Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time
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Vol: 150 | 15 Apr 2016

Discover Rachmaninoff’s religious choral work,
listen to the song of the Mermaid Singer,
and meet with the gifted pianist Louis Schwizgebel.
 
Shakespeare and Music: Othello
The chilling masterpiece
Diabelli’s Other Variations
The Patriotic Artist’s Club
Concert Going in the
Age of High-Quality Recordings
The desired recreation
of a recording
 
Event
Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo
Established in 1964 as a tribute to the great pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, the event is considered one of the most important festival dedicated to pianism. Located in Michelangeli’s birth place Brescia, guests will be seated with enjoyment in the grandeur of the Teatro Grande in Brescia and the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo...
Date: April 25 to June 4, 2016
Country: Italy
What's New
The Mermaid Singer and Her Song Rachmaninoff and the All-Night Vigil
The not-so-young composer was working on the next piece after the work that made him a national star. The singer was an up-and-coming contralto. At the 1899 Norwich Festival, Edward Elgar unveiled his new song cycle, Sea Pictures, with the 27-year old Clara Butt as singer. According to Elgar in letters to friends, Butt ‘dressed like a mermaid,’ and also ‘sang really well...’
At the 2016 Grammy® Awards, the winner for Choral Performance was for a work that was written a mere century ago. Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, written in January and February 1915, received its premiere on 10 March 1915. When you consider the wealth and breadth of Rachmaninoff’s compositional expression, a work such as this seems to move his talents beyond those of his contemporaries...
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Ferruccio Busoni
“Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time”		 Louis Schwizgebel
from Geneva to Hong Kong
Ferruccio Busoni was the only child of two professional musicians. His Italian father was an accomplished clarinetist and his German mother a capable pianist. Towards the end of his life Busoni declared, “I bless my father for having directed me to study Bach as a child.” However, the essence of Busoni’s music lies in the synthesis of his Italian and German ancestry...
Appearing in this year’s Hong Kong Premiere Performances Recital Series, our Artist of the Month Louis Schwizgebel shares his thoughts ahead of his trip to Hong Kong about his already enviable career. Originally from Switzerland, Louis scooped second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2012...
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Enjoy
My music Video Forgotten records

Martucci: Piano Trio no. 1
III. Andante con moto

Ferruccio Busoni:
Violin Sonata No.2, Op. 36a

Weber: Grand Quintetto
in B flat major, op. 34
Rondo

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