Robert Schumann Fünf Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 The late 1840s saw Schumann take up “house music” in a big way. This does not mean that he began to DJ at raves, playing dance music with repetitive drum tracks and … Continue reading
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The second concert from "A Festival of New Music" at Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin is about to begin. Daniel Barenboim and Emmanuel Pahud will answer your questions. #KeepCultureAlive #NewMusicFestival
Tune in to A Festival of New Music which will be live streamed from Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin at 9am (Vancouver time) today. Daniel Barenboim and Emmanuel Pahud have curated the festival to raise awareness of the challenges COVID-19 poses not only to the health and livelihood of people worldwide but also to cultural life. There are four performances in total which take place from July 9-12.
The VRS is a Festival Partner and the Pierre Boulez Saal has asked us to encourage people to donate to a cultural organization of our choice. We're happy to recommend the wonderful Vancouver Academy of Music. We've often partnered with VAM in the past to present masterclasses to its students. #keepculturealive #newmusicfestival
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We're delighted to be able to introduce VRS patrons and friends to A Festival of New Music featuring ten new works by Irini Amargianaki, Benjamin Attahir, Johannes Borowski, Luca Francesconi, Michael Jarrell, Philippe Manoury, Olga Neuwirth, Matthias Pintscher, Christian Rivet, and Jörg Widmann. Th...Program Notes: Winterlude – Super Sunday with Alexander Melnikov
Posted onSergei Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Chopin Op. 22 Chopin’s funereal, passacaglia-like Prelude in C minor from his collection of 24 Preludes Op. 28 provides the theme for Rachmaninoff’s first large-scale work for solo piano, his Variations on a … Continue reading
Program Notes: Winterlude – Suite Saturday with Jean-Guihen Queyras
Posted onA Bit of History Few scholars doubt that Western music was better off for the release of a certain “Bach, Johann Sebastian” from the county jail in Weimar where he had languished, in unsuitable company, for the better part of … Continue reading
Program Notes: Joyce DiDonato with Il Pomo d’Oro Chamber Orchestra ‘In War & Peace: Harmony Through Music’
Posted onWAR, PEACE and BAROQUE OPERA The lust for war, the longing for peace: emotions such as these lie at the extremes of human experience. What better place to explore them than in the luridly violent, yet touchingly pathos- filled world … Continue reading
Program Notes: Behzod Abduraimov
Posted onAntonio Vivaldi Siciliana in D minor (arr. J. S. Bach and Alfred Cortot) Nothing could be more Baroque than an arrangement of an arrangement. The Baroque was a period in music history in which music travelled freely between instruments … Continue reading
Program Notes: Anna Fedorova
Posted onWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasia in D minor K. 397 Mozart’s D minor Fantasia is a bundle of mysteries; an intriguing sound-puzzle for the listener but a labyrinthine minefield of interpretive choices for the pianist. Mere slavish attention to the details of … Continue reading
Program Notes: István Várdai
Posted onFelix Mendelssohn Variations Concertantes Op. 17 Felix was not the only musician in the Mendelssohn family. His older sister Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847) was a prodigiously talented pianist and composer, although she chose marriage over a public career, and his … Continue reading
Program Notes: The Danish String Quartet
Posted onJohann Sebastian Bach Well-Tempered Clavier II Fugue No. 7 in E-flat major BWV 876 (arr. Mozart) In 1782 Mozart’s patron, Baron Gottfried van Swieten, showed the composer a number of manuscripts of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and encouraged … Continue reading
Program Notes: Ksenija Sidorova
Posted onThe Concert Accordion Early Beginnings The accordion has for centuries been associated with music of a light or popular nature. Its portability, full harmonic texture and penetrating, reedy timbre have made it the ideal mini-orchestra for country dances and … Continue reading
Program Notes: Ian Bostridge with Wenwen Du
Posted onGustave Mahler Three Des Knaben Wunderhorn Songs The collection of German folk poetry published between 1805 and 1808 under the title Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn) had an enormous influence on the development of German lyric poetry and … Continue reading