sexta-feira, 31 de julho de 2009

Angela Gheorghiu

Tendo por nome de solteira Angela Burlacu, nasceu na vila de Adjud, na Romênia. Filha de um motorista de trem que demonstrava interesse por música clássica.

Assistindo a programas de televisão sobre música erudita, apresentados por Leonard Bernstein, ela e a irmã, Elena, se interessaram desde cedo pelo canto, tornando-se pequenas celebridades em sua cidade natal.

Aos 14 anos, foi encaminhada ao Liceu George Enescu, em Bucareste, para aprimorar seus talentos,[2] onde se tornou aluna de Mia Barbu - de quem disse "ser sua única professora" -, que tentou fazê-la entrar nas aulas de canto clássico, que só admitiam alunos a partir de 16 anos. Assim, Gheorghiu teve de estudar por dois anos em classes de música popular.

Depois desse período, foi para a Academia de Música da capital e lá se graduou aos 23 anos. Sua estréia profissional teve lugar em 1990, como a Mimì de La Bohème, na Ópera de Cluj.

Após a queda do regime de Nicolae Ceausescu, Gheorghiu pôde desenvolver sua carreira internacional, aparecendo em concertos televisivos em Amsterdã e fazendo audições no Covent Garden, onde foi convidada a debutar em La Bohème. A soprano, porém, preferiu algo mais singelo, e assim debutou em 1992 como Zerlina, de Don Giovanni. De todo modo, causou excelente impressão, e seguiram-se participações na Wiener Staatsoper em 1992 (Adina, L'Elisir d'Amore), e no Metropolitan Opera de Nova York em 1993 (Mimì).

Em 1994, fez testes com Georg Solti para uma nova produção de La Traviata. Supõe-se que, após ouvi-la, o regente disse: "I was in tears. I had to go out. The girl is wonderful. She can do anything!" ("Eu caí em lágrimas. Precisava sair dali. Essa moça é maravilhosa. Ela pode fazer qualquer coisa!").[4] De fato, do dia para noite, sua primeira Violetta catapultou Gheorghiu para a fama.
Em 1996, Angela Gheorghiu casou-se com o tenor francês Roberto Alagna. Desde então, os dois formam um dos mais famosos casais da ópera, cantando diversas vezes juntos tanto nos palcos quanto em estúdios

Angela GHEORGHIU - Vissi d'arte - Tosca - Puccini

Angela GHEORGHIU - Habanera - Carmen - Bizet

Angela Gheorghiu - Sempre Libera - La Traviata - Verdi

Angela GHEORGHIU - O mio babbino caro - G Schicchi - Puccini

Angela GHEORGHIU - Un bel di vedremo - M Butterfly - Puccini

Angela Gheorghiu - Lara - Granada

terça-feira, 28 de julho de 2009

Magnificat (BWV 243) by Johann Sebastian Bach. Conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.


Nikolaus Harnoncourt

O maestro austríaco Nikolaus Harnoncourt nasceu em 1929 em Berlim. Viveu toda a sua infância e juventude em Graz, onde realizou os seus primeiros estudos musicais. Prosseguiu depois a aprendizagem do violoncelo na Academia de Música de Viena.

Entre 1952 e 1969 o então violoncelista Nikolaus Harnoncourt foi membro da Orquestra Sinfónica de Viena. Em 1953 fundou o agrupamento Concentus Musicus de Viena, juntamente com a sua esposa, a violinista Alice Harnoncourt.
Entre 1972 e 1993, Nikolaus Harnoncourt lecionou na Escola Superior de Música Mozarteum de Salzburgo. A sua atividade encontra-se documentada por dois livros publicados pela Residenzverlag.
Desde 1971, Nikolaus Harnoncourt tem vindo a trabalhar, entre outras cidades, em Viena, Zurique e Amsterdão, dirigindo um vasto repertório operático que se estende de Monteverdi a Richard Strauss. Apresenta-se igualmente em concerto, à frente das mais destacadas orquestras. A sua obra encontra-se documentada por numerosas gravações bem sucedidas junto da crítica e do público.
No decurso da sua brilhante carreira, Nikolaus Harnoncourt tem vindo a receber diversos prémios e distinções honoríficas.

