Tag: Zoltán Fejérvári

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI

    PROGRAM NOTES: ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI

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    Robert Schumann Waldszenen Op. 82 It is not by chance that Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Der Freischütz, the founding work of German musical Romanticism, is set in a forest. Nor is it a coincidence that German Romantic poets from Ludwig Tieck to Joseph von Eichendorff and Heinrich Heine extolled the deep spiritual joys of…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ISTVÁN VÁRDAI

    PROGRAM NOTES: ISTVÁN VÁRDAI

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    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…