Wang Li Li – Unforgettable
August 30th, 2011
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Why Arnold Bax will make it a Prom night to remember
August 22nd, 2011
It’s a big night at the Proms on 16 August: it’s the Proms debut of yet another preternatural pianistic prodigy, Yuja Wang, who plays Bartok’s Second Piano Concerto, and Andrew Litton makes a welcome appearance with the Royal Philharmonic performing Prokofiev’s Fourth Symphony. None of that matters though, next to what else is on the RPO’s gigantic three-part [...]
Viktoria Mullova: from Russia in a blond wig
August 22nd, 2011
Before you even look at the repertoire on Viktoria Mullova’s latest recording, the title brings you up short. The Peasant Girl? Referring to one of the world’s most refined and glamorous classical musicians? As Mullova tells it, however, it’s a perfect fit. “My husband and a friend were joking with me one day, and they said, ‘You [...]
A masterclass with Bernard Haitink
August 22nd, 2011
‘I have been doing this job for 50 years. And you know, it is a profession and it is not a profession. It’s very obscure sometimes. What makes a good conductor? What is this thing about charisma? I’m still wondering after all these years.” Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink, 82, who would feature on any list of [...]
Aram Khachaturian
August 22nd, 2011
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան; Russian: Ара́м Ильи́ч Хачатуря́н; June 6, 1903 – May 1, 1978) (born in Tiflis, Georgia) was a prominent Soviet Armenian composer. Khachaturian’s works were often influenced by folk music of Armenia. Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was born in Tiflis, Imperial Russia (now Tbilisi, Georgia) to a poor Armenian family. In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but at first he did [...]
Edvard Grieg
August 22nd, 2011
Edvard Grieg (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt (which includes Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King), and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces. Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway on 15 June 1843. His [...]
Johann Sebastian Bach
August 22nd, 2011
Johann Sebastian Bach[1] (21 March 1685, O.S.31 March 1685, N.S. – 28 July 1750, N.S.) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.[2] Although he did not introduce new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style [...]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
August 22nd, 2011
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsaʁt], English see fn.),[1] baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart[2] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. [...]
Antonio Vivaldi
August 22nd, 2011
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso (“The Red Priest”) because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroquecomposer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe. Vivaldi is known mainly for composing instrumental concertos, especially for [...]
Ludwig van Beethoven
August 22nd, 2011
Ludwig van Beethoven[1] (baptized 17 December 1770[2] – 26 March 1827) was a German[3] composer and pianist. The crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven moved to Vienna in his early 20s, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly [...]