Bach - Magnificat - 1 - Magnificat anima mea

Bach - Magnificat - 2 - Et exsultavit

Bach - Magnificat - 3&4 - Quia respexit - Omnes generationes

Bach - Magnificat - 5 - Quia fecit mihi magna

Bach - Magnificat - 6 - Et misericordia

Bach - Magnificat - 7 - Fecit potentiam

Bach - Magnificat - 8 - Deposuit potentes

Bach - Magnificat - 9 - Esurientes implevit bonis

Bach - Magnificat - 10 - Suscepit Israel

Bach - Magnificat - 11 - Sicut locutus est

Bach - Magnificat - 12 - Gloria patri

terça-feira, 21 de julho de 2009

VADIM REPIN E NIKOLAI LUGANSKY

Born in 1971 in Novosibirsk, (Russia), Vadim Repin began playing the violin at the age of five and after only six months made his first public appearance. He studied in his hometown with Zakhar Bron. At the age of seven he gave his first performance with orchestra, at eleven, his St. Petersburg recital debut. His international breakthrough came in 1989, when Repin became the youngest-ever winner of the world’s most prestigious and demanding violin competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.
Since then Vadim Repin has appeared with the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors. He is also a frequent guest at festivals such as the Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Rheingau, Verbier and the BBC Proms. His “Carte blanche” invitation to the Louvre in Paris resulted in a prize-winning live recording of music performed with colleagues including the gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos. His chamber-music partners have included Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, Evgeny Kissin, Nikolai Lugansky, Mischa Maisky and Mikhail Pletnev.
The violinist has won numerous prizes including an Echo Award as “Instrumentalist of the Year 1999”, the Diapason d’or, the Prix Caecilia and the Edison Award.
Vadim Repin performs on the 1736 “Von Szerdahely” violin made by Guarnieri del Gesú.
Nikolai Lugansky (Николай Луганский) is a Russian pianist, born on April 26th, 1972 in Moscow. He studied piano at the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Conservatory. His teachers included Tatiana Kestner, Tatiana Nikolayeva and Sergei Dorensky.
During the 80's and early 90's, Lugansky won prizes at numerous piano competitions. At the same time he began to make recordings on the Melodiya (USSR) and Vanguard Classics (Netherlands) labels. His performance at the Winners' Gala Concert of the 10th International Tchaikovsky Competition was recorded and released on the Pioneer Classics label, on both CD and video laser disc formats. This was followed by more recordings for Japanese labels. He later recorded for Warner Classics (UK) and Pentatone Classics (Netherlands).
Lugansky has performed together with Vadim Repin, Alexander Kniazev, Joshua Bell, Yuri Bashmet and Mischa Maisky, among others.
In addition, Lugansky has collaborated with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Kurt Masur, Mikhail Pletnev, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Simonov, Leonard Slatkin, Vladimir Spivakov, Evgeny Svetlanov, Yuri Temirkanov and Edo de Waart.
As well as performing and recording, Lugansky teaches at the Moscow Conservatory.

Repin & Lugansky Play Schubert Fantasy part.1

Repin & Lugansky Play Schubert Fantasy part.2

Repin & Lugansky Play Schubert Fantasy part.3

Vadim Repin and Nikolai Lugansky play Tchaikovsky "Melody" from Souvenir d'un lieu cher

Repin & Lugansky Play Tchaikovsky Valse Scherzo

Vadim Repin and Nikolai Lugansky play Bartok Rumanian Folk Dance

Repin & Lugansky Play Schoenberg Fantasy

Vadim Repin and Nikolai Lugansky play Paganini Carnival of Venice

segunda-feira, 20 de julho de 2009

ARCADI VOLODOS

Born in Leningrad in 1972, he began his musical training studying voice, following the example of his parents, who were singers, and later shifted his emphasis to conducting while a student at the Capilla M. Glinka School and the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Though he had played the piano from the age of eight, he did not devote himself to serious study of the instrument until 1987 at the conservatory in his hometown with Leonid Sintsev. His formal piano training took place at the Moscow Conservatory with Galina Egiazarova. Volodos also studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Rouvier. In Madrid, he studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with Dimitri Bashkirow.


Despite the relative brevity of his formal studies, Volodos has been naturally and rapidly propelled into the elite pantheon of the world's most important pianists. Thomas Frost, the producer of many of Horowitz's recordings, and producer of Volodos' recordings for Sony Classical, has said that Volodos "has everything: imagination, colour, passion and a phenomenal technique to carry out his ideas."


