Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata in B flat major K. 570 The period of the 1770s and 1780s brought regime change to the world of keyboard music as the harpsichord was gradually edged out by the first generation of fortepianos, capable … Continue reading
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Listening to Barack Obama's eulogy at Congressman John Lewis's funeral last week caused Leila to examine the ways in which we respond to the powers of speech and music. Plus, pianist Paul Lewis has just released a new Beethoven album: Für Elise, Bagatelles, Opp. 33, 119 & 126. Read these stories and more in this week's e-news...
Our Beyond the Concert Hall conversations on YouTube are referenced in this article in The Vancouver Sun. Also, David Gordon Duke chats with Bill Palant, managing director of Etude Arts in New York about the challenges posed by COVID.
Vancouver Recital Society posts series of provocative conversations
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Group also joined distinguished company in sponsoring a series of new concerts streamed from Berlin’s renowned Pierre Boulez Saal.In this week's e-news, we share Leila's video chat with Dr. Thomas Yu, a practicing periodontist based in Calgary, and the First Prize Winner of the 2016 Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition. Plus, the subject of blind auditions has prompted some strong opinions... we share a couple of opposing views. And, as always, we're sharing the music we're listening to right now: bit.ly/2P8cRQM
Notice of Annual General Meeting + A Chance to Win
Posted onNotice of AGM All members are welcome and encouraged to attend The Annual General Meeting of the Vancouver Recital Society Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 12:45pm Royal Bank Cinema, Chan Centre, UBC Meeting Business 12:45pm The membership will be asked … Continue reading
Program Notes: Roman Rabinovich
Posted onFranz Joseph Haydn Sonata in B-flat Major, Hob. XVI:41 In 1784 Haydn wrote three keyboard sonatas for Princess Marie, the new bride of Prince Nicholas Esterházy, grandson of Haydn’s employer Prince Nicholas I. Each is a two- movement work, without … Continue reading
Program Notes: Apollon Musagète Quartet
Posted onLudwig van Beethoven String Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3 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—a … Continue reading
Program Notes: Leif Ove Andsnes
Posted onJean Sibelius Kyllikki, Three Lyric Pieces for Piano Op. 41 Finland’s national composer, Jean Sibelius, has earned an honoured place in the modern canon chiefly on the merits of his orchestral works, notably his seven symphonies, the Violin Concerto, and … Continue reading
Program Notes: Arcanto Quartet
Posted onThis evening the Arcanto Quartet offers us a chance to explore chamber music from the end of the 17th century to the recent past, sampling music for four players by Henry Purcell (1659–95), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), and Benjamin Britten … Continue reading
Program Notes: Caroline Goulding & Wenwen Du
Posted onJohann Sebastian Bach Sonata in A major, BWV 1015 Before taking up his post as Cantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig in 1723, Bach served as Kapellmeister to Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen (1694-1728). The young Prince was of the Calvinist … Continue reading
Program Notes: Raphaël Sévère & Paul Montag
Posted onAlexander Borodin Sonata for Cello and Piano in B Minor (adapted for clarinet & piano by Raphaël Sévère) The role of the noisy neighbour in music history is an unjustly neglected theme for research but well worth considering in the … Continue reading
Program Notes: Jeremy Denk
Posted onJohann Sebastian Bach English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808 Bach’s keyboard suites are a remarkable amalgam of the florid keyboard idiom of the French, the lyrical gift for vocal melody of the Italians, and the sober contrapuntal … Continue reading
Program notes: Maximilian Hornung & Benjamin Engeli
Posted onRobert Schumann Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102 Long before Martha Stewart made middle-class home furnishings a “thing,” the Biedermeier period (1815-1848) ushered in a bourgeois age of cozy home interiors that celebrated domestic family life and gave music a … Continue reading