10/03/2013
9/23/2013
The Chopin Experience - Piano Tutorials - BBC R3
For Radio 3's Chopin Experience the pianist, teacher and broadcaster David Owen Norris has filmed 3 video piano tutorials. The videos focus on two of Chopin's well-known piano pieces, and are aimed at amateur pianists and those still learning. From advice on how to play Chopin on modern pianos, to tips on
pedalling, fingering, rhythm and interpretation, they offer valuable
insights into playing Chopin's music.

9/15/2013
Chamber Music Of Mozart - TTC Video & Audio Lectures
What
made Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart perhaps the most complete "musical
package" in history—a man who created more masterpieces of virtually
every musical genre of his day than any other composer before or since?
There is perhaps no better way to explore this question than
by studying his chamber music. Nowhere is Mozart's maturity and mastery
more apparent than in the chamber music he wrote during the last 10
years of his life.
9/14/2013
Mendelssohn, the Nazis and Me - BBC R3 Documentary
Sheila Hayman, a descendant of Mendelssohn's sister Fanny, explores
how Felix tried to reconcile his Christianity with his Jewish roots,
tracing the events from his time to the emergence of the Third Reich. She
talks to conductor Kurt Masur, an Aryan boy in 1930s Berlin, forbidden
to listen to Mendelssohn, and Claus Moser, a Jewish boy in Berlin at the
same time, forbidden to listen to Beethoven and consoled by
Mendelssohn. Steven Isserlis shows how Mendelssohn's own struggle
between his two faiths can be heard in his music. And Hayman's
cousin Cecile, an adolescent in the Third Reich, talks for the first
time of how it felt to be a 'Mischling', belonging neither with Jews
nor Aryans, in a world where being a Mendelssohn had suddenly changed
from a badge of pride to a source of shame, and even mortal danger.
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