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György Sebők
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Pianist, Artist,
Alchemist
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From Solemnity
to Paganism
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Russian Easter Festival
Overture
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Musicals and Opera
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Long-lost Siblings?
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Guangzhou Opera House Anniversary Celebration -
Boston Symphony Orchestra with Conductor Lorin Maazel
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Date: May 6, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Opera Hall, Guangzhou Opera House
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Don’t pop that zit!
Alexander Scriabin’s undoing |
The Piano Has the Last Word |
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In 1914, Scriabin was on tour in London and had slightly cut himself shaving. On 15 March he wrote, “On top of everything, a little sore appeared on my lip and gives me great pain... |
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Before Schubert and Schumann, the role of the piano in lied performances was just as a general support. With Schubert, the ultimate lieder composer, and Schumann, the ultra-romantic, the piano began to take a different role in the lied... |
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| Trains in a Classical Mode |
What If You Had 12 Trumpets?
Leoš Janáček Sinfonietta |
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Trains provide a nice rhythmic basis for music – the old chuga-chuga sound of a steam train might be replaced now with the smooth humming of electrics, but we can find music where the train meets the tracks... |
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What if you had not 2 or 3 trumpets, the normal complement for an orchestra, but 12 trumpets? Well, then you’d write the Sinfonietta. The Sinfonietta, completed in 1926, was the last orchestral work by Leoš Janáček... |
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| Selected videos |
My music |
Forgotten records |
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Christoph Pregardien & Andreas Staier perform Chopin, Troubled Waters
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Mozart, Beethoven & Schubert recital
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Belfond
Partita Æterna
for Solo violin
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