April, 2012

17 Posts
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Il Pastor Fido 1712 / George Frideric Handel – Opera in three acts
Aria : Se m’ami, oh caro (Madeleine Shaw) La Nuova Musica David Bates, direction Lucy Crowe, soprano Anna Dennis, soprano Katherine Manley, soprano Madeleine Shaw, mezzo-soprano Clint van der Linde, countertenor Lisandro Abadie, bass-baritone From Il Pastor Fido 1712 /
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Cristóbal de Morales
Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500–1553) was the first Spanish composer of international renown. Two years after his death, the Spanish theorist Juan Bermudo — primarily known for his treatise on playing the vihuela — wrote, “for composing polyphony I would
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All in the Family!
Le French May Arts Festival Hong Kong & Hong Kong SinfoniettaDaishin Kashimoto Plays Brahms14/4/2012, Hong Kong City Hall Concert hall Click here to read the concert preview “Getting Ready for the Performance”. Going to see the Hong Kong Sinfonietta is
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Marry your Violin, my Son, never a Woman!
Pablo de Sarasate and Marie Lefébure-Wély
Jean-Delphin Alard’s motivation for uttering the immortal words “marry your violin, my son, never a woman” to his most famous charge, the teenage violinist Pablo de Sarasate, might have been twofold. For one, he was rather unhappily married to the
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The Curse of the Ninth
Gustav Mahler Das klagende Lied (1880) Kindertotenlieder (1904) Symphony No. 9 (1909) Summer of 1907 came as a nightmare for Austrian-Jewish composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). His five year old daughter Maria Anna died of scarlet fever and diphtheria; he lost
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Audience Antics
Edward Elgar Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55 Musicians love audiences. The more of them there are, the merrier. Little do they know that they are as visible to us as we are to them. Audiences think
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Make Money or Art?
Within the first two months of 2012, China has hosted the London Phil, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The Philharmonia, St Martin in the Fields and the
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HASSE – Requiem in C major / Miserere in E minor
Osanna : Allegro di molto Il Fondamento Paul Dombrecht, director From HASSE – Requiem in C major / Miserere in E minor (2000) Released by PID Hasse: Osanna – Allegro di molto There was Hasse and his match “made in
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