#Jeffrey Biegel

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The Mighty Handful

The Mighty Handful or ‘The Five’ were a qroup of five Russian composers—César Cui, Alexander Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – who, in the 1860s, attempted to create a national school of Russian music, free of the influence of Italian opera, German lieder, and other western European forms. They composed operas on distinct Russian subjects and incorporated…

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I really like these preludes:-

César Cui : 25 Preludes for solo piano Op. 64 (1903)

No. 1 in C major: Allegro maestoso 00:00-01:35 No. 2 in E minor: Moderato assai 01:35-04:55 No. 3 in G major: Allegro 04:55-06:20 No. 4 in B minor: Allegro 06:20-08:45 No. 5 in D major: Allegretto 08:45-11:55 No. 6 in F-sharp minor: Andante 11:45-17:15 No. 7 in A major: Allegro non troppo 17:15-18:55 No. 8 in C-sharp minor: Allegro 18:55-21:35 No. 9 in E major: Andantino 21:35-25:00 No. 10 in G-sharp minor: Allegro non troppo 25:00-27:05 No. 11 in B major: Allegretto 27:05-28:50 No. 12 in E-flat minor: Allegretto 28:50-31:30 No. 13 in F-sharp major: Andante 31:30-36:35 No. 14 in B-flat minor: Moderato 36:35-38:40 No. 15 in D-flat major: Andantino 38:40-41:10 No. 16 in F minor: Andantino 41:10-44:15 No. 17 in A-flat major: Larghetto 44:15-48:05 No. 18 in C minor: Allegretto 48:05-50:25 No. 19 in E-flat major: Allegretto 50:25-51:50 No. 20 in G minor: Allegro non troppo 51:50-54:00 No. 21 in B-flat major: Allegro 54:00-56:40 No. 22 in D minor: Lento 56:40-1:03:05 No. 23 in F major: Allegro non troppo 1:03:05-1:04:30 No. 24 in A minor: Moderato 1:04:30-1:06:00 No. 25 in C major: Allegro non troppo 1:06:00-1:08:15

Performed by Jeffrey Biegel (piano-Bosendorfer).

[johnjpuccio]

Review of “Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue.” Jeffrey Biegel, piano; Adrian Symphony Orchestra. Naturally Sharp Records.

Ever since bandleader Paul Whiteman commissioned American composer George Gershwin to write a jazz-inflected concerto for piano and orchestra, practically every popular pianist since then has elected to record it. Gershwin himself premiered the work with the Whiteman band in 1924, but, surprisingly, there was never a definitive version of it. This was in part because Gershwin improvised a part of the piano score during the first performance, and in part because the man who orchestrated the music, Whiteman’s own arranger Ferde Grofe, didn’t have a lot of time to prepare the music for its premiere. Even the opening clarinet glissando was an improvisation of sorts. Then, within a few years, we would see the score re-arranged for pit orchestra and for full symphony orchestra.

To read the full review, click here:

https://classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2021/10/gershwin-rhapsody-in-blue-cd-review.html

John J. Puccio, Classical Candor

[oconnormusicstudio]

January 8 ~ On This Day in Music

January 8 ~ On This Day in Music

. 1713 ~ Death of Italian composer and violinist Arcangelo Corelli in Rome age 59 . 1830 ~ Hans von Bulow, German pianist and conductor More information about von Bulow . 1906 ~ Arthur Rubinstein made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The concert received only a few favorable reviews. . 1912 ~ Jose Ferrer (Cintron), Academy Award-winning actor, Rosemary Clooney’s husband . 1922 ~…

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'We Gather Together' A Holiday Kickoff  

‘We Gather Together’ A Holiday Kickoff  

arts & entertainment If turkey leftovers are in the fridge, and the holly is being hauled out, the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra has the perfect concert for you! We Gather Together combines the music of both Thanksgiving and Christmas for a festive kickoff of the holiday season. On Sunday afternoon, November 27th, the orchestra will be joined by Grammy Award-winning pianist, Jeffrey Biegel for…

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Biegel, Jeffrey Schirmer Performance Editions Sheet Music

Biegel, Jeffrey Schirmer Performance Editions Sheet Music

[todayclassical]

