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Vol: 142 | 15 Dec 2015 |
Listen to Liszt’s virtuosic Ave Maria,
enjoy a musical Midsummer Night’s Dream,
and meet Nicolas Dautricourt, our artist of the month. |
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Unexpected
Christmas Treats
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Selection of classical
Christmas music
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Claude Debussy
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Music and the Artists
of the Fin de Siècle
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Magnificat:
Heavenly Muse
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Wondrous song of praise
for God
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Mozartwoche –
Mozarteum Salzburg
Since January 1956 the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation has invited visitors from all around the world to explore the cultivation and dissemination of Mozart’s musical heritage. The prolific composer of the classical era is celebrated every year around the time of his birthday in Salzburg, where his talent was first discovered during his early childhood... |
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Date: January 22 to 31, 2016
Country: Austria
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| Liszt and the Ave Maria |
Haydn: The Creation |
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Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was one of the few composers to take on the Ave Maria multiple times. His own religious interests would have guided him to the Ave Maria text, and when he made it his own, he carries us both into his own religious thoughts and into his virtuosic playing. His first setting, Ave Maria I, S20, was written when Liszt was coming to the end of his 8-year touring cycle of Europe... |
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“The story of the creation,” Joseph Haydn wrote in 1801 “has always been considered the sublimest and most awe-inspiring image for mankind. To accompany this great work with appropriate music could certainly have no other result than to heighten these sacred emotions in the listener’s heart, and to make him highly receptive to the goodness and omnipotence of the Creator...” |
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“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Shakespeare and Music II:
Midsummer Night’s Dream |
Nicolas Dautricourt
Delving into the unknown |
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The comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Shakespeare’s most popular works, which has spurred composers’ imaginations, is next in our ten-part series of Shakespeare’s plays. Shakespeare was a young man when he wrote this fanciful tale—two couples that become entangled in the fairy world in an improbable and hilarious series of events that transpire in the enchanted woods... |
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With the potentially huge pool of repertoire available to a concert violinist, it can be hard to find music that people don’t already have a favourite interpretation of. Introducing people to new music (even by composers they may never have heard of) is something this French violinist is passionate about. ‘Last summer I played some Boulez that I snuck into a chamber music programme. We put it in at the very last minute...' |
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Video |
Forgotten records |
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Kilar: Piano concerto
I. Preludium:
Andante con moto
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The Nutcracker –
The Waltz of the Snowflakes |
Mozart: Sinfonia concertante
in E flat major,
K. 297b – Allegro
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