For your Friday enjoyment: A pianist for the ages, and a quintessentially French composer…. First, check out this fabulous performance from 1997 of the seemingly-ageless Alicia de Larrocha (74 at…
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Nice story/podcast from my friends at WQXR today lamenting the current state of the encore in classical music. “It’s a failure of imagination and it’s a failure of artistic expression”…
Today’s birthday to celebrate is that of American original Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Check out the nice web piece my WGBH colleague Cathy Fuller put together a couple of years ago,…
Since I’m knee-deep in Shostakovich producing the NEC Truth to Power concert at Symphony Hall for video (more on that later,) can’t help but observe that today would have been the…
16 pianists playing a single Chopin Polonaise, with even a few clams thrown in. A tour-de-force of editing, and a remarkable seven-minute-and-nineteen-second tutorial on, oh, I don’t know…technique, style, fingering,…
There are all kinds of terms to describe the period of history in between the Baroque era of Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, and the dawning of the so-called “Classical Era”…
Here’s another keyboard delight from C.P.E. Bach, this time a live concert performance by pianist Marc-André Hamelin, he of the ferocious talent, and seemingly limitless repertoire and musical curiosity. Check…
As promised, some favorites by the vastly underrated second (and in my opinion, most interesting) son of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose 300th birthday is being observed this year. For me,…
Video from our “Evening Inspired By Downton Abbey” in our WGBH Fraser Performance Studio. Melinda Whittington is the soprano giving a great reading of this bluesy Noël Coward number, with…
Still buzzing from the terrific performance at last night’s “Evening Inspired by Downton Abbey,” featuring soprano Melinda Whittington and pianist Ethan Uslan, playing classical, “jazz,” and other standards from the…