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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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November 20 2017

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November 20 2017

ResMusica: Chopin interprété par Finghin Collins

À emporter, CD, Musique de chambre et récital Finghin Collins, pianiste irlandais connu surtout pour avoir remporté le premier prix du Concours international de piano Clara Haskil en 1999, offre un récital varié de pages appartenant à des genres différents et écrites à diverses périodes de la vie de Chopin, proposées ici en respectant la chron...


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November 20 2017

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November 20 2017

SüdKurier: Die Redaktion empfiehlt Musik, Bücher und Filme - Graziella Contratto

Weihnachts-Tipps zum Verschenken und Selber kaufen. Gustav Mahlers Musik als Essenz – das schafft der aus Überlingen stammende Dirigent Klaus Simon mit seinen Bearbeitungen für Kammer-ensemble. Die 14 Instrumente des Mythen Ensembles Orchestral spiegeln bei der 4. Symphonie nicht nur ein ganzes Symphonieorchester wider, sondern bringen die spez...


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November 15 2017

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November 15 2017

Gramophone (UK): Mozart Serenades

An hour spent with Mozart in light-music mode is always an hour well spent, and here we have not one but two hours of entertainment and pleasure. The Haffner Serenade appears to have been written as a Brautmusik (‘bride music’), commissioned by its namesake for the wedding of his sister. What we hear actually starts with the D major March, K249...


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November 14 2017

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November 14 2017

Music Web International: Mozart & Schoeck, Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas

On this Claves album, featuring a Serenade each from Mozart and Schoeck, the press information highlights how both composers were only twenty years old at the time of composition and how one hundred and thirty years separates the two works. This fascinating programme is played by the Musikkollegium Winterthur, a forty or so strong ensemble here...


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