September 22 in Music History

1720 Birth of German composer and harpsichordist Adolph Karl Kunzen.

1729 Birth of composer George Wilhelm Gruber.

1733 Birth of composer Anton Filtz.

1737 Death of Italian composer Francesco Mancini in Naples. 

1767 Birth of Brazilian composer Jose Nunes Garcia in Rio de Janeiro. 

1755 Birth of German composer and violinist Christian Kalkbrenner in Minden. 

1854 Birth of American music critic and writer Henry T. Finck in Bethel, MO.

1869 FP of Wagner's Das Rheingold in Munich, without his permission. Conducted by Franz Wullner.  

1870 Birth of soprano Georgette Bréjean-Silver.

1870 Birth of American Ragtime composer Arthur Pryor. 

1871 Birth of Spanish soprano Josefina Huguet. 

1871 Birth of German tenor Alois Burgstaller in Holzkirchen.

1872 Birth of English conductor and pianist Walter Henry Rothwell in London. 

1872 Birth of composer Luis Villalba Munoz.

1875 Birth of Lithuanian composer and painter Mikolajus Ciurlionis.

1882 Birth of composer Emil Abranyi.

1883 Birth of Austrian music writer Robert Hernried.

1891 Birth of American tenor and composer Ralph Errolle in Chicago, IL.  

1892 Birth of German-American baritone Herbert Janssen in Cologne. 

1894 Birth of German soprano Elisabeth Rethberg. 

1894 Birth of Rumanian composer Michel G. Andrico in Bucarest.

1894 Birth of composer Hieronim Feicht.

1900 Birth of Russian tenor Ivan Danilovich Jadan in Lugansk. 

1904 Birth of Russia bass Alexei Ivanov in Chizhova.

1905 Death of French soprano Maria Celestine Galli-Marie' in Nice. 

1910 Birth of composer Wlement Slavicky.

1917 Birth of Italian soprano Adriana Guerrini in Florence. 

1918 Birth of Polish-Mexican violinist Henryk Szeryng.

1918 Birth of composer Archibald James Potter.

1922 Death of English baritone Sir Charles Santley, in London. 

1926 Birth of American composer and clarinetist William Overton Smith.

1929 Birth of Canadian composer Serge Garant in Quebec City, Quebec. 

1929 Birth of English violinist Hugh Bean in Beckenham, Kent. 

1930 Birth of American avant-garde composer Roger Hannay in Plattsburgh.

1931 Birth of Italian conductor Nello Santi.

1931 Birth of English Opera director Colin Graham.

1933 Birth of Spanish composer Leonardo Balada in Barcelona.

1938 FP of A. Webern's String Quartet, Op. 28. Berkshire Chamber Music Festival, at South Mountain, Pittsfield, MA.

1940 Birth of composer Edward Boguslawski.

1941 Birth of Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow in Stara Zagora.

1945 Birth of Italian tenor Maurizio Frusoni in Rome. 

1946 Birth of English bass John Tomlinson in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. 

1953 Birth of Russian baritone Vladimir Chernov. 

1958 Birth of American composer Mark Kilstofte.

1961 Birth of American composer Michael Torke in Milwaukee, WI. 

1963 Birth of Italian tenor Luca Canonici in Montevarchi.

1964 FP of Broadway musical Fiddler On the Roof.

1971 FP of S. Barber's The Lovers for solo voice and chorus, based on a poem by Pablo Neruda, in Philadelphia.

1988 Death of Hungarian composer Rezsõ Sugár in Budapest. 

1989 Death of American composer Irving Berlin.

1990 FP of James MacMillan's The Beserking piano concerto. Peter Donohoue and the Royal Scottish Orchestra, Matthias Bamert conducting at Henry Wood Hall in Glasgow.

1990 FP of Christopher Rouse's Jagannath for orchestra. Houston Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach conducting.

2000 FP of E. T. Zwilich's Millennium Fantasy for piano and orchestra. Jeffrey Biegel and Cincinnati Symphony, Jesús Lopez-Cobos conducting.

