In classical music, the Romantic Era lasted from around 1810 to around 1910. That century gave us some of the most famous symphonies in the repertoire. Nineteenth-century composers like Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvořák, Schubert, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, and others elevated the symphony
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Krzysztof Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 “Seven Gates of Jerusalem” May 18th, 2017 Prague Spring 2017 72nd International Music FestivalClosing Concert: 2 June 2017Krzysztof Penderecki & Prague Radio Symphony For Krzystof Penderecki, born on 23 November 1933 in Dębica, Poland, music is a fundamental and essential part of the human condition. He started -
The Goblin of the Night May 17th, 2017 Maurice Ravel’s piano piece, Gaspard de la Nuit (1908), hides in its deceptively childlike title a radical piano work of great imagination. The pianist Alfred Cortot called it “one of the most astonishing examples of instrumental ingenuity ever contrived. -
The Limitless Harp: Anaïs Gaudemard May 16th, 2017 French harpist Anaïs Gaudemard started to play at age 8. Actually, she started on the piano but shortly after starting on keyboards, she met a harp teacher and started to study both instruments. By age 21, she had been awarded -
Why I Love My Instrument May 16th, 2017 My grandfather played the piano, mostly Methodist hymns and his favourite bits of Bach, Beethoven and Haydn. I suppose I was always aware of it and recall sitting next to him when he played when I was very small. It -
Forgotten Pianists: Morris Rosenthal May 15th, 2017 It’s always amazing how close the past can be. The Polish pianist Moriz Rosenthal (1862-1946) was one of the leading students of Franz Liszt, who we think of as the height of the Romantic era, and also saw some of -
The Interplay of Art, Music and Dance May 14th, 2017 “Painting can be a conversation with oneself and, at the same time, it can be a conversation with other paintings” (Jasper Johns, 1989) In this second of two articles I will briefly return to the relationship between Edvard Munch, the -
A Symphony Orchestra in Bombay May 14th, 2017 This September, the Symphony Orchestra of India, India’s only professional orchestra, is ten years old and will present a special anniversary season of canonic orchestral works at the orchestra’s home, the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on the -
Les Apaches on the Loose! May 13th, 2017 In Paris at the turn of the 20th century, a group of musicians, artists, and writers formed a group that took its name from a popular term for Parisian street criminals: “Les Apaches” (The Apaches). The Socété des Apaches formed