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Domenic Salerni, violinist with the Attacca String Quartet and native of the Lehigh Valley, speaking with us about the ensemble's recent album titled, "Of All Joys" released by Sony Classical, featuring pieces from the Renaissance as well as works from Arvo Part and Philip Glass.
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Domenic Salerni; December 22 2021

JoAnn Falletta is Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic.

She’s also one of the founding board members of the Claudette Sorel Organization. Sorel was a pianist, teacher and music philanthropist who advocated a higher profile for contemporary music – particularly by women composers. Falletta and WRCJ’s Peter Whorf speak about the remarkable life of Claudette Sorel – commemorated in the recent re-release of classic recordings: Claudette Sorel: Rediscovered.

JoAnn Falletta - January 5, 2022

Five Minutes for Earth is a performance and commissioning project that both celebrates our planet and illuminates our challenge to preserve it.

Kondanassis 5 Minutes

Sweethearts (and Badasses) of Americana (and Beyond) 6/5/22 - Sara Shiloh Rae

Violinist Hilary Hahn's latest album release features big, bold pieces of music. Because, as Hahn says in the interview, we can't be timid right now.

Behind the Playlist with Violinist Hilary Hahn

misterG of greenarrowradio chats with Timo Vollbrecht about his signature ensemble FLY MAGIC's new album Givers and Takers out now on BERTHOLD Records.

Timo Vollbrecht

Trumpeter Paul Merkelo was reaching for the heritage of the trumpet concerto with his recording of three concerti from Soviet composers in his latest album. In doing so he found a kinship with the shared Ukrainian heritage of trumpeter Timofei Dokshizer, whose legacy looms over all of the included pieces. And this connection became far more important during the album's release, which is sending its proceeds to UNICEF for the care of Ukrainian children during Russia's continued invasion.

Behind the Playlist With Trumpeter Paul Merkelo

All Classical Portland’s Program Director John Pitman talks to pianist Mao Fujita about his new album, Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas, available now from Sony.

Learn more on the Arts Blog: https://www.allclassical.org/mao-fujita-mozart/

John Pitman Review: Mao Fujita Takes On Mozart

All Classical Portland’s Program Director John Pitman talks to British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, whose new album touches on the relationships of Brahms and Robert and Clara Schumann.

Learn more on the Arts Blog: https://www.allclassical.org/pitman-review-grosvenor-brahms/

John Pitman Review: Benjamin Grosvenor Schumann Brahms

October 27, 2023 edition of Lush Life with Scott Penn on WOMR. The program featured an interview with jazz and world music singer Kavita Shah to discuss her new album “Cape Verdean Blues.”

October 27 2023 Broadcast On WOMR Featuring Kavita Shah

CHOPIN : Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 11 : Allegro Maestoso

Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 in Eminor Op.11 Allegro Maestoso

Zabel Manoukian, piano

Uppsala Kammarsolister - Bernt Lysell, violin
                                               Klara Hellgren, violin
                                               Susanne Magnusson, viola
                                               Eric Wahlgren, cello
                                               Barbro Lennstam, double bass

S:t Görans Kyrka, Stockholm

Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor Op.11 Allegro Maestoso

Stream and Download these soundbites from Igor Levit discussing his Bach, Beethoven, Rzewski album

IGOR LEVIT: BACH, BEETHOVEN, RZEWSKI
Igor Levit & Marina Abramović: Bach's Goldberg Variations

Sony Classical announces the release of Pianist Igor Levit's third album - Bach, Beethoven, Rzewski.  Available October 30, the album includes Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, long considered acid tests of the performer's art, plus Frederic Rzewski's gigantic cycle on the Chilean revolutionary song ¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!, which has the reputation of being nearly unplayable. Not content with canonized masterpieces, Levit is equally drawn to the physical challenge of Rzewski's virtuosic tightrope walks.

In seven performances from December 7-19 in New York, Levit and iconic visual/performance artist Marina Abramović will give the world premiere of their collaboration on the Goldberg Variations, which Levit will perform live, at the Park Avenue Armory in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Abramović re-imagines the concertgoing experience by employing her Abramović Method to explore the relationship between performer and observer, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. This concentrated durational work reflects upon music, time, space, emptiness, and luminosity, with the audience becoming a part of the work.

Levit's vaulting artistic ambitions have been proven by his first two albums: the five late Beethoven sonatas (2013) and the six Bach partitas (2014). The response from the international media was as broad as it was universally ecstatic. In April 2014, Alex Ross of The New Yorker wrote of Levit's début album for Sony Classical, "After a few minutes, I was transfixed. Here was playing of technical brilliance, tonal allure, intellectual drive, and an elusive quality that the Germans indicate with the word Innigkeit, or inwardness."

Today, after just a few years on the international scene, this young artist has emerged as one of the leading pianists of our time, combining supreme interpretative earnestness with sparkling technique and extraordinary versatility. He has enlarged his repertoire in many directions at once, at a dizzying pace. It may seem ambitious that Levit, aided by multiple Grammy-winner Andreas Neubronner as producer, has recorded the three most demanding sets of variations in the keyboard repertoire, all within the space of half a year. Yet he has already spent a great deal of time with all three, each of which stands for an important aspect of his work.

Since 2011 Levit has headed the chamber music program at the Heidelberg Spring Festival. It was at his initiative that Frederic Rzewski was invited this year to be the festival's artist-in-residence. Over the years all three sets of variations on this recording have been featured in Levit's Heidelberg recitals. He even played the Goldberg Variations there for the very first time in April 2015.

"Actually, variations have always been my favorite musical form," Levit confides. "The faster the change and the higher the frequency, the more I like it. I view variations like travel books: there are reports of roads leading from point A to point B, but also reports of people who set out as person X and arrive as person Y. I never know in advance how I'll experience the stops along the way or in what state of mind I'll arrive at my destination. Yet I've always felt very protected and in good hands on these journeys."

Levit made a deep study of the Diabelli Variations at the age of 17. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, the legendary professor of piano at Hanover University of Music, who died in 2012, had intuitively recognized that the wealth of sharply contrasting characters in late Beethoven were made to order for his intellectually agile protégé. Kämmerling's intuition proved correct: the Diabelli Variations became the pièce de résistance of Levit's early career.

IL - Bach, Beethoven, Rzewski - Following The Composer Without Losing Himself

Played during my Graduation Recital last Feb 12, 2013
at the PhilamLife Auditorium
PIano Concerto in E minor Op. 11 - I. Allegro Maestoso by Frederic Chopin

Piano Concerto in E minor Op. 11 - I. Allegro Maestoso - F. Chopin

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