10/03/2013

New Mozart Edition 2006 Bärenreiter (IX. Piano Music - 7 volumes in PDF)

The New Mozart Edition offers researchers a musicologically unimpeachable text based on all the available sources (generally Mozart's autograph manuscripts). At the same time, it also serves as
an aid to authentic performances.

9/23/2013

'Chopin' - BBC R3 Documentary

             Pianist Piers Lane presents five essays to mark Fredrick Chopin's 200th anniversary.

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

'Mozart 40' BBC R4 Documentary

On the eve of Mozart's 250th anniversary, Huw Edwards visited Vienna to explore current knowledge, and to lay some myths, about Mozart.

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

'Mozart 40' & 'Mozart's Legacy' (BBC R4 Documentary)


On the eve of Mozart's 250th anniversary, Huw Edwards visited Vienna to explore current knowledge, and to lay some myths, about Mozart.

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.