2000 FP of Philip Glass' Tirol Concerto for piano and orchestra. Dennis Russell Davies, pianist, and conductor with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. 7th annual Klangspuren Festival in Schwaz, Tirol, Austria.

2001 Death of Russian-American violinist Isaac Stern.

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59th Annual Grammy Awards Winners Part 3

Notes

Best Album Notes

Sissle and Blake Sing Shuffle Along

The Complete Monument & Columbia Albums Collection

The Knoxville Sessions, 1929–1930: Knox County Stomp

Ork Records: New York, New York

Waxing The Gospel: Mass Evangelism & The Phonograph, 1890–1990

Ken Bloom & Richard Carlin, album notes writers (Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle)

Mikal Gilmore, album notes writer (Kris Kristofferson)

Ted Olson & Tony Russell, album notes writers (Various Artists)

Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, album notes writers (Various Artists)

Richard Martin, album notes writer (Various Artists)

Historical

Best Historical Album

The Cutting Edge 1965–1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12 (Collector's Edition)

Music of Morocco from the Library of Congress: Recorded By Paul Bowles, 1959

Ork Records: New York, New York

Vladimir Horowitz: The Unreleased Live Recordings 1966–1983

Waxing The Gospel: Mass Evangelism & the Phonograph, 1890–1990

Steve Berkowitz & Jeff Rosen, compilation producers; Mark Wilder, mastering engineer (Bob Dylan)

April G. Ledbetter, Steven Lance Ledbetter, Bill Nowlin & Philip D. Schuyler, compilation producers; Rick Fisher & Michael Graves, mastering engineers (Various Artists)

Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, compilation producers; Jeff Lipton & Maria Rice, mastering engineers (Various Artists)

Bernard Horowitz, Andreas K. Meyer & Robert Russ, compilation producers; Andreas K. Meyer & Jeanne Montalvo, mastering engineers (Vladimir Horowitz)

Michael Devecka, Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin, compilation producers; Michael Devecka, David Giovannoni, Michael Khanchalian & Richard Martin, mastering engineers (Various Artists)

Engineered Album

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Blackstar

Are You Serious

Dig In Deep

Hit N Run Phase Two

Undercurrent

David Bowie, Tom Elmhirst, Kevin Killen & Tony Visconti, engineers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer (David Bowie)

Tchad Blake & David Boucher, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Andrew Bird)

Ryan Freeland, engineer; Kim Rosen, mastering engineer (Bonnie Raitt)

Booker T., Dylan Dresdow, Chris James, Prince & Justin Stanley, engineers; Dylan Dresdow, mastering engineer (Prince)

Shani Gandhi & Gary Paczosa, engineers; Paul Blakemore, mastering engineer (Sarah Jarosz)

Best Engineered Album, Classical

The Ghosts of Versailles

Dutilleux: Sur le même accord; Les Citations; Mystère de l'instant & Timbres, espace, mouvement

Reflections

Shadow of Sirius

Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9

Mark Donahue, Fred Vogler & David L Williams, engineers (James Conlon, Guanqun Yu, Joshua Guerrero, Patricia Racette, Christopher Maltman, Lucy Schaufer, Lucas Meachem, Los Angeles Opera Chorus and Orchestra)

Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, engineers (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)

Morten Lindberg, engineer (Øyvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene)

Silas Brown & David Frost, engineers; Silas Brown

Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Andris Nelsons & Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Producer

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Greg Kurstin

Benny Blanco

Max Martin

Nineteen85

Ricky Reed

"Cheap Thrills" (Sia featuring Sean Paul)

"Hello" (Adele)

Love You to Death (Tegan and Sara)

"Million Years Ago" (Adele)

"Something in the Way You Move" (Ellie Goulding)

"Water Under the Bridge" (Adele)

"Cold Water" (Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber & MØ)

"Friends" (Francis and the Lights featuring Bon Iver)

"Kill Em with Kindness" (Selena Gomez)

"Love Yourself" (Justin Bieber)

"Luv" (Tory Lanez)

"Wild Love" (Cashmere Cat featuring The Weeknd & Francis and the Lights)

"Can't Stop the Feeling!" (Justin Timberlake)

"Dangerous Woman" (Ariana Grande)

