Wigmore, Elman
To London for the Wigmore Hall debut of my old group, the Artea String Quartet. Some incandescent Mendelssohn from Tom Gould & Co, followed by extremely moving Shostakovich from Jan Rautio and his piano trio. Look out for both groups; they will be 'hot tickets' sooner rather than later.
More Shostakovich with Jan is coming up [warning: shameless plug coming!] on 25 October at 7.30pm when we perform the Piano Quintet (Op 57) and Blok Verses (Op 127) at the Royal Academy of Music. And because you're switched on
enough to read ViolinMP3.com, you can claim a pair of FREE tickets just for visiting... To find out how, stay tuned to this blog...
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On a totally different note, I'm thrilled to find a Mischa Elman tribute site linking to another where recordings, both electric and pre-electric abound (not in copyright? I don't understand). Horrendous crackles don't negate the extraordinary richness of sound and vibrato; there must be something going on with the first joint of his left hand fingers that creates this kind of warm depth in the sound. I like it. [NB: you'll need Realplayer to listen]
More Shostakovich with Jan is coming up [warning: shameless plug coming!] on 25 October at 7.30pm when we perform the Piano Quintet (Op 57) and Blok Verses (Op 127) at the Royal Academy of Music. And because you're switched on
enough to read ViolinMP3.com, you can claim a pair of FREE tickets just for visiting... To find out how, stay tuned to this blog...--
On a totally different note, I'm thrilled to find a Mischa Elman tribute site linking to another where recordings, both electric and pre-electric abound (not in copyright? I don't understand). Horrendous crackles don't negate the extraordinary richness of sound and vibrato; there must be something going on with the first joint of his left hand fingers that creates this kind of warm depth in the sound. I like it. [NB: you'll need Realplayer to listen]
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