Over the centuries, many of history’s most important women composers were forced to publish under male pseudonyms. Across the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, dozens of women composers adopted masculine or gender-neutral identities so their work would be reviewed
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Grigory Sokolov September 23rd, 2011 Aix-en-Provence 17th August 2011 On the 3rd of August, I saw Sokolov live at the 31st International Piano Festival of La Roque d’Anthéron. What a delightful concert it was! I have heard a plethora of superlatives about the playing of -
Orchestra in the mall September 23rd, 2011 It is Proms season again. But I am not going to describe any of those splendid concerts staged at the Royal Albert Hall. I just want to talk about a free live concert held on June 21 by the BBC -
Violin Concerto of Renewed Passion
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Yosif Kotek II September 14th, 2011Story Behind Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 Following his separation from his wife Antonina Miliukova, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) hastily fled to the town of Clarens. This small and peaceful Swiss resort village on the shores of Lake -
The Power to Overcome: The Story of Ludwig van Beethoven and Bedřich Smetana September 14th, 2011 “… For two years I have avoided almost all social gatherings because it is impossible for me to say to people “I am deaf”. If I belonged to any other profession it would be easier, but in my profession it -
Solenne Païdassi September 14th, 2011 “Solenne Païdassi has won the Baltic International Violin Competition. {…} She won because of her very intimate style of interpretation and her spontaneous, unprompted joy in playing music. She also demonstrated richness of sound and wide dynamics from subtle piano -
Joao Carlos Martins II: The passion of Martins September 9th, 2011 If Joao Carlos Martins’s life has been pretty eventful, as I mentioned in my last article, the same can be said of his music, and the hallmark of his piano playing as well as of his conducting work is his -
Impressionism to Modernism in Music and the Arts September 7th, 2011 Debussy La Mer (1905) Estampes (1903) Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune (1894) The works of the great Romantic musicians, painters and writers contributed not only to Impressionism, one of the most important artistic and cultural evolutions in the mid- -
Alexander von Zemlinsky August 31st, 2011 Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was an Austrian composer and conductor whose career was essentially in opera. He had composed a total of eight operas, in addition to songs, chamber music and four symphonies. The last of these, the Lyric Symphony