"Into You" (Ariana Grande)

"Just Like Fire" (P!nk)

"Rise" (Katy Perry)

"Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" (Adele)

"Side to Side" (Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj)

"For Free" (DJ Khaled featuring Drake)

"Hotline Bling" (Drake)

"Not Nice" (PartyNextDoor)

"One Dance" (Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla)

"Rising Water" (James Vincent McMorrow)

Sept. 5th (dvsn)

"Too Good" (Drake featuring Rihanna)

We Move (James Vincent McMorrow)

"Better" (Meghan Trainor featuring Yo Gotti)

"Cruel World" (Phantogram)

"Girls Talk Boys" (5 Seconds of Summer)

"HandClap" (Fitz and The Tantrums)

"Me Too" (Meghan Trainor)

"No" (Meghan Trainor)

"Sober" (DJ Snake featuring JRY)

"You Don't Get Me High Anymore" (Phantogram)

Producer of the Year, Classical

David Frost

Blanton Alspaugh

Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin

Judith Sherman

Robina G. Young

Bach: The Cello Suites According to Anna Magdalena (Matt Haimovitz)

Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5 (Jonathan Biss)

Brahms & Dvořák: Serenades (Boston Symphony Chamber Players)

Fitelberg: Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble)

Ispirare (Melia Watras)

Overtures To Bach (Matt Haimovitz)

Schoenberg: Kol Nidre; Shostakovich: Suite On Verses Of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Ildar Abdrazakov, Alberto Mizrahi, Riccardo Muti, Duain Wolfe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)

Shadow Of Sirius (Jerry F. Junkin & The University Of Texas Wind Ensemble)

The Aeolian Organ At Duke University Chapel (Christopher Jacobson)

Bolcom: Canciones De Lorca & Prometheus (René Barbera, Jeffrey Biegel, Carl St. Clair, Pacific Chorale & Pacific Symphony)

Brahms: The Four Symphonies (Leonard Slatkin & Detroit Symphony Orchestra)

Copland: Appalachian Spring Complete Ballet; Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (Leonard Slatkin & Detroit Symphony Orchestra)

Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles (James Conlon, Guanqun Yu, Joshua Guerrero, Patricia Racette, Christopher Maltman, Lucy Schaufer, Lucas Meachem, Los Angeles Opera Chorus & Orchestra)

Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (Andrés Orozco-Estrada & Houston Symphony)

Dvořák: Symphony No. 6; Slavonic Dances (Andrés Orozoco-Estrada & Houston Symphony)

Floyd: Wuthering Heights (Joseph Mechavich, Heather Buck, Vale Rideout, Susanne Mentzer, Kelly Markgraf, Georgia Jarman, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra & Florentine Opera Company)

Friedman: Original Piano Compositions (Joseph Banowetz)

Moszkowski: From Foreign Lands (Martin West & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)

American First Sonatas (Cecile Licad)

Berlin: This Is The Life! (Rick Benjamin & Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)

Centennial Commissions, Vol. II (Charles Neidich & Pro Arte Quartet)

Gernsheim & Brahms: Piano Quintets (Reiko Uchida & Formosa Quartet)

Latin American & Spanish Masterpieces For Flute & Piano (Stephanie Jutt)

Similar Motion (Momenta Quartet)

Tchaikovsky: Complete Works For Violin & Orchestra (Jennifer Koh, Alexander Vedernikov & Odense Symphony Orchestra)

Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3-5 & Dumbarton Quintet (Miami String Quartet)

Johnson: Considering Matthew Shepard (Craig Hella Johnson & Conspirare)

Lutosławski: Concerto For Orchestra; Brahms: Piano Quartet (Miguel Harth-Bedoya & Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra)

Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vols. 8 & 9 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 (Vadym Kholodenko, Miguel Harth-Bedoya & Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra)

A Wondrous Mystery – Renaissance Choral Music for Christmas (Stile Antico)

Remixer

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical

"Tearing Me Up" (RAC Remix)

'"Cali Coast" (Psionics Remix)

"Heavy Star Movin'" (staRo Remix)

"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" (Timo Maas & James Teej Remix)

"Only" (Kaskade × Lipless Remix)

