April, 2016

40 Posts
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Ferruccio Busoni
Music is the gate between the earthly and eternal world In 2016 we celebrate the 150th birthday of Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni (1866-1924), one of the most talented and controversial piano virtuosos active during the second half of the
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Irish Mist
John Field and Adelaide Victoria Percheron
She was described as “a tiny little person, perfectly proportioned and extremely graceful, with lively expression and half-closed eyes, which suggested the wit and malice of a ‘petit diable bleu… She also possessed a coquettish magnetism, which attracted men towards
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Minors of the Majors
Gustav Mahler: Piano Quartet in A Minor
“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening!
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Rachmaninoff and the All-Night Vigil
At the 2016 Grammy® Awards, the winner for Choral Performance was for a work that was written a mere century ago. Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, written in January and February 1915, received its premiere on 10 March 1915. When you consider
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Diabelli’s Other Variations
It’s one of those things – you come up with a great project, you get a lot of people involved, they give you brilliant stuff and then one person comes along and trumps everything. And so it was with Anton
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Concert Going in the Age of High-Quality Recordings
“The paradox of recording is that it can preserve forever those disappearing moments of sound but never the spark of humanity that generates them” (Alex Ross)
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AUBERT, L.: Sillages / Violin Sonata / Habanera / Feuille d’Images
Sillages Op.27 No.1. Sur le Rivage From AUBERT, L.: Sillages / Violin Sonata / Habanera / Feuille d’Images (2015) Released by Grand Piano Aubert: Sillages Op.27 – No.1. Sur le RivageA pupil of Fauré, Louis Aubert moved in the same
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Louis Schwizgebel
from Geneva to Hong Kong Appearing in this year’s Hong Kong Premiere Performances Recital Series, our Artist of the Month Louis Schwizgebel shares his thoughts ahead of his trip to Hong Kong about his already enviable career.
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