Haydn

Theme From Ice Castles

Itasca
Imitation of War
PoB-073
LP/CD/digital
February 9, 2024

On Imitation of War, songwriter and guitarist Kayla Cohen advances Itasca into rockier terrain, with a suite of smoky nocturnes and uneasy idylls surveying, with refreshing urgency, mythologies and psychologies both classical and personal. Co-produced by Robbie Cody (Wand, Behavior), these ten sturdy set-pieces represent the loosest, leanest, and most smolderingly electric guitar-forward recordings of Cohen’s deepening catalog.

Cohen’s got a voice that glows like the sun at dusk, and plays guitar with a nimble yet intricate touch. – NPR

Simultaneously haunting and heavenly … shimmers with an eternal mystery. – MOJO

Cohen’s most salient talent is evocation—trapping place, weather, and physical presence like a butterfly pinned beneath glass. – Pitchfork

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Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music Youth Orchestra (PYO)

Live recorded at 'Symphonies in Dialogue: Haydn to Shostakovich'
23rd March 2014
Jason Lai, Conductor
Sangita Vadhana Hall, PGVIM
Bangkok, Thailand

Joseph Haydn : Symphony No.94 in G Major, Hob.1/94 "Surprise" : Second Movement

Тъмната сянка на човекоубиеца

Към сърцето ти

Soft piano Music For a Relax Morning

Jenkins - Palladio

Shona_Foster_Oh Patience

The New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra coached by Donald Palma performs Elgar's Serenade for Strings. Recorded live at NEC's Jordan Hall March 15, 2011.
For more information: http://necmusic.edu/concerts

Elgar: Serenade for Strings in E minor  Op  20 - Allegretto

All recording credit goes to Harrison Digital Productions

Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20 No. 4 - Allegro di Molto

New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, coached by Donald Palma performs the first movement of Joseph Hadyn's Symphony No. 49 In F Minor, "La Passione". Recorded live in 2005 in NEC's Jordan Hall.

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 49 In F Minor - Allegro Di Molto

https://www.aleksandramikulska.com​

https://bio.to/aleksandra​

Expressions: Haydn, Szymanowski, Chopin

Sonata in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI/46 - II. Adagio

Haydn - Sonata in A-flat major Hob. XVI: 46 - II. Adagio

Sonata in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI/46 - III. Finale - Presto

Haydn - Sonata in A-flat major Hob. XVI: 46 - III. Finale. Presto

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Vandrelinje

While all these statements describe Aleksandra Mikulska’s playing, her art is perhaps best encapsulated by the phrase: sincerity and intimacy. In her concerts, the charismatic pianist lifts the curtain on new and unfamiliar worlds and aims to move her listeners – whether with the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt or her compatriot Frédéric Chopin, with whom she feels a particularly strong connection – through her utter absorption in the music.

Growing up in Warsaw, Chopin’s home city, Aleksandra Mikulska developed an intense love of the composer’s piano music while still a child. Having, in her early years, followed the International Chopin Piano Competition on television, with scarcely room for a piano in the family’s tenth-floor apartment in a prefabricated block, she went on to win the “Best Polish Pianist” prize in the 2005 contest. 

Seeking freedom and new interpretative stimuli, Aleksandra Mikulska was drawn for her musical training initially to Mannheim and from there to Karlsruhe (where she studied for her degree under Peter Eicher), Imola in Italy (Lazar Berman, Michel Dalberto) and back to Hanover in Germany (Arie Vardi). She also drew significant inspiration from masterclasses with Diane Andersen, Kevin Kenner, Andrzej Jasinski and Lev Natochenny. Aleksandra Mikulska describes giving concerts as her passion. She has appeared with renowned orchestras under the batons of Michael Sanderling, Pawel Przytocki, Kaspar Zehnder, Johannes Schlaefli, Stefan Fraas, Philippe Bach and other well-known conductors – notably at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Brucknerhaus in Linz and the Tonhalle in Zurich. She is also a regular guest at international festivals such as the MDR Musiksommer, the Liszt Festival Raiding, the Bodenseefestival, the Usedom Music Festival and the Styriarte.

An issue particularly close to Aleksandra Mikulska’s heart is German-Polish cooperation. As President of the Chopin Society in Darmstadt, she is committed to fostering the up-and-coming generation of musicians and to promoting the rediscovery of less-well-known composers from her home country. She also brings her polish roots to bear by performing the music of composers such as Julian Fontana, Miłosz Magin, Artur Malawski and Karol Szymanowski, which is rarely played in Germany.

In addition to the solo repertoire to which she is first and foremost devoted, Aleksandra Mikulska also, at a young age, discovered an interest in chamber music – including Johannes Brahms’s violin and cellos sonatas and the piano concertos of Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin, which she enjoys approaching in experimental arrangements for smaller ensembles. She also has a strong interest in Polish and German Romantic lieder. 

On her latest album, Reflections, released by GENUIN classics, Aleksandra Mikulska brings together two key works of the Romantic repertoire for piano: the B minor sonatas of Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. During the 2020/21 season, she will be giving a wide range of concerts with personally presented programmes featuring works by Scarlatti, Haydn, Schumann, Beethoven, Fontana and Szymanowski.

Haydn - Sonata in A-flat major Hob. XVI: 46 - III. Finale. Presto

Aleksandra Mikulska

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