"Wide Open" (Joe Goddard Remix)

André Allen Anjos, remixer (Bob Moses)

Josh Williams, remixer (Soul Pacific)

staRo, remixer (The Silver Lake Chorus)

Timo Maas & James Teej, remixers (Paul McCartney & Wings)

Kaskade & Lipless, remixer (Ry X)

Joe Goddard, remixer (The Chemical Brothers)

Surround Sound

Best Surround Sound Album

Dutilleux: Sur le même accord; Les Citations; Mystère de l'instant & Timbres, espace, mouvement

Johnson: Considering Matthew Shephard

Maja S.K. Ratkje: And Sing ...

Primus & The Chocolate Factory

Reflections

Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, surround mix engineers; Dmitriy Lipay, surround mastering engineer; Dmitriy Lipay, surround producer (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)

Brad Michel, surround mix engineer; Brad Michel, surround mastering engineer; Robina G. Young, surround producer (Craig Hella Johnson & Conspirare)

Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Maja S.K. Ratkje, Cikada & Oslo Sinfonietta)

Les Claypool, surround mix engineer; Stephen Marcussen, surround mastering engineer; Les Claypool, surround producer (Primus)

Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Øyvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene)

Classical

Best Orchestral Performance

Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9

Bates: Works for Orchestra

Ibert: Orchestral Works

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 In B-flat major, Op. 100

Rouse: Odna Zhizn; Symphonies 3 & 4; Prospero's Rooms

Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

Neeme Järvi, conductor (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande)

Mariss Jansons, conductor (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)

Alan Gilbert, conductor (New York Philharmonic)

Best Opera Recording

Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles

Handel: Giulio Cesare

Higdon: Cold Mountain

Mozart: Le Nozze De Figaro

Szymanowski: Król Roger

James Conlon, conductor; Joshua Guerrero, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Lucy Schaufer & Guanqun Yu, soloists; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and Chorus)

Giovanni Antonini, conductor; Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Andreas Scholl & Anne-Sofie von Otter, soloists; Samuel Theis, producer (Il Giardino Armonico)

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; Emily Fons, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard & Jay Hunter Morris, soloists; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Singers)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Thomas Hampson, Christiane Karg, Luca Pisaroni & Sonya Yoncheva, soloists; Daniel Zalay, producer (Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Vocalensemble Rastatt)

Antonio Pappano, conductor; Georgia Jarman, Mariusz Kwiecień & Saimir Pirgu, soloists; Jonathan Allen, producer (Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House; Royal Opera Chorus)

Best Choral Performance

Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1

Himmelrand

Janáček: Glagolitic Mass

Lloyd: Bonhoeffer

Steinberg: Passion Week

Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis & Johanna Rusanen, soloists; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, choir)

Elisabeth Holte, conductor (Marianne Reidarsdatter Eriksen, Ragnfrid Lie & Matilda Sterby, soloists; Inger-Lise Ulsrud, accompanist; Uranienborg Vokalensemble, choir)

Edward Gardner, conductor; Håkon Matti Skrede, chorus master (Susan Bickley, Gábor Bretz, Sara Jakubiak & Stuart Skelton, soloists; Thomas Trotter, accompanist; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestra; Bergen Cathedral Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Choir of Collegium Musicum & Edvard Grieg Kor, choirs)

Donald Nally, conductor (Malavika Godbole, John Grecia, Rebecca Harris & Thomas Mesa, soloists; The Crossing, ensemble)

Steven Fox, conductor (The Clarion Choir)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Steve Reich

Fitelberg: Chamber Works

Reflections

Serious Business

Trios fom Our Homelands

Spektral Quartet

ARC Ensemble

Øyvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene

Third Coast Percussion

Lincoln Trio

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway

Adams, J.: Scheherazade.2

Dvorák: Violin Concerto & Romance; Suk: Fantasy

Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vols. 8 & 9

1930's Violin Concertos, Vol. 2

Zuill Bailey; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Nashville Symphony)

Leila Josefowicz; David Robertson, conductor (Chester Englander; St. Louis Symphony)

Christian Tetzlaff; John Storgårds, conductor (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra)

