While recording their album The Vinteuil Sonata, which explores Marcel Proust’s musical inspirations, sisters Maria and Nathalie Milstein were filmed playing the two Reynaldo Hahn song transcriptions that appear on the Mirare disc. This film is by UNIK ACCESS (images Bénédicte Banet and sound Franck Jaffrès).
The video and recording was partly funded by Maria Milstein’s Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship prize.
Recognition from Dutch Ministry of Culture’s Performing Arts Fund follows a period of mentorship and study
The Chinese-American cellist gives a free concert in the Montréal metro, including a Leonard Cohen singalong.
‘Spiral Sequences is a string quartet performed in two movements,’ writes composer Jack Frerer. ‘The first, the shorter of the two, is frantic and pulse-driven, carried by momentum generated by spiraling 16th note patterns and repeated ostinatos. It presents fragments of a sequence-like pattern,
In this video taken during a Memphis Symphony Orchestra rehearsal, the entire violin section surprises soloist Tai Murray by joining in with her solo part in the finale. Chicago-born Tai Murray is a former BBC New Generation Artist and concertmaster of the UK-based Chineke Orchestra. Watch:
Alena Baeva, who won the Wieniawski Violin Competition aged 16 in 2001, writes about her love for one of the lesser known gems of the violin repertoire
From ABC Classic FM comes this video of Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska performing ‘Summertime’ from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
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