Tag: piano
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PROGRAM NOTES: RANDALL GOOSBY AND ZHU WANG
Lili Boulanger Deux Morceaux Lili Boulanger was born into a distinguished family of French musicians. Her grandfather, Frédéric Boulanger (b. 1777) had been a professor at the Paris Conservatoire and was married to Marie-Julie Haligner (1786-1850), a mezzo-soprano at the Théâtre de l’Opéra-Comique who had sung in the premiere of Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment…
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PROGRAM NOTES: JAMAL ALIYEV AND FAZIL SAY
Franz Schubert Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano D. 821 Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata was composed in 1824 but only published in 1871—long after the composer’s death in 1828, and almost as long after the principal instrument for which it was written fell out of favour. The six-stringed arpeggione was a kind of large…