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In tune:
Ballet, music and
memory
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Some insights
from Glenn Gould's
composition
Artist of
the Month:
Plamena Mangova
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Bulgarian pianist
with exceptional talent
and musicality
In tune:
How music affects
our emotions
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Effects of the element
that goes beyond
language
 

 
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Budapest Spring Festival
The 2011 edition opens with Donizetti's Don Pasquale, featuring Orchestra and Chorus of the Hungarian State Opera House under the baton of Balázs Kocsár...

Date: 18.3 - 03.4.2011
Country: Hungary
   
 
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Hong Kong Sinfonietta: Great Violin Concertos - Ray Chen plays Tchaikovsky
Not to be missed: the Hong Kong début of the winner of 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition...

Date: March 25, 2011

 

 
 
 
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How music affects our emotions
Have you ever heard the song Gloomy Sunday, the 1933 tune composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress? This song is said to be the saddest tune ever composed...
 
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Ballet, music and memory
Brazilian children have a game called “wireless telephone”. Perhaps it is played all over the world, but this version is very simple: you sit next to each other in a circle and the first person whispers a message, a few sentences long, into the next person’s ear...
 
 
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Alfred Brendel: 'I am a pessimist who enjoys being pleasantly surprised'
As he is feted with a lifetime achievement award, the peerless concert pianist Alfred Brendel reflects on life two years after retirement – the pleasures of art, going to concerts, the sonatas he still plays at home...

 

 
 


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Born in 1980, Bulgarian pianist Plamena Mangova is the Second-Prize winner of the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition. This award confirms her exceptional talent, which has also been recognised by a prestigious Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2007 for her first CD...

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Enjoy Glenn Gould's fantastic composition
"So you want to write a fugue?"
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The monumental Art of Fugue arranged by the musicians of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
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Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, op. 44

Performed by
-Friedrich Wührer, piano
-Heinrich Hollreiser, conductor
-Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra

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