Angelo Yu gives a scorched-earth performance of the Scherzo from Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1
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NEC Artist Diploma candidate Xiang “Angelo” Yu offers a stunning performance of the Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1
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…
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,…
Extraordinary. Dr. George Horner, Terezin and Auschwitz survivor, performing music he played at at the Terezin concentration camp seven decades earlier. Only this time, he’s at Symphony Hall in Boston,…
Passion, devotion, and a wealth of invention…at Easter time I am drawn to the remarkable set of the 15 “Mystery” (sometimes called “Rosary”) sonatas by the 17th-century composer Heinrich Ignaz…
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,…
Rummaging around in the proverbial shoebox of old photos from an old Euro vacation, i ran across a Throwback Thursday-worthy shot of me tickling the ivories on Antonín Dvořák’s own…
What makes the mega-hit “Happy” by Pharrell Williams so darned….happy? Been wondering that question myself, so it was nice to see a story in the Guardian that puts the question…
….with a fond look back to one of our highlights of 2013, hosting the Tokyo String Quartet for their final concert in Boston – a joint presentation with the Celebrity…