December 27, 2010
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our musicians, and classical music lovers! Have a wonderful holiday season, and here to celebrate are two pieces written more than two centuries apart. Bach's Cantata BWV 110, one of the several he wrote for the Christmas day, was first performed in Leipzig on December 25, 1725. Here, in an old recording, is the opening chorus, Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Psalm 126:2). It is performed by the Boys Choir (Knabenchor) of Windsbach, Bavaria, conducted by the choir's founder and director, Hans Thamm, with the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra.
Olivier Messiaen, a deeply religious man, wrote his piano cycle Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus, or Twenty contemplations on the infant Jesus, in 1944. The whole piece takes about two hours to play, but here you can listen to Movement 13, Noël (Christmas), performed by the pianist Minju Choi. Happy listening!
Dmitry Teslov new solo program "Brilliant Fantasy"
02/04/2011 18:00, Russia
Premiere of a new solo program Dmitry Teslov (classical guitar) "Brilliant Fantasy" at the Concert Hall of the Tambov Philharmonic. The program of virtuoso works - masterpieces of the world of guitar music - by composers A. Diabelli, J. K. Mertz, B. Terzi, V. Kozlov, A. Vinitsky, J. Viñas, E. Sainz de la Maza, J. JIRMAL, V. Karlash, D. Fortea, J. Turina.
Details - www.teslov-music.ru
Leoš Janáček - Sonata for Violin and Piano
Rachel Lee (Violin)
Ron Regev (Piano)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata BWV 110
Windsbacher Knabenchor (Chorale)
Kammerorchester Pforzheim (Orchestra)
Hans Thamm (Conductor)
Robert Schumann - Romance in F-sharp Major, Op. 28, No. 2
Felix Buchmann (Piano)
Germaine Tailleferre - La pernette se leve, from Chansons du Folklore de France
Patrice Michaels (Soprano)
Chicago Chamber Musicians (Ensemble)
Piano Quartets with Johannes Dickbauer, Lily Francis and Michael Haas
04/14/2011 00:00,
Violin recital with Helena Baillie
02/20/2011 15:00, Presbyterian Church
Recital at Invalide, Paris
06/27/2011 00:00, Invalide
Ludwig van Beethoven - 12 Variations on a theme from Mozart's "The Magic Flute"
Wendy Law (Cello)
Byron Sean (Piano)