanderson, and the MacDonell of Glengarry clan. Oundjian is the current music director of Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Oundjian was educated in England, where he began studying […]
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2015-08-18 03:16:43
Sir Andràs Schiff – Building Bridges for the Next Generation of Pianists
[…] next, sometimes even in a sports stadium; at times it was almost humiliating.” Schiff’s participation at the Marlboro Festival marked the beginning of a new phase in his life. Not only did he admire the festival’s founder and pianist extraordinaire, Rudolf Serkin, but he also had the chance to deeply immerse himself in chamber music. On a personal level, Schiff added new friendships and connections, and he met his future wife, then Salzburg-based violinist Yuuko Shiokawa. After following her to Austria, he founded the “Mondsee-Festival“ in 1989 and six years later, together with composer and oboist Heinz Hollinger, the “Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte”. Marlboro may well provide further answers as to why Schiff has dedicated himself to supporting new talent: to him, the festival proved that performing music together, as well as the exchange between teaching and learning artists offers a potential which cannot ever be fully realized in a competition-style environment. […]
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