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Elgar & JS Bach: Violin Concertos
Most of you already know that I am crazy about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. And you should also know th...
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Royal Festival Hall, London This concert marked Nigel Kennedy 's return to what he describes as "probably the greatest violin concerto of them al...
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The 1908 premiere of Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole in Paris. Also on this day... Austrian composer, conductor Eduard Strauss born...
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This past weekend, about a half hour before the New York Giants and New England Patriots kicked off Super Bowl XLVI, Chicago Bass Festival III was ...
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I had the pleasure of attending my second Philmore Ensemble concert last night and I enjoyed this one even more than the first. They were both h...
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Violin virtuoso Geza Hosszu-Legocky and cellist Rodin Moldovan with Johan Halvorsen's passacaglia on a theme by Handel.Johan Halvorsen
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Royal Albert Hall, London The string-playing Capuçon brothers don't always come as a pair, but when they do they can be quite some team – as they ...
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Norwegian violinist and composer Johan Halvorsen was born on this date in 1864. He didn’t achieve quite the fame of Edvard Grieg, Norway’s best-kno...
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Johan Halvorsen’s music is one of the jewels of the Norwegian orchestral repertoire, and yet he is as under-appreciated at home as he is [...]
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Time was when Johan Halvorsen’s Entry March of the Boyars (1895) was the kind of orchestral lollipop you couldn’t get away from, rather like [...]
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