Articles tagged 'Mozart'
200 Ans de Musique à Versailles
The 200 years can be navigated as a prelude with three acts. The booklet suggests a Prologue followed by an Apotheosis, Divertissement and Epilogue.
200 Ans de Musique à Versailles
The 200 years can be navigated as a prelude with three acts. The booklet suggests a Prologue followed by an Apotheosis, Divertissement and Epilogue.
Album Tweets 2.
Walt Mundkowsky [September 2009.] “Andrew Rangell in Concert.” Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Thirty-three variations on a waltz theme by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 (1819-23) (4/1977 live, NYC). Maurice RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit (Ondine – Le gibet – Scarbo, 1908) (7/1985
Album Tweets 2.
Walt Mundkowsky [September 2009.] “Andrew Rangell in Concert.” Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Thirty-three variations on a waltz theme by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 (1819-23) (4/1977 live, NYC). Maurice RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit (Ondine – Le gibet – Scarbo, 1908) (7/1985
La Rondine, Orfeo ed Euridice, Thaïs, etc.
Chief among fresh discoveries is an opera the Met last produced in 1936. La Rondine (1917, rev. 1920) is a work of Puccini’s maturity, roughly contemporary with Il Tabarro whose librettist, Giuseppe Adami, it also shares.
La Rondine, Orfeo ed Euridice, Thaïs, etc.
Chief among fresh discoveries is an opera the Met last produced in 1936. La Rondine (1917, rev. 1920) is a work of Puccini’s maturity, roughly contemporary with Il Tabarro whose librettist, Giuseppe Adami, it also shares.
Golden Oldies: The Sony Leon Fleisher Reissues
To those of us of a certain age, the name Leon Fleisher conjures memories of a lavishly gifted American pianist whose Columbia and Epic recordings schooled us in many of the basic works of the piano literature.
Golden Oldies: The Sony Leon Fleisher Reissues
To those of us of a certain age, the name Leon Fleisher conjures memories of a lavishly gifted American pianist whose Columbia and Epic recordings schooled us in many of the basic works of the piano literature.
Mozart and Tan Dun at the Met (with a Detour to China)
Presumably change comes slowly to venerable institutions, especially when art, tradition and money collide.
Mozart and Tan Dun at the Met (with a Detour to China)
Presumably change comes slowly to venerable institutions, especially when art, tradition and money collide.
Never Enough String Quartets!
Is it possible to tire of string quartets? Not where I sit!
Never Enough String Quartets!
Is it possible to tire of string quartets? Not where I sit!
WAM: Crude and Cosmopolitan
Mozart could write dirty canons. Sure. Whatever.
W.A. Mozart’s Rondo for Piano, KV 511
The opening melody ascends chromatically in A minor, soon falling to two-note slurs reminiscent of raindrops on a tea-house roof.
W.A. Mozart’s Rondo for Piano, KV 511
The opening melody ascends chromatically in A minor, soon falling to two-note slurs reminiscent of raindrops on a tea-house roof.
Walt’s Ratatouille 7.
Hard on the instrument and on the players, Beethoven’s piano-four hands transcription of his Grosse Fuge is also hard to find.
Walt’s Ratatouille 7.
Hard on the instrument and on the players, Beethoven’s piano-four hands transcription of his Grosse Fuge is also hard to find.
No Longer and Not Yet
Some of us have hobbyhorses; French serialist Jean Barraqué (1928-1973) is one of mine.
No Longer and Not Yet
Some of us have hobbyhorses; French serialist Jean Barraqué (1928-1973) is one of mine.
Heavy Rotation in 2003: Czernowin, Formenti, Guerrero, Harada, Harrison, Serkin, Pollini
Possibly, a more truthful title: “Best of 2003 Based on an Arbitrary and Random Selection Assembled by Someone with Predictable Tastes.”
Heavy Rotation in 2003: Czernowin, Formenti, Guerrero, Harada, Harrison, Serkin, Pollini
Possibly, a more truthful title: “Best of 2003 Based on an Arbitrary and Random Selection Assembled by Someone with Predictable Tastes.”
Mozart’s Rondo in A minor, K.V. 511
A melancholy dance of childlike hearts, delicate steps that shimmer even as they brood — to ask an eternal question, then listen as Mozart answers in cascades of pearls.
Mozart’s Rondo in A minor, K.V. 511
A melancholy dance of childlike hearts, delicate steps that shimmer even as they brood — to ask an eternal question, then listen as Mozart answers in cascades of pearls.