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. The distinguished string players invited to be part of the board are: Sonia Simmenauer (Germany), chair of the jury and founder of string quartet agency Impreseriat Simmenauer; violinist Sergei Bresler (Israel), founding member of the Jerusalem Quartet; violinist Karen Shahgaldyan (Russia/Armenia), performer at some of the world’s most esteemed venues; and cellist Raphael Wallfisch (UK), winner of the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition and founding member of Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch. ’Israel has a proven artistic legacy, with musicians travelling here from all over the w...
When the UK went into lockdown in March 2020, and artists across the country found themselves suddenly looking at an empty work diary, many took on other jobs, from delivery driving to brick-laying, to make ends meet. A sizeable number of classical musicians searched for a new outlet for their ...
WTJU May 17th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves There are some things you can count on with a Bohuslav Martinu. It will be tuneful. It will have syncopated rhythms. It will have modal harmonies and unusual chord progressions. The three cello sonatas in this release check all the boxes. And, as a fan of Martinu’s music, that’s just fine with me. A lot of Czech culture is bound up in Martinu’s style. The harmonies come from the traditional music of the region. The rhythms come from the speech patterns of the Czech language. Martinu’s three cello sonata span 13 years and a world war. And yet ...
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