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Gil Shaham; Stéphane Denève, conductor (The Knights & Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Schumann & Berg

Shakespeare Songs

Monteverdi

Mozart: The Weber Sisters

Verismo

Dorothea Röschmann; Mitsuko Uchida, accompanist

Ian Bostridge; Antonio Pappano, accompanist (Michael Collins, Elizabeth Kenny, Lawrence Power & Adam Walker)

Magdalena Kožená; Andrea Marcon, conductor (David Feldman, Michael Feyfar, Jakob Pilgram & Luca Tittoto; La Cetra Barockorchester Basel)

Sabine Devieilhe; Raphaël Pichon, conductor (Pygmalion)

Anna Netrebko; Antonio Pappano, conductor (Yusif Eyvazov; Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia; Orchestra Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia)

Best Classical Compendium

Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle

Gesualdo

Vaughan Williams: Discoveries

Wolfgang: Passing Through

Zappa: 200 Motels

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer

Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor; Manfred Eicher, producer

Martyn Brabbins, conductor; Ann McKay, producer

Judith Farmer & Gernot Wolfgang, producers

The Suites – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Frank Filipetti & Gail Zappa, producers

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway

Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology

Higdon: Cold Mountain

Theofanidis: Bassoon Concerto

Winger: Conversations with Nijinsky

Michael Daugherty, composer (Zuill Bailey, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)

Mason Bates, composer (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Jennifer Higdon, composer; Gene Scheer, librettist

Christopher Theofanidis, composer (Martin Kuuskmann, Barry Jekowsky & Northwest Sinfonia)

C. F. Kip Winger, composer (Martin West & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)

Music Video/Film

Best Music Video

"Formation" – Beyoncé

"River" – Leon Bridges

"Up & Up" – Coldplay

"Gosh" – Jamie XX

"Upside Down & Inside Out" – OK Go

Melina Matsoukas, video director; Candice Dragonas, Juliette Larthe, Nathan Scherrer & Inga Veronique, video producers

Miles Jay, video director; Dennis Beier, Allison Kunzman & Saul Levitz, video producers

Vania Heymann & Gal Muggia, video directors; Candice Dragonas, Juliette Larthe, Nathan Scherrer & Natan Schottenfels, video producers

Romain Gavras, video director; Iconoclast, video producers

Damian Kulash Jr. & Trish Sie, video directors; Melissa Murphy & John O'Grady, video producers

Best Music Film

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week The Touring Years – (The Beatles)

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead – Steve Aoki

Lemonade – Beyoncé

The Music of Strangers – Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble

American Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry – (Various Artists)

Ron Howard, video director; Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Scott Pascucci & Nigel Sinclair, video producers

Justin Krook, video director; Brent Almond, Matt Colon, David Gelb, Ryan Kavanaugh, Michael Theanne, Happy Walters & Matthew Weaver, video producers

Beyoncé Knowles Carter & Kahlil Joseph, video directors; Ed Burke, Steve Pamon, Todd Tourso, Dora Melissa Vargas, Erinn Williams & Beyoncé Knowles Carter, video producer

Morgan Neville, video director; Caitrin Rogers, video producer

George J. Flanigen IV, video director; Steve Buchanan, John Burke & Lindsey Clark, Robert Deaton, Pete Fisher & George J. Flanigen IV, video producers

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Un pionero de transmisiones de música en vivo dice COVID - 19 ha revivido conciertos Live Stream

Un pionero de transmisiones de música en vivo dice COVID – 19 ha revivido conciertos Live Stream

Miguel Cruz Tejada

NUEVA YORK,- El profesor de piano en la escuela de música del Colegio Comunitario Brooklyn College, Jeffrey Biegel, quien fue uno de los pioneros hace 20 años en la transmisión de espectáculos en vivo en internet, dijo que el COVID-19 ha revivido los conciertos Live Stream, debido a las restricciones de cuarentena y aislamiento. “Nunca me imaginé que estos conciertos iban a ser…

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Se presenta por primera vez con la OSX el reconocido pianista Jeffrey Biegel

Se presenta por primera vez con la OSX el reconocido pianista Jeffrey Biegel #Xalapa

David Pérez Olmedo, será el director invitado para este programa (more…)

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Giggles and Grace from the Canton Symphony Orchestra

Giggles and Grace from the Canton Symphony Orchestra

By Tom Wachunas

   Imagine watching a very fine orchestra as it begins to perform the stirring final movement of a symphony. After only a few bars, the violinists abruptly stop playing and start to tune their instruments. Oh, the indignity! Nervous giggles ripple through the audience as the conductor, clearly mortified by such a cacophonous interruption, glares incredulously at his rude ensemble before continuing.

