Classical music on Sunday

Nikolaisaal

Alexander Krichel is one of today's most sophisticated pianists, according to broadcaster NDR Kultur. For in him, "intellect and emotion, head and heart, meet." Our "Artist in Residence" thus reveals a soul mate with Johannes Brahms. Like no other composer before him, he strove in his piano concertos for the ideal fusion of pianist and orchestra, for the perfect synthesis of concertante and symphonic elements. He achieved this impressively in his Second Piano Concerto. Initially, the piano and orchestra are finely balanced against each other, then the music becomes more energetic and the symphonic structure more visible. In the Andante, Brahms introduces a second solo instrument, the cello, and pushes the pianist into the background. The music flows song-like and melodic, is enlivened by the piano, and the delicate instrumentation lends it a chamber music charm.

3. Classical Music on Sunday

Exhibition Hall 4

Konzerthalle Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

CYSO ‘s Concert Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra present their Fall concert.

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Concert Orchestra & Philharmonic Orchestra Fall Concert

Northwestern University

To fantasize is to imagine the impossible. In Bernstein’s iconic West Side Story, two lovers reach across the uncrossable boundaries of race and culture. Ulysses Kay conjures variations on a theme that does not yet exist. And Alice Mary Smith breaks through 19th century gender norms to become England’s first female symphonist.

Fanfare & Fantasy

University of Minnesota

Anna Shelest

Clark State Performing Arts Center

Alice Mary Smith was a formidably talented mid-nineteenth century composer who as far as is known wrote the first symphony produced by a woman in this country. The Masque of Pandora was not completed before her untimely death, but its overture is a lively and attractive piece.

BBC Symphony Orchestra in Basingstoke

The Anvil

Rediscovering Women Composers

Hanger Farm Arts Centre

English composer William Walton’s ”coronation march” was written for the coronation of King George VI, and performed in conjunction with this event in Westminster Abbey in 1937. But surely it also sounds a bit like film music? Like a joyful scene from Star Wars perhaps.

Alice Mary Smith

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