Tag: Kay Meek Centre
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PROGRAM NOTES: ANDREAS BRANTELID & SHAI WOSNER
Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano Few works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) bear generic titles like symphony, quartet, concerto or sonata. Most have descriptive or evocative titles like Printemps, Jeux, Claire de lune, La mer, Nocturnes or Ibéria. Since chamber music tends, more than any other, to rely on the traditional forms of classical…
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AN INTERVIEW WITH RODION POGOSSOV
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule. Where are you today? I’m in Hamburg right now, singing my first Verdi role in the opera “Don Carlos” at the Hamburgische Staatsoper. When did you realize you wanted a career in music? I was inspired at the age of 17 by my teacher and…
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PROGRAM NOTES: RODION POGOSSOV
Alessandro Stradella: “Pietà, Signore” Orphaned at the age of eleven, Alessandro Stradella went on to lead one of the most colourful lives of any composer who ever lived. He was involved in Mafiaesque schemes, had a reputation for womanizing, got himself wounded by pursuing avengers, and was eventually murdered. In between all this he found…
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GETTING TO KNOW: MAXIM RYSANOV
“If they say the violin is a human voice, I would say the viola is the voice of the soul.” Discovery: “I studied at the boarding school, and there was a viola player in the next room. Its vibrations touched me deeply when I played it. That was how I realized that I can…
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FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE
Maxim Rysanov describes how he was introduced to the viola. It didn’t take long for this “prince among violists” to achieve success and acclaim. In September 2010 he performed Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations at the Last Night of the Proms with conductor Jiri Belohlavek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Maxim Rysanov performs at Kay Meek Centre on Sunday, October 16.