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In tune:
Jian Wang
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Composers of the
Month:
Franz & Karl
Doppler
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My music:
Ombra cara -
Opera arias
by Handel
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A gifted musician of
talent, authenticity
and passion |
Two great flautists
and composers in the
Romantic period |
Bejun Mehta's
gentle rendition of
an aria from Agrippina |
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Singapore Sun Festival
 As an award-winning “Leisure Event of the Year”, the Singapore Sun Festival is in its 3rd anniversary this year. Aiming to promote “The Art of Living Well”, the event features a programme that covers various art forms. Being a global lifestyle brand, the Festival has also expanded to cover annual celebrations in Cortona, Italy and Napa Valley of America… read more
Date: October 29 to November 7, 2010
Country: Singapore
Website: http://singaporesunfestival.com/2010/
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Dragon Double – Cho-Liang Lin and Wang Jian
Date: November 12 to 13, 2010
Two great Chinese musicians join hand to play Brahms' Double Concerto... read more
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Franz and Karl Doppler
Albert Franz Doppler (October 16, 1821 – July 27, 1883) was a flute virtuoso and a composer. Born in Lemberg, Franz received flute lessons from his father Joseph Doppler, who was an oboist, and made his debut as a flautist at the age of 13. Franz formed a flute duo with his brother Karl, and they became quite a sensation throughout Europe.
In 1838, both became members of the orchestra of the German Theater in Budapest. At the age of 18, Franz was already the first flautist at the opera... read more
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Jian Wang - A Gifted Musician of Talent, Authenticity
and Passion
 The first time I ‘met’ Jian Wang, it was through the documentary ‘From Mao to Mozart’, an exceptional award-winning account of the musical journey taken by violinist Isaac Stern through China in 1979. In it, little ten year old Jian performed in front of one of the most famous artists in the world with composure and focus… read more
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Would They Sound as Sweet by Other Names?
 REVIEWING Juilliard415 recently, my colleague James R. Oestreich puzzled over the name of this new period-instrument band and that of another Juilliard group, Ensemble ACJW. The meaning of the names didn’t stop him: as someone with a longstanding passion for early music, he would immediately have recognized 415 as an allusion to Baroque pitch. The note A is believed to have been tuned, on average, to something closer to 415 cycles per second than to today’s standard... read more
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Ombra Cara - Opera Arias by George Frideric Handel
Another outstanding recording by René Jacobs with the American countertenor Bejun Mehta... listen
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Franz Doppler:
Fantaisie pastorale hongroise
Enjoy the beautiful presentation by flautist Denis Bouriakov... watch the video
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