Für Kenner und Liebhaber
What is it like to be a son of the musician of all times and still practise the same profession?
What is it like to be a son of the musician of all times and still practise the same profession?
This unparalleled composition of Ponce is virtually an homage to the guitar and brings out the utmost multiplicity of colours. Nonetheless, a purging melancholy lingers over the whole work.
If Wertheimer hadn’t walked past room thirty--three on the second floor of the Mozarteum twenty-eight years ago, precisely at four in the afternoon, he wouldn’t have hanged himself twenty-eight years later in Zizers bei Chur, I thought.
The collection contains both very popular items (like The Dream) and true small masterpieces (like the scene of a child falling asleep – Kind im Einschlummern). Claude Debussy in his collection of six miniatures Children's Corner takes a similar look. However, rather than idealizing the world, he watches it closely from the perspective of his small daughter Chouchou's regular playmate.
This unusual recording debut of a 19-year-old pianist was made just before the last Chopin Competition.
A very interesting selection of pieces for guitar and a real panorama of the history of solo guitar music, from the old masters.
Featuring prominently in the prolificacy of Bach’s compositions are three suite cycles, each six in number – French Suites, English Suites and Partitas.
The soloist is Wladyslaw Klosiewicz, one of the most distinguished harpsichord-players today. His refined musicality, subtle and perfect technique and absolute artistic taste are a guarantee of success for his interpretations.
The wide range of moods and forms presented completes the picture of Grychtolowna's talent. The album includes also her most recent recordings made in 1999 with the Symphonic Orchestra of the National Philharmonic under Kazimierz Kord.
As the title promises, the record presents various colours of the guitar: the Argentinian milonga and tango (so typical of Astor Piazzola), subtle references to Chopin in the compositions of Alexander Tansman, Spanish climate in Joaquin Rodrigo's music, blues pastiche by Nikita Koshkin, and lastly, the most modern effects in Roland Dyens's "Libra Sonatine" with the use of the whole-tone scale.