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Italian Postcards (CD review)
Music of Wolf, Mozart, Borenstein, and Tchaikovsky. Quartetto di Cremona, with Ori Kam and Eckart Runge. Avie AV2436.By John J. PuccioItaly has long been a favorite destination of travelers, vacationers, history buffs, music lovers, composers, and, well, just about everyone. From Lake Como, Venice, Milan, and Verona to the North through Rome and Sicily farther south, the country has offered artists a wealth of material to work with. Such is the case with Hugo Wolf, W.A. Mozart, Nimrod Borenstein, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, all of whom were inspired by the merits of the country. On the present disc, the Quartetto di Cremona and friends present four selections by the aforementioned composers in as sunny, Italianate performances as you could want.For those of you unaware, the Quartetto di Cremona is an award-winning Italian string ensemble founded in Cremona, Italy in 2000. Their members are Cristiano Gualco, violin; Paolo Andreoli, violin; Simone Gramaglia, […]
2019-11-18 16:02:16
Merula and Ormandy, 2019
This Week in Classical Music: November 18, 2019. Merula and Ormandy. Tarquinio Merula (not to be confused with Claudio Merulo), the Italian composer of the early Baroque, was born on November 24th of 1595 in Brusseto, Emilia-Romagna. (Brusseto, a town of only 7,000, has a rich musical history: Giuseppe Verdi, who was born in the nearby village of Le Roncole, went to school in Busseto and further studied there with the composer Ferdinando Provesi; the famous tenor Carlo Bergonzi owned a hotel in Busseto, he called it I due Foscari, after an opera by Verdi in which he sung with great success. Bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni also grew up in Brusseto). Merula studied music in Cremona and worked as an organist there and in Lodi. In 1621 he traveled to Warsaw where he was offered a position of ‘organista di chiesa e di camera’ to Sigismund III, King of Poland. He […]
2019-01-13 00:00:00
Heinrichen - Manfredini : Concerti
Johann David Heinichen(1683-1729)Dresden ConcertiMusica Antiqua Köln, dir. Reinhard Goebel2 CDs [70:47] + [66:01]Recorded 1992Francesco Onofrio Manfredini (1684-1762) 12 Concerti op. 3 Les Amis de Philippe, dir. Ludger Rémy [78:42]Recorded 1998/1999 TRACKLISTJohann David Heinichen(1683-1729)Dresden ConcertiMusica Antiqua Köln, dir. Reinhard GoebelCD 1 70:47Concerto in F major (F-dur - en fa majeur) Seibel 234* 8:32[01] 1. Vivace […]
2019-01-08 02:23:00
John Malveaux: New Music Box: "Remembering George Walker"
George Walker (1922-2018) John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com writes: Violinist Gregory Walker shared this article with MusicUNTOLD ici New Music Box Devotion to a Personal Vision—Remembering George Walker (1922-2018) By Gregory T.S. Walkeron January 4, 2019 Nineteen seconds of silence are suddenly broken by timpani drums and a dissonant brass fanfare. Like the majesty of Aaron Copland’s Common Man, but with a trenchant angularity which conjures perhaps a different Americana than Copland could have envisioned. Now envisioned through the eyes of my father, the son of a West Indian immigrant, the grandson of a slave. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. The first image in Frank Schramm’s documentary Discovering George Walker is of an old Maxell cassette. Its typed label reads, “George Walker: Sinfonia No. 3.” My father delivered an envelope with this cassette to […]
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