Hints and tips:
...Pianist Peter Jablonski and Nicholas Collon, conducting the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, light its fuse from the opening bars....
...(You will be expected to keep up with mentions of Bartók and catch the gist of Lady Ottoline Morrell.)...
...Michael Bawtree conducts the London Mozart Players in Barber, Bartok, Peter Aviss’s The Seafarer and a mysterious exploration of The Hythe by Judith Bingham, all leading up to the premiere of Paul Mealor...
...Contemporary, lightly jazz-tinged but with romantic echoes — Debussy, Bartok — sweet and vibrant but melancholy: I struggle to place it....
...high modernism than contemporaries such as Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies (another reason for her neglect, perhaps)....
...Even so, Peter Eotvos’s Multiversum (not actually called a concerto) must be a first....
...The last music I downloaded was Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, a cinematic work with a real narrative, conducted by Pierre Boulez....
...Peter Eötvös’s Senza Sangue, based on the novella by Alessandro Baricco, was created as a counterpart to Bartók’s one-act opera and offers an antidote to that tale’s fatal Romantic confrontation....
...The potentially big news on Friday involved a clangorous, multi-moody, politically and psychologically progressive mini-opera by Peter Eötvös, Senza Sangue....
...Weighed down with depressingly inert material, the show follows a line back to the past where it peters out in confusion....
...Her disc of violin concertos by Bartók, Ligeti and Peter Eötvös eclipsed the claims of better-established artists such as Simon Rattle, András Schiff and Jonas Kaufmann....
...Peter King’s headline spot showcased the saxophonist’s beguiling five-movement chamber work Janus, a 1997 BBC commission combining jazz and string quartets....
...Coming directly between the literalness of the libretto and the mercurial nature of its setting is Dean’s music, which references a wealth of modernist sources from Bartók to Britten while maintaining a...
...The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence at Work , by Tom Peters, HarperBusiness RRP£16.99 The latest from the doyen of modern management: 163 short chapters drawn from Peters’ blog, delivering...
...Without his input the Leeds-based company’s 2006 Peter Grimes would not have been so gripping, nor its recent Werther so stylish....
...On August 19 the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, will perform Bartók’s adaptation of The Miraculous Mandarin, followed by Yefim Brofman playing Salonen’s own Piano Concerto....
...At the John Jay College auditorium on Wednesday, however, Peter Sellars insisted on gilding Kurtág’s exquisitely wilted lily....
...Peter Eötvös conducts with pedestrian pragmatism. There is hardly any dramatic tension and the Vienna Philharmonic is seldom quite together....
...Occasional flashes of Berg and Bartók, and quite a lot of Messiaen, light up the shimmering orchestral colours, though Mason mostly manages to forge them into a sound-world of his own....
...www.eif.co.uk Salzburg Bluebeard’s Castle Peter Eötvös and Johan Simons’ production of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle is a highlight of this year’s Salzburg Festival, which is now in full swing....
...He then devoted five years to a half-hour work for soprano and piano, The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza, which he finished in 1968....
...It was good to pair Luigi Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero with Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle but then it was good to revive Il prigioniero period, even if this one-act opera by the most lyrical of Italian dodecaphonists...
...This season alone includes Lorin Maazel’s 1984 (a derivative musicking of George Orwell), Macbeth with a Japanese conductor, a Peter Stein staging of Bartók and a co-production with Berlin of Prokofiev’s...
...They played Bartók, Tippett and Britten, whose Third Quartet they premiered in December 1976....
...The centrepiece entailed the keyboard cataclysms of Bartók’s Concerto No 1....
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