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Vol: 132 | 15 Jul 2015
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Immerse yourself into the special “Proms atmosphere”,
listen to the voices of the Conservatoire de Paris,
and appreciate the art of organ restoration.
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Kinds of Conductors
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Variety of Styles
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Amy Beach
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Great Women Artists
Who Shaped Music
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Music and Art:
Rembrandt
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A New Understanding
of Portraiture
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Verbier Music Festival
Founded by Swedish concert organizer Martin T:son Engstroem in 1994, the event is an annual international music festival that takes place in the mountain ski resort of Verbier, Switzerland. Apart from featuring concerts staging international soloists, the festival also nurtures young musicians through its Verbier Festival Orchestra and Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra... |
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Date: July 17 to August 2, 2015
Country: Switzerland
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| Students and Teachers |
Of Proms and Promming |
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School’s out for summer! Well, formal school, but practicing continues on forever. We know how influential our teachers can be so we thought we’d look at teachers of the past and see how curiously far they reach into the present. One of the most important pianists of the 19th century was Franz Liszt and he also had a substantial reputation as a teacher... |
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The 2015 BBC Proms start in two weeks’time. As a child and teenager, I used to go to the Proms every year with my parents, who would pour over the programme as soon as it was published. I heard a wide variety of music, and I loved the vast scarlet-and-gold interior of the Royal Albert Hall, its plush red seats and that special “Proms atmosphere”... |
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| Organ Restoration — A Lifelong Calling |
Voices of the Conservatoire de Paris I |
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Master Organ builder Wolfgang Rehn, (who, incidentally, happens to be my very own brother) formerly director of organ restoration at Kuhn Organ Builders, of Männedorf, Switzerland had started his career as a designer and builder of new organs... |
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The Conservatoire de Paris has given voice to composers ranging from Berlioz to Boulez, from Ravel to Debussy and from Fauré to Messiaen. Yet for every famous composer there are literally hundreds of aspiring voices that history has long forgotten, but that probably deserves to be heard again... |
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| My music |
Video |
Forgotten records |
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Beethoven: Neue Liebe,
neues Leben No. 2, Op. 75
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Areta Zhulla and Taisiya Pushkar
Elgar: Salut d’Amour
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Fauré: Nocturne No. 6
in D flat major, op. 63
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