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In this volume, please welcome our new "In tune" contributor Marco,
who writes about the genius of Bach.
Also discover our new section "forgotten records",
and read about our "Artist of the Month" Shen Yang and
Zoey's comment on the classical scenario between Beijing and Shanghai.
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In tune:
A tale of two cities |
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Engrossing comparison
between
the two metropolises |
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Artist of the Month:
Shen Yang |
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The award-winning
bass-baritone
with promising talent |
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In tune: Bach, the composer as intellectual |
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The web of sense
that goes beyond
the stars |
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Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields
Located at the various churches with unmodified nineteenth-century pipe organs in Victoria, the festival aims to promote the rich historical background of music. Aside concerts, it also puts emphasis on picnics and dinners, especially the Festival Dinner, which serves as a popular social gathering event following evening recitals.
Date: January 14 to 23, 2011
Country: Australia
Web: http://www.ballarat.com/organs/
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Classical in Cinema
A new definition of cinema, re-live the music scene!
Date: Every weekend 2011, over 30 programmes
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A Tale of Two Cities
A tale of two cities. I have no idea when this handy name came about, but it is now used by the literati to compare pairs of cities like Shanghai and Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, and so on. So in comparing the classical music scenes in Shanghai and Beijing, I thought to create a new and original title... Read more |
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Bach, the composer as intellectual
by Marco Moraes
But all at once it dawned on me that this
Was the real point, the contrapuntal theme;
Just this: not text, but texture; not the dream
But topsy-turvical coincidence,
Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense.
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Concert Review from Geneva, by Ian Pong
A year so dominated by the economic downturn in the West and the rise of China epitomized by the Shanghai Expo in the East, few may have noticed that this year marks the 170th birthday of Pyotr Tchaikovski, the great composer from 19th century Russia, a tsarist empire spanning both East and West and symbolized by a coat of arms of a two-headed eagle. Of Ukrainian descent and educated in St. Petersburg, Tchaikovski is widely considered as one of the greatest composers in the romantic period...
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26-year-old bass-baritone Shen Yang was the winner of the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, a 2008 winner of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and a 2010 winner of the Montblanc New Voices at Stars of the White Nights Festival...
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Thanks to my friend Jef, let's listen to this wonderful performance from siblings Mari and Hakon Samuelsen. Watch the video |
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Eight French cellists perform transcription of some of the most famous melodies.
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String quartet by
∙ Giovanni Paisiello
∙ Giovanni-Giuseppe Cambini
∙ Luigi Boccherini
Performed by
∙ Quatuor Carmirelli |
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