   Such a scenario was actually one of several intentional breaches of symphonic protocol that transpired during the first work on the March 2 program from the Canton Symphony Orchestra at Umstattd Hall. Franz Joseph Hayden’s  Symphony No. 60, Il Distrato (The Distracted, or The Addle-Minded), was an expansion of the incidental music that he originally composed in 1774 for a comedy  by Jean François Regnard about a man named Leandre, who was so absent-minded that he nearly forgot to attend his own wedding.

    Accordingly, Haydn penned a particularly quirky symphony in six movements, rather than the “normal” four, presented here in keeping with the overall theme of the evening, “Humor in Music.”  In mischievously breaking with his own standards of composition that would earn him the epithet, “Father of the Symphony,” Haydn convincingly transformed the orchestra into the persona of the blundering Leandre, creating a work  replete with goofy non-sequiturs and “wrong” music.  For example, the first movement is disrupted by the inclusion of a direct quote from a completely different symphony (No. 45, “The Farewell”). The lovely processional wedding tune in the second movement collides with the sounds of a passing marching band. Elsewhere there are jarring key changes, obtrusive fanfares, and snippets of seemingly random folk tunes. Other than Maestro Gerhardt Zimmermann’s brief lapse into mock horror at the infamous tuning break in the final movement, he and his valiant ensemble navigated this impish farce with delightfully straight-faced, business-as-usual aplomb.

   And now for something completely different: The Carnival of the Animals, scored for two pianos and orchestra in 1886 by Camille Saint-Saëns, and subtitled “a grand zoological fantasy.” Zimmermann took a seat to the side of the orchestra in his role of narrator. Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz, CSO Assistant Conductor, directed this tantalizing tour of the animal kingdom from the podium with infectious zeal. The exhilarating narration, full of whimsical puns and tongue-twisting rhymes, was based on the the comical verses that Ogden Nash wrote in 1949 to accompany each of the work’s 14 movements.  Zimmermann inserted some hilarious improvisations of his own, including a much anticipated singing passage that was more a raucous chant than an actual song, though nonetheless endearing in its throaty chutzpah.

   Meanwhile, guest pianist Jeffrey Biegel and CSO pianist Dean Zhang significantly augmented the onomatopoeic brilliance of the music so magnificently articulated by the ensemble.  With enchanting keyboard magic, they deftly conjured everything from roaring lions, leaping kangaroos, and fish in glittering water, to galloping donkeys, fluttering birds, and even piano students practicing monotonous scale exercises.

  An old show business maxim admonishes, “Leave them laughing when they go.” So it was on this occasion with the final work on the program, Jacques Ibert’s wild, six-movement romp from 1929, Divertissement. The orchestra was clearly very eager to embark on this frenetic excursion into musical eclecticism that included some mild skewering of works by Jacques Offenbach and Johann Strauss Jr. It all ended with a zany evocation of a Keystone Kops chase scene, complete with Maestro Zimmermann frantically blowing a police whistle. And so yes, mission accomplished. We left laughing.

  Something else, however, lingered long after. Despite all of the evening’s boisterous, tweak-your-nose humor, I was left remembering, thankfully, the evening’s most quietly compelling performance – the second (Andante) movement of Dmitri Shostakovitch’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2, composed for his son, Maxim, in 1957.

   Before the intermission, pianist Jeffrey Biegel had regaled us with an utterly stunning rendition of the work, which is for the most part playful, untroubled, and certainly witty. Biegel’s virtuosity was breathtaking, his technique in executing the work’s lavish trills and muscular arpeggiations clear, concise, and thrilling throughout. But it’s the second movement – ironically, anything but humorous – that lifted me up into Biegel’s mesmerizing state of impassioned lyricism. In this protracted moment of emotive profundity, his playing was a warm, slow pouring out of rapturous grace.    

