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Monthly Archives: March 2011
The King’s Speech – and Beethoven
We’ve all heard about it, and many have seen it – this Oscar-winning film. The scene that struck me was the one pictured left, towards the end. It’s a climactic scene, but it was the music that gripped me – … Continue reading
For Sale – Recording Studio
Sitting here at midnight in Melbourne, catching up with online news from the UK, it was sad to see this report (scroll down to the 29 March blogpost) of Potton Hall being up for sale. My Liszt CD was recorded there a … Continue reading
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A quick trip Down Under
I’m off soon to Australia to give concerts and masterclasses. The repertoire features Liszt – no surprise there – also some Chopin (transcribed by Liszt), Mendelssohn and Alkan, Hewitt Jones, and some Grainger, since it is an anniversary of his too, … Continue reading
Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa – or Bononcini?
‘Vado ben spesso cangiando loco’ goes this bright and cheerful marching-song, with a catchy melody long attributed to the poet/painter/actor Salvator Rosa , but in fact written by a fellow-Italian, Bononcini. Liszt’s straightforward transcription of it in the Italian Année is the perfect foil for … Continue reading
A Room With a View – or not. Il Penseroso
Watch the film ‘A Room with a View’ on a cold, wet, grey, dismal day in winter, and within the hour you’ll be planning a summer holiday in Tuscany. That’s how we ended up staying near Florence one year, seeing for ourselves the piazzas, the … Continue reading
Sposalizio and the Golden Legend
Raphael’s oil painting Lo Sposalizio della Vergine was completed in 1504, and hangs in the Brera Gallery in Milan. It depicts the marriage of Mary and Joseph, and illustrates a legend in which Mary’s suitors each placed a branch on an altar; Joseph’s branch blossomed, and thus he … Continue reading
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And so to Italy…
Fast-forward to August 1837. Liszt and Marie d’Agoult are crossing the Simplon Pass from Switzerland to Italy. They have visited their daughter Blandine, en route; she lives with a foster family. Marie is pregnant with their second child, who will … Continue reading
Lisztomania hits London
Lisztomania, the Royal College of Music’s Liszt Festival celebrating the bicentenary of his birth, gets underway on March 4. It features solo and duo performances, a lecture-recital from Leslie Howard, a masterclass with Tamas Vasary, works for organ, and Csárdás – a whole day of … Continue reading