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Editorial for October/November, 2018

Editorial for October/November, 2018

by | Oct 17, 2018 | Editorial

The Glorious Violin — Music@Menlo Live! We are featuring a superb collection from the Music@Menlo series, featuring the violin in all its glory! This 8 CD box set features a broad range of ensembles—solo violin, string duos, quartets, quintets, and even one octet and other chamber ensembles.  The composers date back from early Italian/Baroque through the 20th Century, including Tartini (yes, The Devil’s Trill), Bach, Schumann, Brahms, Ysaÿe, Beethoven, Kreisler… This promotion is provided by Music@Menlo, taken from their summer series entitled The Glorious Violin, with more info here.     Audiophile Audition has reviewed this release earlier this year:  The Glorious Violin Review. To enter in the drawing for this exceptional release, merely fill out the form here:  Register to win. Recently, Denver hosted The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest; our intrepid Audiophile writer Ric Mancuso was there, boots-on-the-ground, taking it all in.  He will be providing his impressions—though an event far too vast to be by even an army of reporters! AUDIOPHILE AUDITION began as a local program in San Francisco and then in 1985 as a weekly national radio series hosted by John Sunier, and aired for 13½ years on up to 200 public radio and commercial stations. In September […]

The Music Treasury for 12 October 2018 — Jiří Bělohlávek

The Music Treasury for 12 October 2018 — Jiří Bělohlávek

by | Oct 14, 2018 | Streams and Podcasts

This week’s episode of The Music Treasury will feature that Czech conductor, Jiří Bělohlávek.  The show will air from 19:00 to 21:00 PDT from Stanford University on KZSU; there is simultaneous streaming on the  ‘Net as well:  kzsu.stanford.edu Bělohlávek had quite the career of distinction, and champion of Czech music.  Additional details are appended below; as always, the show is hosted by Dr Gary Lemco. Jiří Bělohlávek, conductor Jiří Bělohlávek (CBE24 February 1946 – 31 May 2017) was a Czech conductor. A leading interpreter of Czech classical music, he became chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in 1990, a role he served on two occasions (1990–92, 2012–17). He also served a six-year tenure as the chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2012. He gained international renown and repute for his performances of the works of Czech composers such as Antonín Dvořák and Bohuslav Martinů, and was credited as “the most profound proponent of Czech orchestral music” by Czech music specialist Professor Michael Beckerman. Bělohlávek was born in Prague. His father was a barrister and judge. In his youth he studied cello with Miloš Sádlo and later graduated from the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in […]