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March 13 2018

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March 13 2018

ResMusica: 125 ans de musique à La Chaux-de-Fonds

Considéré comme le plus grand village du monde jusque dans les années cinquante, engoncé dans sa réputation de cité horlogère, La Chaux-de-Fonds démontre une vivacité musicale qui en fait aujourd’hui un lieu incontournable ne serait-ce que pour l’acoustique exceptionnelle de sa salle de musique que tant d’éditeurs discographiques privilégient p...


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February 19 2018

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February 19 2018

Music Web International: Sciortino, Chamber Music for Piano and Strings

The Italian pianist and composer Orazio Sciortino wrote the four works performed in this disc between 2012-13. He’s the only composer known to me to be able to wear the mantle of Krug Ambassador, the champagne firm having commissioned him to write a piece, which he has duly done: it’s due to be released by Sony. Let’s hope it’s sparkling. As h...


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January 31 2018

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January 31 2018

Pizzicato.lu: Hoch emotionale Darbietung, Shostakovich

Dass Shostakovich durch die gelinde gesagt schwierigen äußeren Umstände beeinträchtigt war und sich diese Einflüsse auch in der Musik widerspiegeln, ist gewusst. Für das Erste Klaviertrio und die Violinsonate können äußere Bezüge in der vorhergehenden Oktoberrevolution und bei der Sonate in der Niederschlagung des Prager Frühlings gesehen werde...


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January 23 2018

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January 23 2018

ResMusica: Ilya Gringolts interprète la musique de Chostakovitch

Clef du mois ResMusica (janvier 2018) Le violoniste Ilya Gringolts réussit la quadrature du cercle dans les Trios avec piano et la Sonate pour violon et piano de Chostakovitch, entre équilibre et force expressive inhabituelle. Ilya Gringolts est un artiste qui échappe aux normes commerciales, car il n’enregistre pas les partitions de composit...


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December 21 2017

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December 21 2017

Music Web International: The Violin's Delight - A Garden of Pleasure

One of the features of the new style which was born in Italy around 1600 was instrumental virtuosity. Composers started to write music for solo instruments, which explored their technical possibilities. One of the main instruments at the time was the violin. Through Italian composers travelling north the stylistic features of Italian violin mus...


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December 18 2017

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December 18 2017

Music Web International: Clara & Robert Schumann, Nurit Stark & Cédric Pescia

Schumann’s second sonata for violin and piano was written a few weeks after the first. The composer declared: ‘I didn’t like the first violin sonata, so I wrote a second, which I hope turned out better’. Clara certainly liked it, finding it ‘wonderfully original, with a depth and magnificence that I have hardly ever known before’. Also set in a...


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December 18 2017

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December 18 2017

Pizzicato.lu: Bloch Sonatas - Sehr heiß…

Ernest Blochs Erste Violinsonate – sie entstand 1920 – ist ein Vulkan. Zwischen maximaler Aktivität und Ruhephasen bleibt er bedrohlich, unberechenbar. Die israelische Violinistin Nurit Stark und der französisch-schweizerische Pianist Cédric Pescia sind eminente Vulkanologen und setzen die Energien, die freigesetzt werden, packend um. Für den Z...


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November 20 2017

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November 20 2017

ICMA 17: Mahler & Schnabel, nominee - Graziella Contratto & Rachel Harnisch

The ICMA nomination list for 2018 is available. To get the list, just click on our Nominations button which will lead you to lists sorted by labels or categories. For the 2018 awards the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has nominated 357 audio and video productions (321 in 2017, 364 in 2016) from 120 labels (119 in 2017, 1...


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November 20 2017

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November 20 2017

Gramophone (UK): Top 10 Chopin recordings (2017 update)

Our guide to the ten best ways to expand your Chopin collection One of the most loved and frequently recorded composers of all, here is our guide to the ten best ways to expand your Chopin collection No 1 Piano Concertos Martha Argerich pf Montreal SO / Charles Dutoit(Warner Classics)'Allure, brilliance and idiosyncrasy' Read review N...


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November 20 2017

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November 20 2017

Académie Charles Cros: Prix du Président de la République pour Le Petit Prince de Michaël Levinas

Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que l'Opéra en français de Michaël Levinas, Le Petit Prince (Captations live des 11 et 12 février 2015, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, Co-commande de l'Opéra de Lausanne et de l'Opéra de Lille et Co-production Opéra de Lausanne, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra de Lille, Opéra Royal de Wallonie et en collaboratio...


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