Sergei Rachmaninov.
Rachmaninov: Piano Trios You undoubtedly know Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto #2 and 3; perhaps you also know his symphonies. But what about his chamber music? Most of Rachmaninov’s chamber music was...
View ArticleElena Bashkirova – creating crossroads in music with the Jerusalem...
The drive to make a difference may run in the family, but Elena Bashkirova , married to Daniel Barenboim, has managed to make her own mark on the international cultural music scene as the founding...
View ArticleThis Week in Toronto (Oct. 7 - 13)
This Week in Toronto (Oct. 7 - 13) - Joseph So The Canadian Opera Company's fall season began auspiciously last week with La boheme and Peter Grimes. Both productions are new to Toronto audiences, with...
View ArticleClassical music moving forward to its original roots – the intimate space –...
Classical music used to be heard in salons and palace ballrooms, so it’s not an entirely new concept to present classical music, like other genres long since have, in intimate spaces where audiences...
View ArticleOf Darkness and Radiance: Tribute to Shostakovich #2
Today's MIMIC offering is our second batch of classic recordings of Shostakovich's chamber and concerto masterpieces. From the deep meditations of his celebrated Op. 87 to the masterly Violin and Cello...
View ArticleThis is why they continue to play art music
Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, James Levine, Mikhail Pletnev are the soloists in this performance of Bach’s Concerto for four keyboards in A minor, BWV 1065, at the Verbier Festival on July 22, 2003....
View Article“Bloody daughter”, candid analysis of Martha Argerich
"The Martha Argerich case" might be an alternative title of "Bloody daughter", the documentary by Stéphanie Argerich programmed at the MALBA cinema for January and February Saturday nights. Indeed, her...
View ArticleOrchestra concert!
Event at Carnegie Hall . The Philadelphia Orchestra will give what promises to be an amazing concert on Feb. 21st at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin , who is completing...
View ArticleMartha’s Chamber Music
Martha Argerich : Chamber Ensembles Collection In recent years, Martha Argerich has preferred playing chamber music and collaborating with other top musicians, rather than playing solo. In this...
View ArticleArt, Music and Technology
We’re learning about France in the classroom and also studying the art of the old masters, like Monet, Picasso and van Gogh. Describing styles of art to young children with pictures and techniques is...
View ArticleThe Good, The Shred, and The Ugly
Been a strange few days here in the world of MMmusing. Before I'd even thought about the coming of April Fools Day, my desperate search for a good viola joke about the $45 million Strad led to me...
View ArticleSparrow's Journaling Fixation: {Strike a Chord | The Cello}
There is nothing quite as resonating as the sound of the cello. Its abyssal and persuasive tone that echos throughout its surroundings and lures you in; clothing itself around your entire body. The...
View ArticleMostly Martha – The Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano
“It is all of these great people here who ought to be thanked,” Martha says, surrounded by a throng of festival guests as she awaits that evening’s concert performer, “not me; I just show up,” she...
View ArticleMischa Maisky: The most unbelievable musician I ever met
The ongoing controversy about Isaac Stern has sparked a fascinating conversation about great violinists who, for one reason or other, never became world famous. The name that shot to the top of the...
View ArticleTwo great Russian pianists in Martha’s vineyard
Daniil Trifonov is champion of the new generation, Evgeny Kissin of the middle generation. The photo, last night at Verbier with Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky, feels like a transitional moment....
View ArticleSchumann Quintet!
Robert Schumann : Piano Quartet, and Quintet. Performed by Alexander Melnikov , piano, with the Jerusalem Quartet . The Piano Quintet Op. 44 and the Piano Quartet Op. 47 date from a brief period during...
View ArticleMartha Argerich comes out on a Yiddish record
The Yiddish singer Myriam Fuks is a unique voice on the Brussels music scene, an authentic interpreter of a vanishing legacy in a voice that begins at her boots and gets lower. Myriam has made...
View ArticlePianist Lily Maisky and Cellist Mischa Maisky – musicality in the genes
(This article is published in this month’s German PianoNews magazine.) Lily Maisky – photo credit: Benjamin Brolet As the daughter of world-renowned cellist Mischa Maisky, pianist Lily Maisky always...
View ArticleArgerich concert.
One Great Concert! I always appreciate my DVD recordings, because they transport me to be able to enjoy musical magic. Such was the case last night, when I watched the amazing pianist Martha Argerich ,...
View ArticleWatch: Mischa Maisky plays AC/DC
Not every cellist plays it straight. This is the Amsterdam Cello Biennale this month. Raising the roof at the finale, Mischa Maisky and Giovanni Soulima joined 2Cellos in the AC/DC hit Thunderstruck....
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