Saturday, March 11, 2006

Mozart Violin Concertos - CD REVIEWS (San Francisco Chronicle)



CD REVIEWS (San Francisco Chronicle)
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) BILLY ELLIOT Is Elton John the new Andrew Lloyd Webber? With "The Lion King" settled in for what could be a "Cats"-like forever, John's "Lestat" is following it to Broadway, where it may have as short a run as Lloyd Webber'...
Send No Flowers - LA Weekly

Send No Flowers
LA Weekly, CA - Mar 8, 2006
... Gidon Kremer played his violin concertos here with the ... 1, which is actually for violin and small ... Schnittke, in other words), somewhat Mozart-permeated with ...

Symphony concert mixed bag
MySanAntonio - The San Antonio Symphony elegantly performed a blend of baroque, classical and romantic pieces last weekend at the Majestic Theatre. Eminent guest conductor and violinist Pinchas Zukerman led the orchestra. Antonio Vivaldi's "Concerto in B-flat major ...
New Recordings (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Pop Know what no one ever asks? Where's all the doggone great electronic dance-pop from Scotland's high hills? Producer Myles "Mylo" Macinnes answered two years ago with Destroy's mix of Hi-Energy electronics and liquid down-tempos. In the U.K. Now ready for the U.S., Mylo doesn't so much abolish rock (ardent guitars here, a Kim Carnes sample there, big drums everywhere) as slap it away for his
Send No Flowers - LA Weekly

Send No Flowers
LA Weekly, CA - Mar 8, 2006
... Gidon Kremer played his violin concertos here with the ... 1, which is actually for violin and small ... Schnittke, in other words), somewhat Mozart-permeated with ...

Friday, March 10, 2006

Mozart Violin Concertos - New Recordings (The Philadelphia Inquirer)



New Recordings (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Pop Know what no one ever asks? Where's all the doggone great electronic dance-pop from Scotland's high hills? Producer Myles "Mylo" Macinnes answered two years ago with Destroy's mix of Hi-Energy electronics and liquid down-tempos. In the U.K. Now ready for the U.S., Mylo doesn't so much abolish rock (ardent guitars here, a Kim Carnes sample there, big drums everywhere) as slap it away for his
Send No Flowers - LA Weekly

Send No Flowers
LA Weekly, CA - Mar 8, 2006
... Gidon Kremer played his violin concertos here with the ... 1, which is actually for violin and small ... Schnittke, in other words), somewhat Mozart-permeated with ...

Golden moments planned in two appealing premieres
Birmingham Post - Birmingham Conservatoire's Adrian Boult Hall hosts two premieres this weekend, beginning tomorrow when the Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra is joined by the Maraca2 percussion duo for the first UK performance of the Goldrush Concerto for Percussion ...
Academy of Ancient Music, St John's Smith Square, London (Independent)
Favourite of Frederick the Great, pioneer of Sturm und Drang, singer, virtuoso violinist and teacher, Franz Benda is one of the most influential figures in the history of the violin. The great 19th-century virtuoso Joachim is said to have honed his technique on Benda's Etudes. And I fancy there might even have been a brief flash of the concerto Brahms wrote for Joachim some 90 years after Benda's

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Mozart Violin Concertos - With strings attached (The Times of Northwest Indiana)



With strings attached (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
At age 3, Amy Beth Horman decided where she wanted to go with her life when her parents took her to a National Symphony Orchestra concert. She identified with the female violin soloist.
BachSoc Adds Variation in Tribute to Mozart - Harvard Crimson

BachSoc Adds Variation in Tribute to Mozart
Harvard Crimson, MA - Mar 7, 2006
... was primarily a showcase for a violin player of ... There are composers whose concertos highlight both soloist ... shone during its rendition of Mozart s Symphony ...

Symphony concert mixed bag
MySanAntonio - The San Antonio Symphony elegantly performed a blend of baroque, classical and romantic pieces last weekend at the Majestic Theatre. Eminent guest conductor and violinist Pinchas Zukerman led the orchestra. Antonio Vivaldi's "Concerto in B-flat major ...
The New Season (Playbill Arts)
Robert Sandla looks at the New York Philharmonic's plans for the 2006-07 season.

Mozart Violin Concertos - Academy of Ancient Music, St John's Smith Square, London (Independent)



Academy of Ancient Music, St John's Smith Square, London (Independent)
Favourite of Frederick the Great, pioneer of Sturm und Drang, singer, virtuoso violinist and teacher, Franz Benda is one of the most influential figures in the history of the violin. The great 19th-century virtuoso Joachim is said to have honed his technique on Benda's Etudes. And I fancy there might even have been a brief flash of the concerto Brahms wrote for Joachim some 90 years after Benda's
Strung out on Mozart - Bay Area Reporter


Bay Area Reporter
Strung out on Mozart
Bay Area Reporter, CA - Feb 16, 2006
Shot from bows around the world, Mozart on strings was first off the block, en masse anyway. All the violin concertos are already on the shelf in spanking-new ...

Golden moments planned in two appealing premieres
Birmingham Post - Birmingham Conservatoire's Adrian Boult Hall hosts two premieres this weekend, beginning tomorrow when the Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra is joined by the Maraca2 percussion duo for the first UK performance of the Goldrush Concerto for Percussion ...
New Recordings (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Pop Know what no one ever asks? Where's all the doggone great electronic dance-pop from Scotland's high hills? Producer Myles "Mylo" Macinnes answered two years ago with Destroy's mix of Hi-Energy electronics and liquid down-tempos. In the U.K. Now ready for the U.S., Mylo doesn't so much abolish rock (ardent guitars here, a Kim Carnes sample there, big drums everywhere) as slap it away for his

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Mozart Violin Concertos - With strings attached (The Times of Northwest Indiana)



With strings attached (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
At age 3, Amy Beth Horman decided where she wanted to go with her life when her parents took her to a National Symphony Orchestra concert. She identified with the female violin soloist.
Classical CD Reviews - Taipei Times

Classical CD Reviews
Taipei Times, Taiwan - Feb 15, 2006
... But for me these new Mozart piano concerto recordings may sell well ... of Nikolaj Znaider's new recordings of the well-known violin concertos of Mendelssohn and ...

Golden moments planned in two appealing premieres
Birmingham Post - Birmingham Conservatoire's Adrian Boult Hall hosts two premieres this weekend, beginning tomorrow when the Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra is joined by the Maraca2 percussion duo for the first UK performance of the Goldrush Concerto for Percussion ...
The New Season (Playbill Arts)
Robert Sandla looks at the New York Philharmonic's plans for the 2006-07 season.
The New Season - PlaybillArts

The New Season
PlaybillArts, NY - 19 hours ago
... the composer's four symphonies, four concertos, Ein deutsches ... in each piece, while my Mozart and Stravinsky ... in March, includes Ligeti's Violin Concerto, which ...