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ArkivMusic has 28 Featured Delos Titles on Sale now through August 23rd! Act now and get the following for $3 off the ArkivMusic regular price!
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Etsuko Hirose plays Balakirev, and impresses Robert Anderson. '... electrifying performance ...'
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was simultaneously the most learned of musicians and an autodidact; a great reader that for years thought he might be a wri...
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Italian opera composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo born in 1857. Also on this day... The 1775 premiere of Mozart's serenata "Il re pastore...
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The 1859 premiere of Gounod's opera "Faust" in Paris. Also on this day... The 1799 premiere of Haydn's oratorio "The Creation"...
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After meeting with Ondine and picturing the gibbet , it’s time to talk about Scarbo , the last movement of Gaspard de la nuit , work I recor...
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After meeting with Ondine and picturing the gibbet , it’s time to talk about Scarbo , the last movement of Gaspard de la nuit , work I recor...
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Olga Borodina / Dmitri Yefimov - Barbican, 7 October 2011
Which Russian diva is sticking to her red bikini briefs -...
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Barbican, London With the best Russian singers, there is such a solid foundation to their vocal technique, doubtless born of many years of strict ...
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http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Lieux/AllemagneLeipzig.html One more string quartet before the final lap... String Quartet No.8 in E minor, Op....
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Coming up, there is a recital with Thomas Steigerwald, solo piano.
KPAC's John Clare spoke with Thomas and his teacher, Kenneth Thompson at a lesso...
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Kings Place, London "Ahright," said jazz pianist Matthew Bourne, ambling on stage barefoot before fixing the piano with a quizzical stare, as if u...
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Fisher (Chandos) The Mighty Handful, or Mighty Five as they are sometimes called, are Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and César Cu...
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From The BBC Music Magazine, May 2011
by Erik Levi
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Recording: * * * * *
[...] I was particularly taken with the wonde...
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(Hyperion) Danny Driver continues his Hyperion exploration of the piano repertoire (fine York Bowen concertos and CPE Bach sonatas) with delightfu...
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Happy Birthday to César Cui who was born January 18, 1835. What? You’ve never heard of César Cui? That is not so surprising.
In the 1850-60’s in ...
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Tsintsabadze/Russian Philharmonic/Yablonsky (Naxos) Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) is one of Russian music's more puzzling figures. A pupil of Taneye...
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Pianist Jeffrey Biegel is the next artist featured in our Repertoire Report series.
If I had to pick one word to describe Jeffrey’s list it wo...
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This is part of a series of posts about Tchaikovsky's last three symphonies: you can read about the 4th here (with general background information...
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This week’s radio show is a special “Alumni Musical Mavericks” episode where we hear from several From the Top alums who have continued their musi...
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