Tag: Igor Stravinsky

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ISRAELI CHAMBER PROJECT & HILA BAGGIO
  • PROGRAM NOTES: TONY SIQI YUN

    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…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: STEVEN OSBORNE AND PAUL LEWIS

    PROGRAM NOTES: STEVEN OSBORNE AND PAUL LEWIS

    Gabriel Fauré Dolly Suite  Op. 56 In the 1890s Gabriel Fauré would often compose or revise small pieces for the infant daughter of his mistress Emma Bardac (1862-1934). These affectionate pieces celebrated a birthday, a pet, or a special person in the life of the young Regina-Hélène, known in the family as “Dolly,” and six…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ISTVÁN VÁRDAI

    PROGRAM NOTES: ISTVÁN VÁRDAI

    Felix 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 younger brother Paul Mendelssohn (1812-1874) was no slouch as a cellist, to judge by the…