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JoAnn Falletta to Conduct Three World Premiere PerformancesThe Buffalo Philharmonic led by JoAnn Falletta will perform three world premieres commissioned by the orchestra this Spring at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York: Kenneth Fuchs’s Point of Tranquility (Sat. Mar. 19 & Sun. Mar. 20), inspired by abstract expressionism; Russell Platt’s Symphony in Three Movements (For Clyfford Still), (Sat. Apr. 23 & Sun. Apr. 24), a musical interpretation of abstract impressionist works by Still that hang in Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Wang Jie’s The Winter that United Us (Sat. June 11), celebrating the City of Buffalo. The BPO opened the season in September with the world premiere of Daren Hagen’s Bandana Overture.Falletta, who has garnered international praise as an advocate of new and lesser-known music, has introduced over five hundred works by American composers, including well over 100 world premieres. She remarks “Orchestral music is a beautiful continuum, stretching back over three […]
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2021-03-27 21:33:00
Christophoros Petridis: Violin recital – Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall, 28-30.03.2021 (Premiere: 28.03.2021, 20:30, Live streaming)
Christoforos Petridis (Photo by Amanda Protidou) Christophoros Petridis is one of the most awarded greek violinists of the young generation – at 16 years old – with distinctions, awards, prizes and medals at important Greek and international competitions. Highlights of his career include the First Absolute Prize Winner award and the Best Beethoven Performance Special Prize in the Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso competition, as well as his participation in the 14th Wienawski - Lipinski competition (Poland). His Megaron recital has it all, from Bach for solo violin and Beethoven's charming Spring Sonata to the dazzling pyrotechnics of Paganini, Wieniawski and Sarasate. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) ♪ Partita No.2 in D minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 (1717-1720) iii. Sarabanda Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)♪ Violin Sonata No.5 in […]
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2021-03-08 11:24:00
Franz Schubert: Octet in F major – Musicians of Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra – Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall, 11-13.03.2021 (Premiere: 11.03.2021, 20:30, Live streaming)
Like comparable works by Spohr, Hummel and others, Schubert's irresistible Octet is a late offshoot of the eighteenth-century tradition of serenades scored for mixed wind and strings. And together with the B flat Piano Trio, D.898, it comes closer than any of his other late instrumental works to the popular image of the companionable, echt-Viennese composer pouring out a stream of spontaneously inspired melody. We owe its existence to Count Ferdinand Troyer, a talented amateur clarinettist who was chief steward at the court of Beethoven's friend and pupil, Archduke Rudolf. Early in 1824 the count proposed that Schubert write a follow-up to Beethoven's Septet, which to its composer's intense irritation had become a runaway success. (When Beethoven learnt of its triumph in England he was heard muttering that the work should be burned.) Schubert duly obliged, adding a second violin to the Septet's line-up of clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, […]
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2021-02-28 12:20:00
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C major, K.299/297c | Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K.191/186e | Violin Concerto No.4 in D major, K.218 – Musicians of Camerata-Orchestra of the Friends of Music, Markellos Chrisykopoulos – Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall, 03-05.03.2021 (Premiere: 03.03.2021, 20:30, Live streaming)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C, K.299/297c in 1778. It is one of only two true double concertos that he wrote, as well as the only piece of music that Mozart wrote that contains the harp. It was commisioned by Adrien-Louis de Bonnières, duc de Guînes, for his use and for that of his older daughter, Marie-Louise-Philippine. At the time, the harp was still in development, and was not considered a standard instrument, and Mozart's opinion of it was at best dubious, as he never again composed for it. In fact, the harp part appears to be more like an adaptation of a piano part. The piece is essentially in the form of a Sinfonia Concertante, which was extremely popular in Paris at the time. The piece is one of the most popular such concerti in the repertoire, as well as often being […]
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