Volodos received the German award "ECHO Klassik" as the best instrumentalist of 2003.

Volodos - Liszt - Arr. Volodos Après une Lecture de Dante Fantasia P.1

Volodos - Liszt - Arr. Volodos Après une Lecture de Dante Fantasia P.2

segunda-feira, 13 de julho de 2009

AGRADECIMENTOS A LEANDRO GUEREN

LEANDRO GUEREN, é um pianista Argentino que muito gentilmente me enviou a partitura de Adiós Nonino Rapsódia de Astor Piazzolla, para piano.
Tenho procurado por vários anos essa partitura, (ele também), e quando a conseguiu, mandou-me no mesmo dia. Não é um gentleman?
Mais uma vez, muchas gracias Leandro.
Beijo.
Nádya

Lorena Eckell interpreta Adiós Nonino y Rapsodia de Astor Piazzolla

Piazzolla "Adios Nonino" Tango Raphsody

TCHAIKOVSKY - TRIO No.2, Para Piano, Violino e Cello

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski, TRIO PARA PIANO EM LA MENOR, Op. 50


UM DOS MAIS BELOS TRIOS PARA PIANO DO PERIODO ROMANTICO, AQUI APRESENTADO PELOS EXCELENTES MÚSICOS:


Susanna Yoko Henkel - violin


Monika Leskovar - cello


Ian Fountain - piano


Live at the Zagreb International Chamber Music Festival 2008

domingo, 12 de julho de 2009

quinta-feira, 9 de julho de 2009


Gil Shaham (born February 19, 1971) is an award-winning violinist of Israeli descent. He was born in Urbana, Illinois, during a short academic visit to the University of Illinois by his parents, both Israeli scientists - the astrophysicist Jacob Shaham[1] and the cytogeneticist Meira Diskin. The family returned to Jerusalem when Gil Shaham was two. At age seven, Shaham began taking violin lessons from Samuel Bernstein at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. In 1980, when Shaham was nine years old, he played for Isaac Stern, Nathan Milstein and Henryk Szeryng, and attended the Aspen Music School in Colorado, studying with Dorothy DeLay (the teacher of many other leading artists, including Itzhak Perlman) and Jens Ellerman.

Shaham is well known for having filled-in for various injured or unavailable virtuosi in many concerts. Notable replacements over the years include performing in the place of Itzhak Perlman, James Galway, Maxim Vengerov and Wynton Marsalis.

At age 10, Shaham debuted as soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony, conducted by the violinist Alexander Schneider. Less than a year later Shaham performed with Israel's foremost orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, which was conducted by Zubin Mehta. At age 11, in 1982, Shaham won first prize in the Claremont Competition and was admitted to the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. In addition, both he and his younger sister, the pianist Orli Shaham, attended Columbia University.

Shaham's career took off in 1989 when he was called to replace an ailing Itzhak Perlman for a series of concerts with Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra. Flying to London on a day's notice, he played both the Bruch and the Sibelius concertos to glowing reviews.

In 1990 he received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. In 1992 he was awarded the Premio Internazionale of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena

Shaham has established himself as a leading violin virtuoso. He has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, among them the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and many others

Gil Shaham - Sibelius, Concerto Violino - Mov. 1, P.1

Gil Shaham - Sibelius, Concerto Violino - Mov. 1, P.2

Gil Shaham - Sibelius, Concerto Violino - Mov. 2

Gil Shaham - Sibelius, Concerto Violino - Mov. 3

terça-feira, 7 de julho de 2009

Melomania: amando a Música Clássica: O Mundo da Sinfonia: a 1ª de Mahler

Melomania: amando a Música Clássica: O Mundo da Sinfonia: a 1ª de Mahler

Mahler Symphony No. 1 "Titan" Part I 1/2

Mahler Symphony No. 1 "Titan" Part I 2/2

Mahler Symphony No. 1 "Titan" Part II

Mahler Symphony No. 1 "Titan" Part III 1/2

Mahler Symphony No. 1 "Titan" Part III 2/2

Mahler Symphony No. 1 "Titan" Part IV 1/3

Mahler Symphony No. 1 "Titan" Part IV 2/3

Mahler Symphony No. 1 "Titan" Part IV 3/3

sexta-feira, 3 de julho de 2009

Sviatoslav Richter um dos Titãs do Piano no sec.XX

Biography:Born: March 20, 1915 - Zhitomir, Russia (in the territory of modern Ukraine)Died: August 1, 1997 - Moscow, Russia.

Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (Russian: Святосла́в Теофи́лович Ри́хтер) was a Soviet pianist of German extraction (German father). He was widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, and is sometimes proposed as the greatest of all. He was well known for his vast repertoire, effortless technique and poetic phrasing.

Sviatoslav Richter was born in Zhitomir but grew up in Odessa. Unusually, he was largely self-taught although his organist father provided him with a basic education in music. Even at an early age, Richter was an excellent sight-reader, and regularly practiced with local opera and ballet companies. He developed a lifelong passion for opera, vocal and chamber music that found its full expression in the festival he established in Grange de Meslay, France.

He started to work at the Odessa Conservatory where he accompanied the opera rehearsals. He gave his first recital in 1934 at the engineer club of Odessa but did not formally study piano until three years later, when he enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory, which waived the entrance exam for the young prodigy after it was clear he would not pass. He studied with Heinrich Neuhaus who also taught Emil Gilels, and who claimed Richter to be "the genius pupil, for whom he had been waiting all his life".

In 1940, while still a student, he gave the world premiere of the Sonata No. 6 by Sergei Prokofiev, a composer with whose works he was ever after associated. He also became known for skipping compulsory political lessons at the conservatory and being expelled twice during his first year. Richter remained a political outsider in the U.S.S.R. and never joined the Party.

Sviatoslav Richter met the soprano Nina Dorliak in 1945 when he accompanied her in a program that included songs by Rimsky-Korsakov and Prokofiev. "This was the first meeting in an association that would last the rest of their lives. Richter and Dorliak were never officially married, but they were constant companions. She was the practical counterbalance to his impulsive nature. She would wind his watch for him, remind him of appointments, and manage his professional commitments" (Geffen 1999).

In 1949 he won the Stalin Prize, which led to extensive concert tours in Russia, Eastern Europe and China. The West first became aware of Sviatoslav Richter through recordings made in the 1950's. He was not allowed to tour the United States until 1960, but when he did, he created a sensation, playing a series of sold-out concerts in Carnegie Hall. Touring, however, was not Richter's forté. He preferred not to plan concerts years in advance, and in later years took to playing on very short notice in small, often darkened halls, sometimes with only a small lamp lighting his piano.

He died in Moscow while studying for a concert series he was to give.

Sviatoslav Richter's repertoire spanned the major works of the piano repertoire, although with many omissions (e.g., Bach's Goldberg Variations (BWV 988), Beethoven's Waldstein sonata and Fourth and Fifth piano concertos, Schubert's A-major sonata D. 959). Among his noted recordings are works by Franz Schubert, Beethoven, Bach (whose Well-Tempered Clavier part II he is said to have learned by heart in one month), Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Scriabin and many others. He was said to be the finest interpreter of the piano works of Robert Schumann. He gave the premiere of Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7 (which he learned in just four days before staging a performance of the work), and Prokofiev dedicated his Sonata No. 9 to him.

Apart from playing solo he also enjoyed playing chamber music with partners such as David Oistrakh, Benjamin Britten, and Mstislav Rostropovich. He had unusually large hands, capable of taking a twelfth. Despite his huge discography, Sviatoslav Richter hated the process of recording. Glenn Gould called him one of the most powerful musical communicators of our time, and it was in concert that Richter's musical genius found its full expression

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 1)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 2)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 3)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 4)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 5)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 6)

lav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 7)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 8)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 9)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 10)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 11)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 12)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 13)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 14)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 15)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 16)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 17)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 18)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 19)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 20)

Sviatoslav Richter 1989 London Recital (part 21)

quinta-feira, 2 de julho de 2009

Piano Solo ou Orquestrado?

Continuando o Tema levantado no Blog do João Luis Prada, só que de maneira um pouco diferente, porque nesse caso Ravel escreveu as duas versões. Apreciem e me digam qual preferem...

CELIBIDACHE - RAVEL , Alborada del Gracioso

RICHTER-RAVEL,Alborada del Gracioso

J.S.Bach - Toccata e Fuga em Re menor