Newsletter Vol: 211 | 1 Nov 2018 Discover the sorrows of Angelica Catalani, immerse in more orchestral pipe dreams, and how are blackbirds portrayed by Japanese Tsugaru Shamisens?   Touring Orchestras Face Travel Hell A Piano Teacher Reflects… Lessons Learnt From Teaching Camille Saint-Saëns At the Piano   Event International Wimbledon Music Festival Founded and directed by Anthony Wilkinson, the festival is created to share the experience of hearing and meeting world class artists in the beautiful churches in Wimbledon. Since its launch in 2009, it has grown exponentially, and is now recognized as an annual feast of world-class music making in southwest London... more... Date: November 10 to 25, 2018 Country: United Kingdom website What's New The Birds Singing in Catalonia and Memories of Home Orchestral Pipe Dreams Symphonic Works with Organ II After his self-imposed exile from Spain with the defeat of the Republican government, cellist Pablo Casals started his concerts with a traditional Catalan Christmas song, El Cant dels Ocells (The Song of the Birds). The lyrics describe the joy of the birds, listed verse by verse, at Jesus’ birth... Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911) was one of the first performers and composers in a long line of French organists who took advantage of the versatility of the symphonic pipe organ. Devoted to the organ from an early age, he went to Brussels in 1860 to study with the organist J.N. Lemmens... more... more... Twistin’ the Turk The Sorrows of Angelica Catalani The piano and violin duo Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo have given any number of audience members a new way to hear music that could, perhaps, be too familiar. Here’s Mozart’s Turkish Rondo, first in its original and then with a key change... For almost 3 decades, Angelica Catalani (1780-1849) commanded the operatic stages of Europe. Her powerful soprano voice nearly covered three octaves in range, and it has been suggested “no singer ever surpassed her in chromatic scales, whether in velocity or precision...” more... more... Enjoy My music Video Forgotten records Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Cello Concerto Alla Molto Turca Igudesman & Joo Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major listen watch listen Copyright Interlude.hk 2018 All rights reserved. Important: If you are not receiving Interlude's newsletter regularly, please check your spam folder. Also add the address info@interlude.hk to your addressbook.