Agassiz fest lines up appealing guests
Agassiz fest lines up appealing guestsBrandon SunThis year's event celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Claude Debussy, but you'll hear other composers' works as well, including Brahms, Mozart, Dvorák, Schumann, Ravel, Mahler -- even Schoenberg. "Schoenberg's Transfigured Night is ...and more »
Birdfoot fest brings top classical musicians to New Orleans alternative venues
Birdfoot fest brings top classical musicians to New Orleans alternative venuesNOLA.comThe festival is a chance to hear repertoire that rarely travels: piano quartets by Schumann and Faure, a Dvorak string sextet, Bartok duos, the great Brahms piano quintet, and some of the work Brahms wrote for piano four-hands.and more »
The Classical Music Network
The Classical Music NetworkConcertoNetBeethoven had his “Spring” Sonata, Schumann had his “Spring” Symphony. So here's a proposal for a “Spring” concerto. Like Alban Berg, Béla Bartók wrote a violin concerto for a presumably dazzling girl of his acquaintance when he was a 25-year-old ...
'The fragrance of magnolias'
'The fragrance of magnolias'Chico News & ReviewBy Robert Speer Joaqu'n Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez is one of those works, like Dvorák's Symphony from the New World or Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, that are familiar to people who don't even listen to classical music.
HARTY: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Piano Quintet – Goldner String Quartet ...
HARTY: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Piano Quintet – Goldner String Quartet ...Audiophile AuditionThe B-flat Major Andante pastorale pays homage to Dvorak and Mendelssohn, with luscious parts for the cello of Julian Smiles and Dene Olding's lead violin. Not surprisingly, the viola part (Irina Morozova) proves no less beguiling in the richly ...