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Articles for Violin Concerto

Film Fantasia
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Film Fantasia

ABC  

Genre: Classical Release Date: 4 October 2024 Emily Sun’s debut concerto album includes John Williams’ evocative and popular ‘Theme from Schindler’s List’, the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s new violin concerto ‘Fantasie im Wintergarten’ written for Emily and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and based on silent film. Opening the disc, Korngold’s lushly textured and famed violin concerto whose music was …

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Violinist hits perfect note with Carnegie ovation
1 year, 7 months ago

Violinist hits perfect note with Carnegie ovation

China Daily  

Violinist Lao Li performs at her concert at Carnegie Hall, New York, on July 6, featuring pianist An Tianxu. When violinist Lao Li had her concert at Carnegie Hall, New York, on July 6, she was so touched that a Chinese piece, Violin Concerto No 1, by the acclaimed composer Zhao Jiping, was met with a standing ovation. Lao spent …

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Violinist hits perfect note with Carnegie ovation
1 year, 7 months ago

Violinist hits perfect note with Carnegie ovation

China Daily  

Violinist Lao Li performs at her concert at Carnegie Hall, New York, on July 6, featuring pianist An Tianxu. When violinist Lao Li had her concert at Carnegie Hall, New York, on July 6, she was so touched that a Chinese piece, Violin Concerto No 1, by the acclaimed composer Zhao Jiping, was met with a standing ovation. Lao spent …

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French composer to feature at festival
3 years, 5 months ago

French composer to feature at festival

China Daily  

Violinist Vera Tsu Weiling is a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Forbidden City concert to mark 100 years since death of Charles Camille Saint-Saens will also feature Chinese works, Chen Nan reports. With this year marking the centennial of the death of French composer Charles Camille Saint-Saens, a concert featuring his works is being staged during …

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French composer to feature at festival
3 years, 5 months ago

French composer to feature at festival

China Daily  

Violinist Vera Tsu Weiling is a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Forbidden City concert to mark 100 years since death of Charles Camille Saint-Saens will also feature Chinese works, Chen Nan reports. With this year marking the centennial of the death of French composer Charles Camille Saint-Saens, a concert featuring his works is being staged during …

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French composer to feature at festival
3 years, 5 months ago

French composer to feature at festival

China Daily  

Violinist Vera Tsu Weiling is a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Forbidden City concert to mark 100 years since death of Charles Camille Saint-Saens will also feature Chinese works, Chen Nan reports. With this year marking the centennial of the death of French composer Charles Camille Saint-Saens, a concert featuring his works is being staged during …

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The extraordinary consequence of Mozart’s love letter between violin and viola
4 years, 6 months ago

The extraordinary consequence of Mozart’s love letter between violin and viola

LA Times  

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? For the first time in this young man’s already triumphantly flourishing career, Mozart’s medium became, as though he were an 18th century Marshall McLuhan, his message. Even Mozart’s playful Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365, which he wrote for himself and sister around the same time as K. 364, is, for …

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Review: Mirga meets an old master at Disney Hall
7 years, 5 months ago

Review: Mirga meets an old master at Disney Hall

LA Times  

Music Critic When Gidon Kremer has a farsighted cause, it is wise to pay close attention. Kremer championed Philip Glass’ initially maligned Violin Concerto in the 1980s and finally shamed the classical concert world into taking the composer seriously. One of the first famed artists to speak out against Putin’s political and artistic repression, Kremer organized a protest concert in …

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The Los Angeles Philharmonic and those Russians
8 years, 1 month ago

The Los Angeles Philharmonic and those Russians

LA Times  

Music Critic A concert like the Los Angeles Philharmonic ’s program this week, which includes the world’s favorite violin concerto and all the favorite bits from one of the best beloved 20th century ballet scores, might seem the perfect respite from an inescapable collective obsession with the political goings-on of the moment. ------------ FOR THE RECORD Feb. 6, 10 a.m.: …

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First Impressions: A Guide To New Music In The New Season
8 years, 7 months ago

First Impressions: A Guide To New Music In The New Season

NPR  

First Impressions: A Guide To New Music In The New Season toggle caption AFP/Getty Images Interested in Steve Jobs, Georgia O'Keefe or Alice in Wonderland? On April 13, the orchestra and conductor laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen join the Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós in a concert that includes the world premiere of the young Danish composer Daníel Bjarnason's Violin Concerto. Jaap …

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Stories By A Contributing Writer Published On NPR.org That Contain Plagiarism
9 years, 5 months ago

Stories By A Contributing Writer Published On NPR.org That Contain Plagiarism

NPR  

Stories By A Contributing Writer Published On NPR.org That Contain Plagiarism Editor's note on Nov. 9, 2015: WNYC in New York has identified three additional stories written by Brian Wise and posted on NPR.org that contain unattributed words or phrases. Sponsor Message New York Philharmonic Live At Carnegie Hall Wednesday By Brian Wise Oct 1, 2015 To open its 125th …

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Esa-Pekka Salonen's Excellent Violin Adventure
12 years, 5 months ago

Esa-Pekka Salonen's Excellent Violin Adventure

NPR  

Esa-Pekka Salonen's Excellent Violin Adventure Enlarge this image toggle caption Mat Hennek/Deutsche Grammophon Mat Hennek/Deutsche Grammophon After 17 years molding the Los Angeles Philharmonic into one of the smartest and most adventurous U.S. orchestras, music director Esa-Pekka Salonen called it quits in 2009. But even by those standards, the Violin Concerto reveals an extraordinary range of rhythm, color and texture …

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Janine Jansen: Portrait Of A Rising Violinist : NPR
14 years ago

Janine Jansen: Portrait Of A Rising Violinist : NPR

NPR  

Janine Jansen: Portrait Of A Rising Violinist toggle caption Sara Wilson/Decca Hear Jansen Play Britten: Violin Concerto: II. "It's so important, I think, that you do that from a young age and learn to communicate through music," Jansen says. Jansen has recorded many of the standard violin concertos — Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Beethoven — but she's also recorded lesser-known repertoire like …

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Classical Fans Tell Stories Of 'First Loves'
14 years, 6 months ago

Classical Fans Tell Stories Of 'First Loves'

NPR  

Classical Fans Tell Stories Of 'First Loves' Enlarge this image toggle caption Getty Images Getty Images Nearly every music fan can remember their first love. Two weeks ago, when we launched this very blog, Deceptive Cadence, we asked classical music fans: "What's the first piece of music you fell in love with?" Sponsor Message Brahms: String Sextet in B-flat 4:50 …

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John Adams Revitalizes the Violin Concerto
17 years ago

John Adams Revitalizes the Violin Concerto

NPR  

John Adams Revitalizes the Violin Concerto Concert Cast List John Adams: Violin Concerto Leila Josefowicz, violin Roberto Abbado, conductor St. Paul Chamber Orchestra In concert at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, Minn. toggle caption Deborah O'Grady toggle caption Deborah O'Grady The composer John Adams once said in an interview, "It's taken me 20 years to escape …

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Russian National Orchestra in Concert
18 years, 8 months ago

Russian National Orchestra in Concert

NPR  

Russian National Orchestra in Concert Featured Performers Nikolaj Znaider, violin Piotr Anderszewski, piano Stephane Deneve, conductor, Russian National Orchestra toggle caption toggle caption toggle caption toggle caption toggle caption J. Henry Fair The Mother Goose Suite by Maurice Ravel Sinfonia Concertante by Karol Szymanowski Violin Concerto by Jean Sibelius Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2 by Maurice Ravel Yountville, California, …

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