Kholodenko’s Comic Keyboard Sensibility
Vadym Kholodenko (file photo) The playing of the 28-year-old Ukraine-born pianist Vadym Kholodenko, gold-medal winner of last year’s Cliburn Competition, is already so pellucid, so colorful, so close...
View ArticleCarl Maria von Weber, Konzertstück f-moll für Klavier und Orchester, Op.79....
Carl Maria von Weber, Konzertstück f-moll für Klavier und Orchester, Op.79. Alfred Brendel & LSOWordpress Sphere All the news about classical music and opera in press and media
View ArticleWonderful Schubert.
Schubert: Works for Violin, Cello and Piano. For me, the chamber music composed by Franz Schubert is always a special experience. I find it moving, highly emotional, intimate, often sad, and always...
View ArticleTreading on hallowed ground: the challenge of maintaining fine pianos after a...
Originally posted on Arioso7's Blog (Shirley Kirsten) : I kept this controversial blog topic in my back pocket for safe keeping until a close friend fired off an e-mail with a link to a recent movie...
View ArticleClassical music: Can you sing? Famed diva Jessye Norman thinks you can -– and...
By Jacob Stockinger We have just come through Christmas and the holiday season where the instrument of choice – quite appropriately – is the human voice, both solo and in choruses. Do you sing? Can you...
View ArticleClassical music: Can young performers do justice to great and mature...
By Jacob Stockinger There are so many gifted young professional musicians on the concert stage today. And yet many of them have doubts about performing mature and late masterpieces by such great and...
View ArticleClassical music: Can young performers do justice to great and mature...
By Jacob Stockinger There are so many gifted young professional musicians on the concert stage today. And yet many of them have doubts about performing mature and late masterpieces by such great and...
View ArticleClassical music: Can young performers do justice to great and mature...
By Jacob Stockinger There are so many gifted young professional musicians on the concert stage today. And yet many of them have doubts about performing mature and late masterpieces by such great and...
View ArticleBrendel To Perform Faculty Recital At Lee Thursday
The Lee University School of Music will present Dr. Ron Brendel, associate professor of voice, in a faculty recital on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Squires Recital Hall. via Topix - Opera All the news...
View ArticleJust in: Boulez names subs at Lucerne
The ailing Pierre Boulez, 90 next month, has nominated the conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and the composer Matthias Pintscher to replace him at this summer’s Lucerne Festival Academy. Andris Nelsons and...
View ArticleSo Near, Yet So Far Away
In tonal harmony, there is a concept of distance between keys. Sometimes we talk about two keys being very closely related to each other. At different times we describe two key centers as being very...
View ArticleAnd the 2015 Karajan Prize goes to …. a man called Thomas
Last year, the 50,000 Euro prize was awarded by the Baden-Baden Festpielhaus, amid expressions of mutual esteem, to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Ah wie schoen… Before that, the prize went to...
View ArticlePoetry beyond words - Nash Ensemble Wigmore Hall
The Nash Ensemble's 50th Anniversary Celebrations at the Wigmore Hall were crowned by a recital that typifies the Nash's visionary mission. Above, the dearly-loved founder, Amelia Freeman, a quietly...
View ArticleThe musicians’ hand doctor has died
Kit Wynn Parry, author of The Musician’s Hand and a rheumatologist who treated John Williams, Alfred Brendel and many others for upper limb pain, has died at the age of 90. He was among the founders of...
View ArticleVirtuoso Partners: Batiashvili and Lewis
Lisa Batiashvili (file photo) In her first Celebrity Series and Jordan Hall appearance this past Sunday, violinist Lisa Batiashvili joined pianist Paul Lewis, whose recitals for the Celebrity Series...
View ArticleEarthly Beauty: Schumann Essentials
A variety of the great Saxon master's most beloved works - in fact, all of his quintessential masterpieces are offered here, with the exception of some String Quartets and the Szenen aus Goethes Faust....
View Article10 Classical recordings of note
I suppose this could be seen as a followup to my pop music post , although a draft of this has been sitting around for quite some time. For the aficionado of classical music, there is an added layer...
View ArticleSecond Viennese School Essentials # 9 - The Great Interpreters
Presenting another big section on the New Viennese School from my collection, and it's a pleasure to re-discover many treasures in their original CD issue from the 80s, the 90s and more recent ones....
View ArticleNew Classical Box Set: Alfred Brendel Concerto Recordings
Alfred Brendel is one of my favorite pianists, and since his retirement a few years ago, I've been expecting a big box set of his works. But Brendel doesn't seem interested in that exhaustive approach,...
View ArticleSome of My Features for the "Rough Guide"
Again, just a few “representative samples” for (I hope) your delectation and delight. Click each one to read and enlarge. ROBERT SCHUMANN Schumann, a middle-class boy from the provinces, occupies one...
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