the set of the noteworthy arts documents
Salvatore Accardo gave his first professional recital at the age of 13, in a program that included Paganini’s Capricci. At the age of 15, Accardo won the Geneva Competition and in 1958 he became the first winner of the Paganini Competition in Genoa. His vast repertoire ranges from pre-bach to post-Berg; composers such as Sciarrino,…
At the age of 28, he became internationally recognized when “The Firebird” debuted in Paris in 1910. Three years later, the unique and scandalous “Spring of the sacred” premiered there. Fame stuck to his name and never left. Rimsky-Korsakov, said Stravinsky, was like a second father to him. Stravinsky copied some of his mentor’s things…
How is Beethoven different from all the other composers? In our opinion, he was not quite a composer. Beethoven was a cultural hero. Beethoven’s contemporary composer Ignatz Moscheles described him as: “He was short, stocky, I might add, almost athletic build. The face is wide, brick and red – only on the slope of the…
Author Sergey Strelchenko The well-tempered clavier is rightfully considered a kind of encyclopedia of Bach’s images. In the rare variety of chamber forms of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach reveals the large and complex inner world of man, his artistic and poetic images, the richest area of human feelings. Bach wrote The Well-Tempered Clavier, wishing to…
The unbelievable combination of two facets of talent: a classical drama film composer, amazed by the psychological depth and sophistication of the scores, and a pianist of a large jazz scene swimming like a fish in the ocean of improvisation. Dave Grusin’s career in contemporary music is truly one of the most wide and fascinating….
The history of music is known to many geniuses who reached the top of fame in their young years, but César Franck is not among them. His fate is a brilliant proof that life’s glory is not a necessary companion of talent, but sooner or later, recognition of true talent will come. César Franck’s homeland…
On Antoine Riboud’s private jet, they landed at Tempelhof Airport. Rostropovich played Bach’s Suites while sitting close to the former “Checkpoint Charlie” after managing to find a chair anywhere. Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974, Mstislav Rostropovich after he sheltered Alexander Solzhenitsyn at his house, watched the fall of the wall on TV in…
10th January, in 1833, Felix Mendelssohn’s cantata “Die erste Walpurgisnacht” (“The First Walpurgis Night”) premieres in Berlin. Today we discover the mystical symbolism of Mendelssohn’s choral masterpiece. Ominous, demonic, and subversive adjectives are adjectives that can describe a lot of the music of the Romantic era (especially many of the Faust scenes from that period),…
Rachmaninoff had the largest of all pianists keystroke coverage. He could cover twelve white keys at once! And with the left hand of Rachmaninov freely took a chord: c – e-flat – g – c – g ! His hands were really big, but wonderfully beautiful, the colors of ivory, without the swollen veins of…
Historic footage of the great Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet (1883-1969) rehearsing Haydn and De Falla with members of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and sharing some of his views on conducting and music (in French). Filmed in 1963. The Swiss conductor, Ernest Ansermet successively studied the clarinet, violin and brass instruments. Besides Music, he…