Showing posts with label PLYouTube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PLYouTube. Show all posts
3/07/2013
New video cartoon: the grievous life of a Soviet composer
March 6, 2013 by 5 Comments Mieczyslaw Weinberg was the composer who was closest to Dmitri Shostakovich in every sense – friendship, style, adjoining apartments. Weinberg’s music is steadily gaining recognition, but his life story remains obscure. Canada’s Arc ensemble attempts to piece it together in an animated film, just posted on Youtube. You view it here first.
Director James Murdoch, illustrations by Thomas Dannenberg. Image courtesy Toccata Classics
Sourse http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/03/new-video-cartoon-the-grievous-life-of-a-soviet-composer.html
2/12/2013
12/23/2012
Gavotte in B minor - Eleven Etudes in the Form of Old Dances, Op.19 - Viktor Kosenko
Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko (1896--1938) was one of the most
important Ukrainian composers and pianists of the first half of the
twentieth century. His Eleven Etudes in the Form of Old Dances, Op. 19,
of 1927--29 offer an organic synthesis of the late-Romantic piano
tradition, neo-Classical impulses in their use of Baroque dance-forms,
and elements of Ukrainian folk-music. This recording of a neglected
monument in the piano literature is the first step in the discovery of a
composer who was once a cultural icon in his native Ukraine but is now
as good as unknown outside its borders.
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