Tag: Witold Lutosławski

  • PROGRAM NOTES: SHEKU AND ISATA KANNEH-MASON

    PROGRAM NOTES: SHEKU AND ISATA KANNEH-MASON

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    Ludwig van Beethoven 12 Variations on “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen” from The Magic Flute  Op. 66 Beethoven’s set of variations on a theme from Mozart’s Magic Flute features twelve sharply chiselled operatic duets between piano and cello, widely differentiated in character like the comic personalities in the Singspiel from which the theme is derived. Audiences…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: RAPHAËL SÉVÈRE & PAUL MONTAG

    PROGRAM NOTES: RAPHAËL SÉVÈRE & PAUL MONTAG

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    Alexander 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 case of Alexander Borodin’s Sonata for Cello & Piano in B minor (c.1860). Deeply imprinted…