TCHAIKOVSKY ROCCOCO VARATIONS AND PIANOTRIO OP. 50 - SERGEI ISTOMIN
Artist(s):Sergei Istomin & Viviana Sofronitski Composer:Felix Mendelssohn
Sergei Istomin, cello Apollo Ensemble - direction David Rabinovich
Artist(s):Sergei Istomin & Viviana Sofronitsky Composer:Fryderyc Chopin
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Artist(s):Liuwe Tamminga Composer:Puccini
The Richter Ensemble performs music from the 17th to the 20th century exclusively on gut strings and uses its experience with historical performance practice to heighten the sense for the development of musical language over the centuries. The ensemble is passionately dedicated to the music of the Second Viennese School and, based on its research, has decided that the time is ripe to steer the...
Artist(s):Sergei Istomin & Viviana Sofronitsky Composer:Fryderyc Chopin
Artist(s):Alexei Lubimov - Alexei Grotz Composer:Franz Schubert
Vienna. 1803. George Bridgetower, a violinist of Afro-European descent, causes furore with his virtuosity and captivates Beethoven, who writes a devilish and magnificent sonata for his unique and exotic character. Despite the premiere’s enormous success performed by both of them, an unfortunate comment by the violinist about one of the composer’s female friends leads to this famous sonata being...
Artist(s):OXALYS Composer:Joseph Jongen
Artist(s):Liuwe Tamminga Composer:PUCCINI
Artist(s):Oxalys & Dietrich Henschel Composer:C. Debussy, A. Zemlinsky, F. Busoni, G. Mahler
Artist(s):Sergei Istomin & Viviana Sofronitski Composer:Felix Mendelssohn
Artist(s):Liuwe Tamminga Composer:Giuseppe Verdi
After a very successful lifetime, albeit marked by long years of physical and psychological suffering, Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) chose Passy, on the outskirts of Paris, as the place to spend the final years of his life. Here Rossini recovered his health and began composing again after years of inactivity. During these years, in addition to the wonderful Petite Messe solennelle, he wrote...
In 1959, two composers wrote nonets: Nino Rota’s melodic Nonetto, on which he would continue to work for almost 20 years, and Bohuslav Martinů’s farewell chamber music piece, a nonet, which he composed as a last piece to satisfy his longing for his homeland. Eisler did not compose his nonet in his native country either, but arrived in Mexico in 1941 as a refugee from the Nazis. There he wrote...
Artist(s):José Pizarro, David Aijón Composer:Robert Schumann
Artist(s):Piet Kuijken on Pianoforte J.B. Streicher N° 6680 (1868) Composer:Johannes Brahms
When Eugène Ysaÿe composed his cycle of 6 sonatas op. 27 for solo violin in June 1923, gut strings were still very common and highly appreciated - statements by contemporary violinists such as Mischa Elman, Toscha Seidel and Jacques Thibaud confirm this. However, neither the dedicatees of Eugène Ysaÿe’s solo sonatas nor other contemporaries made recordings of these works. Martin Reimann has now...
Spanish Guitar music from around 1930 with works dedicated to Regino Sáinz de la Maza (1896-1981). Yiannnis Efstathopoulos performs with an historical informed approach, using a Spanish guitar modelled on the type that was used around 1930 with gut strings. this results in highlighting each string’s individual character and the delicate balance between the high and low strings. Works by Julián...
TCHAIKOVSKY ROCCOCO VARATIONS AND PIANOTRIO OP. 50 - SERGEI ISTOMIN