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  • · Menuhin Festival Gstaad
     
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  • · Grafenegg Music Festival
     
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  • · ARD International Music Competition
     
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  • · Banff International String Quartet Competition
     
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“The young Igor Levit, who shows not only great technical accomplishment but also a remarkable artistic maturity, shaped [Prokofiev’s] concerto forcefully...A brilliant performance.” – Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 2009

At only 23, Igor Levit has already made his debuts with orchestras such as the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester (with whom he performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 under Andris Nelsons in 2009)...


Johann Nepomuk Hummel (November 14, 1778 – October 17, 1837) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.

Hummel was born in Pressburg, Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia), the son of National Theater conductor Johann Hummel. He began music instruction at the age of three, playing the violin fluently at five and the piano at six...

 

 

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The effects of jazz music on people

Jazz is a musical art form with African and Western European colonial roots, which dates back to the 19th century. The birth of jazz can also be traced back to the segregation laws of 1894. These laws brought together two polar populations and musical subcultures, creating a fusion of upper-class Creole classical influences and the cathartic "blues notes" sung and played by poor, uneducated black Americans who were enduring hardship in the south. While jazz is often known for its mixture of simple and complex rhythms and beats, it is most celebrated for its' improvisational quality...

A Conductor’s Passion for ‘Porgy’

GEORGE GERSHWIN called “Porgy and Bess” a “folk opera,” emphasis on opera, and lived to see the premiere, on Broadway, in truncated but substantially operatic form. At that time the piece was sung virtually all the way through, but the version that traveled the world after Gershwin’s death, in 1937, was effectively a musical comedy, with spoken scenes framing musical numbers that — apart from “Summertime” — were invariably performed much too fast...

Beethoven May Not Have Died of Lead Poisoning, After All

Scientists began speculating about what really killed Ludwig van Beethoven almost as soon as he was buried in 1827. He had complained of a “wretched existence,” with a long list of symptoms: abdominal pain, digestive trouble, colic, chronic bronchitis, foul body odors and extremely bad breath. And of course there was the hearing problem...

Scary Niu Niu

Niu Niu had his Wigmore Hall debut in 2006, when he was just nine years old. Introduced to the London public by pianist Leslie Howard and sponsored by David Tang of Shanghai Tang fame, Niu Niu received a taste of limelight and glamour in one of the foremost concert halls in the world. In July, Niu Niu had an all-Chopin concert staged at the Shenzhen Concert Hall, the Shenzhen Daily interviewed his entire family as they promoted the concert...



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Tine Thing Helseth - Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, 3rd movement

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Regina Chernychko - Hummel: Piano Concerto Op. 85, 1st movement (1)

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Hummel: Rondo in E-flat major, Op. 11

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Mendelssohn: Elias Op. 70 - Denn er hat seinen Engeln

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Igor Levit - Reger, Telemann, Fugue from Variations and Fugue

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Ivo Pogorelich - Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, 1st movement

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  • Tine Thing Helseth - Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, 3rd movement
  • Regina Chernychko - Hummel: Piano Concerto Op. 85, 1st movement (1)
  • Hummel: Rondo in E-flat major, Op. 11
  • Mendelssohn: Elias Op. 70 - Denn er hat seinen Engeln
  • Igor Levit - Reger, Telemann, Fugue from Variations and Fugue
  • Ivo Pogorelich - Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, 1st movement
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