Author: VRS
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PROGRAM NOTES: BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in B minor K 27 Sonata in D major K 96 The 550-odd sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti are perhaps the most successful works to migrate from the harpsichord to the modern grand piano. Their transparent texture of simple two- and three-part keyboard writing has one foot in the imitative counterpoint of the…
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PROGRAM NOTES: AUGUSTIN HADELICH
Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006 If polyphonic music was not meant to be played on the violin, Johann Sebastian Bach didn’t get the e-mail. His Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin BWV 1001-1006 of 1720 reveal clearly the scope of his ambition in this regard. The six works in…
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PROGRAM NOTES: JUHO POHJONEN
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasy in C minor K 475 The year 1785 was a good one for Mozart. In the words of musicologist John Irving, he had become something of a ‘hot property’ in Vienna, enjoying considerable success both as a published composer and as a performing musician. But Mozart had also acquired a reputation…
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PROGRAM NOTES: TONY SIQI YUN
Johann Sebastian Bach Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 (arr. Busoni) The 19th century witnessed a revival of interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. But the sound world of the 19th century with its new spacious concert halls and louder, more powerful instruments (played by ego-driven virtuoso performers) flourished at some remove from…
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PROGRAM NOTES: DANISH STRING QUARTET
Seeing Double: The Doppelgänger Project Reprinted courtesy of Cal Performances, University of California, Berkeley, CA “Mir graust es, wenn ich sein Antlitz sehe/Der Mond zeigt mir meine eigne Gestalt” (“It horrifies me when I see his face/The moon reveals my own likeness…”). These chilling words from one of the poems in Heinrich Heine’s Buch der Lieder…
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KNOW THE SCORE
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Beyond the Concert Hall: Isata Kanneh-Mason
This is one of the videos in our Beyond the Concert Hall series. Our Beyond the Concert Hall series brings our audiences into the world of musicians and other creative industry professionals through intimate interviews. Beyond the Concert Hall featured interviews are updated here each season. You can watch all our archival interviews here.
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Beyond the Concert Hall: Steven Isserlis
This is one of the videos in our Beyond the Concert Hall series. Our Beyond the Concert Hall series brings our audiences into the world of musicians and other creative industry professionals through intimate interviews. Beyond the Concert Hall featured interviews are updated here each season. You can watch all our archival interviews here.
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Virtually VRS: Ema Nikolovska and Jonathan Ware perform Brahms, Beach, Debussy, Wolf and Ravel
This is one of our videos from our Virtually VRS series. See more of our Virtually VRS recitals here.