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Wenn die Pandemie den Organisatoren der Neuen Burgfestspiele Meißen nicht wieder alles durcheinander gebracht hätte, wäre heute Abend im Dom Paul McCartneys Liverpool-Oratorium erklungen. Doch nun ist anderes geplant.
The Grammys are the music industry’s most prestigious awards. At various times, both Vladimir Horowitz and Stevie Wonder took home Grammys. Let’s revisit the Russian recipients of the award, who achieved a milestone that only a chosen few have accomplished.
Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina, fallecido este domingo a los 91 años, era uno de los compositores más destacados de la Generación del 51 y mostró durante toda su vida un compromiso total con la música.Como señaló el jurado del Premio Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento, que le fue otorgado en 2010,...
Posted by KUSC Staff · 5/20/2021 12:00 AM We all have a piece of music that takes us to a different place… that helps us make our Great Escape We asked for the stories behind the pieces that kicked off your love of classical music, so it’s only fair we share ours! Scroll down for stories from the KUSC staff. Jennifer Miller When I was a college student, I visited Eastern Europe for the first time as part of a concert tour. During the performances, two of our professors would join the college chamber orchestra for this work, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Double Concerto for Violin and Oboe i...
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, vie...