Giggles and Grace from the Canton Symphony Orchestra syndicated post

[lesser-known-composers]

Piano Preludes

Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninov piano preludes are great. However, there are others that are just as good and it makes a change to hear something different - it's kind of refreshing. How about these by the Russian composer and member of the Mighty Handful, Cesar Cui (1835-1918)... Played by Jeffrey Biegel on a great sounding Bosendorfer piano.

[johnjpuccio]

Review of “Fuchs: Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’." Jeffrey Biegel, piano; JoAnn Falletta, London Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.559824

The contemporary American composer, conductor, and professor of composition Kenneth Fuchs (b. 1956) has been writing music for several decades now and has made over a dozen recordings, five of the last six with JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony. His works include music for orchestra, band, chorus, and various chamber ensembles and differ in genre from classical to popular. More important, for those worried that any modern composer is inevitably going to annoy them with dissonant, discordant, unharmonic, atonal notes they don't understand and don't enjoy, be assured that Mr. Fuchs's music is charmingly melodious and approachable.

The four works represented on the present album are all world-première recordings, the first one, the Piano Concerto "Spiritualist" from 2016 featuring American pianist Jeffrey Biegel and inspired by three paintings by Helen Frankenstein. The music is fresh and vigorously pursued by Biegel and Falletta. Although it may not have enough in it to make it truly memorable, it has enough flair to pass an agreeable twenty minutes or so. The second, slow movement is particularly graceful and serene in its outer sections, growing more agitated and turbulent in the middle before settling back into a quiet rest. Taken on its own, it might be worth the price of the whole album.

To read the full review, click here:

https://classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2018/09/fuchs-piano-concerto-spiritualist-cd.html

John J. Puccio, Classical Candor

[oconnormusicstudio]

January 8 in Music History

January 8 in Music History

. 1713 ~ Death of Italian composer and violinist Arcangelo Corelli in Rome age 59

. 1830 ~ Hans von Bulow, German pianist and conductor More information about von Bulow

. 1906 ~ Arthur Rubinstein made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The concert received only a few favorable reviews.

. 1912 ~ Jose Ferrer (Cintron),…

[irguardian]

Grammy winner dazzles during Rhapsody in Blue & Bolero

Grammy winner dazzles during Rhapsody in Blue & Bolero

arts & entertainment Jeffrey Biegel Grammy-winning pianist, Jeffrey Biegel returns to Central Florida to join the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra for Rhapsody in Blue & Bolero at 3:00 PM on Sunday, April 25 at Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center, 1707 16th Street in Vero Beach, 32960.  Biegel will perform Spiritualist, a concerto in three movements by SCSO favorite collaborator and…

[maxwellyjordan]

May 30 roundup

“Leave your 13-year-old home alone? Police can take her into custody under Illinois law” [Jeffrey Schwab, Illinois Policy]

So many stars to sue: Huang v. leading Hollywood names [Kevin Underhill, Lowering the Bar]

Morgan Spurlock’s claim in 2004’s Super Size Me of eating only McDonald’s food for a month and coming out as a physical wreck with liver damage was one that later researchers failed to replicate; now confessional memoir sheds further doubt on baseline assertions essential to the famous documentary [Phelim McAleer, WSJ]

If you’ve seen those “1500 missing immigrant kids” stories — and especially if you’ve helped spread them — you might want to check out some of these threads and links [Josie Duffy Rice, Dara Lind, Rich Lowry]

“Antitrust Enforcement by State Attorney Generals,” Federalist Society podcast with Adam Biegel, Vic Domen, Jennifer Thomson, Jeffrey Oliver, and Ian Conner]

“The lopsided House vote for treating assaults on cops as federal crimes is a bipartisan portrait in cowardice.” [Jacob Sullum, more, Scott Greenfield, earlier on hate crimes model for “Protect and Serve Act”]

Tags: antitrust, attorneys general, Child Protective Services, Illinois, immigration law, McDonald's, movies film and videos, obesity, serial litigants

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