@stevefoerster@classicalmusic Two degrees in music (admittedly they’re in conducting and not history or musicology). This looks quite legitimate and worthy of study. Thanks for posting this.
He conducted my very favourite interpretation of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis in Gloucester Cathedral. I will watch it tonight in memoriam for him.
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"Im besten Falle werden Stradivaris von Virtuosinnen und Virtuosen wie Anne-Sophie Mutter und David Garrett gespielt. Doch viele der Meisterstücke liegen als Anlageobjekte in Safes verschlossen. Und natürlich weckt ihr finanzieller Wert auch die Begehrlichkeit von Kriminellen. So sind vermutlich die meisten Geigen, in denen das Label "Stradivari" klebt, eine Fälschung."
R.I.P. Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024). One of the greatest pianists and musicians I had the privilege to hear - and to hear regularly ar that. Perhaps only Daniel Barenboim has been so constant a pianist companion throughout my musical life. I heard him in music from Bach to Boulez and never failed to learn from him, to be inspired: above all in his beloved Chopin and Beethoven. This is above all how I shall remember and ever revisit him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0JEuFiqXO8@classicalmusic
When Bluebeard's husband comes to dinner: last minute changes at English National Opera lead to a unique, remarkable interpretation of Bartók's great study of marital disintegration - unsettling, deeply homoerotic, and utterly spellbinding
@TimAshAsh@classicalmusic thank you for sharing this and for writing the review. I really enjoyed listening to this and will look out for your reviews in the future
100 years ago today, music's first twelve-note work (as opposed to containing some twelve-note writing), Schoenberg's Suite, op.25, was premiered by Eduard Steuermann in Vienna, in the Konzerthaus's Mozart-Saal. Here is the first movement, played by Maurizio Pollini. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy6t8yXPcSQ@classicalmusic
This sounds great to me. I did, almost, manage to play some of his piano pieces many years ago. It’s fascinating how melodic they become once there’s familiarity.
I wonder what it was like to hear this for the first time, a 100 years ago, when there was nothing else like it to gently ease you into this new experience.
I just donated to Tony Silvestri's recovery fund as he recovers from Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Tony is really close to his US$50,000 goal to help cover his crazy American medical costs and is a genuinely wonderful human being.
He wrote the poetry to some of my favourite choral works, like Ola Gjeilo's "Across the Vast, Eternal Sky", "Luminous Night of the Soul", and Eric Whitacre's "The Sacred Veil", "Sleep", and "Lux Aurumque".