Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV 1008 The instrumental suite, with its predictable allemande-courante-sarabande-gigue sequence of dances and its un-predictable addition of various galanteries (minuets, bourrées, gavottes, etc.), was a staple of the Baroque. Arising … Continue reading
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Limited tickets remain for the Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Vogt Trio's performance this Sunday, and a new Music for Munchkins concert has just been announced. Here's what's happening at the VRS...
Limited tickets available for the Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Vogt Trio
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This Sunday, we present our final concert of the 2018-2019 Season: the Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Vogt Trio at the Vancouver Playhouse. We have a limited number of tickets left for this performance — so if you'd like to join us, don't delay! The program includes pieces by Mozart, Shostakovich, and Schumann..."Fans of exceptional chamber playing have a major event to look forward to at the end of this season: a performance for the Vancouver Recital Society by the Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff/Vogt Trio."
Read David Gordon Duke's preview in today's Vancouver Sun...
Making your own family: Thrilling piano trio 'put on this earth to play together'
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The trio’s second Lower Mainland performance as a unit offers a chance to hear them tackle major repertoire by Mozart, Shostakovich and Schumann.In this week's e-news: Leila's recent visit to Düsseldorf's Pierre Boulez Saal, Andrew Tyson's brilliant Canadian recital debut, and the important role Notre-Dame cathedral has played in the history of classical music.
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There it is, projected on a large screen above the stage, in bold pink and white print. Fancy putting me on a panel called “There is Life in the Old Dog”! The IAMA (International Artist Managers' Association) Conference I attended last week in Düsseldorf was exciting, informative, and thoroughl...PROGRAM NOTES: GEORGE LI
Posted onFranz Joseph Haydn Sonata in B minor Hob. XVI:32 It is not often that you catch the congenial, ever-chipper Haydn writing in a minor key. But minor keys were all the rage in the 1770s, the age of Sturm und Drang … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: ZHANG ZUO
Posted onLudwig van Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor WoO 80 The theme that Beethoven chose for his 32 Variations in C minor (1806) has a Baroque feel to it, with its chaconne-like harmonic pattern in the left hand and sarabande-like … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: YEKWON SUNWOO
Posted onFranz Schubert Sonata in C minor D 958 Schubert’s unabashed admiration for Beethoven is vividly on display in the opening bars of his Sonata in C minor D 958, composed in September 1828, shortly before his death. Schubert had served … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: THE VERONA QUARTET
Posted onFranz Joseph Haydn Quartet in B at major Op. 50 No. 1 The art music of Western Europe underwent a period of transition in the mid- 18th century as the thickly embroiled scores of the Baroque, with their long spun-out … Continue reading
A change to our first concert in the 2017-18 Season
Posted onThe Simón Bolívar String Quartet’s scheduled performance at the Vancouver Playhouse on September 17 has been postponed to a future season. The current volatile and violent situation in Venezuela, which has heightened following last week’s election, has made it almost impossible … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR
Posted onRobert Schumann Arabesque, Op. 18 In the autumn of 1838 Robert Schumann made a career decision. He would move from his native Leipzig to Vienna to find a publisher and a sympathetic public for his piano compositions. The public he … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: JAVIER PERIANES
Posted onFranz Schubert Piano Sonata in A Major D 664 The salubrious effects of country air on the mind and spirits of the vacationing composer are well known. Witness Schubert’s wonderfully relaxed and lyrical Sonata in A Major D 664 composed … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: MURRAY PERAHIA
Posted onJohann Sebastian Bach French Suite No. 6 in E Major BWV 817 The spirit of the dance can be felt across a wide range of Bach’s works, from the fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier to the Mass in B minor. … Continue reading
PROGRAM NOTES: PAUL LEWIS
Posted onJohann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 1 in B flat major BWV 825 The partita, in late Baroque parlance, was just another name for a dance suite, a multi-movement work made up of the four canonical dance forms—allemande, courante, sarabande & … Continue reading