Franz SchubertString Quartet No. 14 in D minor (“Death & the Maiden”) Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet is a sombre work, with all four of its movements set in a minor key. It takes its name from the … Continue reading
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A sold-out performance for the Jussen brothers
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We're looking forward to welcoming pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen to our stage at the Playhouse this Sunday. The concert is sold out (we have a wait list for tickets: call us at 604-602-0363 or email us if you'd like to be added to the list). Seated at a single piano, this remarkable pair of Dutch...Another coup for Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Congratulations Sheku! 👏
Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes UK Album Chart history by entering the Top 10
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Kanneh-Mason becomes the first cellist in the history of the UK Official Album Chart to break into the Top 10 and the first British classical instrumentalist in 30 yearsHey piano lovers, check out this week's e-news...
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In the words of the great Irving Berlin: I love a piano. I have piano on my mind because I’m still on a high after the Li brothers’ brilliant performance at the Playhouse on Sunday. Despite the inclement weather, George and Andrew Li played to a full house, and our next concert this month, featu...PROGRAM NOTES: PAUL LEWIS
Posted onFranz Joseph Haydn Sonata in E minor Hob. XVI:34 It is unusual to encounter a sonata in a minor key from “Papa” Haydn, a composer best known for his chipper disposition. But his Sonata in E minor likely dates from … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: DANISH STRING QUARTET
Posted onLudwig van Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 In the Napoleonic era, when a Viennese aristocrat was thinking of entertaining friends at home, he might pop down to the local shop to pick up a six-pack—of … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: FILIPPO GORINI
Posted onLudwig van Beethoven Sonata A flat major Op. 110 Beethoven’s penultimate piano sonata is remarkable for the utter simplicity of its musical ideas and the directness with which they are expressed. The most obvious late-period features of this work are … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV
Posted onRichard Wagner Isolde’s Liebestod arr. Franz Liszt The 19th century in Europe was an age in which psychological states went mainstream in the arts, becoming a particularly powerful stimulus for musical expression. A new genre, the nocturne, for example, captured … Continue reading
Notice of the Vancouver Recital Society’s AGM
Posted onNOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS OF THE VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY (the “Society”) The Board of Directors of the Society hereby gives notice that the Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Sunday, February 10, 2019 at … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI
Posted onRobert Schumann Waldszenen Op. 82 It is not by chance that Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Der Freischütz, the founding work of German musical Romanticism, is set in a forest. Nor is it a coincidence that German Romantic poets from … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: PAUL LEWIS
Posted onJohannes Brahms 7 Fantasies Op. 116 If the word fantasy implies improvisation and free association of thoughts, then the collection of three capricci and four intermezzi that Brahms published under the title Fantasien in 1892 are misnamed, as they are … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: SIR SIMON KEENLYSIDE
Posted onJohannes Brahms Songs from Opp. 6, 72, 86 & 96 It may be surprising to learn that while Brahms is universally revered as a giant of 19th-century instrumental music, he is often listed as one of the lesser composers of … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: ANDREA LUCCHESINI
Posted onDomenico Scarlatti Six Sonatas K 491 – K 454 – K 239 – K 466 – K 342 – K 146 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 … Continue reading