WAfatsim is the first portrait CD of music by Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin, released in 1999. It was reviewed in the Paris Transatlantic Review as “gritty stuff,” featuring “grainy string writing” and “imaginative use of non-European instruments”.
WFrédéric Chopin's compositions for piano and orchestra originated from the late 1820s to the early 1830s, and comprise three concert pieces he composed 1827–1828, while a student at the Central School of Music in Warsaw, two piano concertos, completed and premièred between finishing his studies and leaving Poland, and later drafts, resulting in two more published works. Among these, and the other works in the brilliant style which Chopin composed in this period, the concertos are the most accomplished ones.
WCollegium Records is an English classical music record label founded in 1984 by composer, conductor and singer John Rutter, primarily to record his work with the Cambridge Singers.
WThe Concerti Grossi, Op. 3, HWV 312–317, are six concerti grossi by George Frideric Handel compiled into a set and published by John Walsh in 1734. Musicologists now agree that Handel had no initial knowledge of the publishing. Instead, Walsh, seeking to take advantage of the commercial success of Corelli's Opus 6 Concerti Grossi, simply combined several of Handel's already existing works and grouped them into six "concertos".
WIn classical music, a concerto competition is a competition whereby contestants perform concertos or movements of concertos in a qualifying round, in order to be selected to play their concerto with an orchestra. Typically, the final round is a public concert featuring the finalists performing with orchestra. After the final round, a winner is decided, who may receive an opportunity to perform the complete concerto with the orchestra in their next season.
WOlari Elts is an Estonian conductor. He was the principal conductor of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2006. He is the founder and director of the contemporary music ensemble NYYD Ensemble.
WThe Enchanted Lake, Op. 62, is a symphonic poem by Anatoly Lyadov, subtitled "fairy tale scene", dedicated to Nikolai Tcherepnin and premiered on 21 February 1909 in Saint Petersburg under the baton of the dedicatee. On the borders of symbolism and impressionism, The Enchanted Lake is a single work, not built on a musical theme. André Lischke said of it that "The whole bewitching effect is due to the texture of the instrumentation, to the harmonic metamorphoses, and to the figurations which translate the quivering of the water and the sparkling of the stars which are reflected there, harp)".
WThe English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble are an early music group specializing in music for cornett and sackbut. Formed in 1993, they perform in early music concerts and festivals on period instruments.
WThe English Pastoral School, sometimes called the English Nationalist School or by detractors the Cow Pat School, was a group of English composers of classical music working during the early to mid 20th century, who sought to build a distinctively English style of music by basing their compositions on Tudor music and English folk music. The leading composers of the school were Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst, with other notable figures including George Butterworth, John Ireland, Edmund Rubbra, Gerald Finzi, Ernest John Moeran and Peter Warlock.
WThe term galanteries is sometimes used for movements in the Baroque dance suite whose inclusion is variable, unlike the fixed core of allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue. These pieces usually follow the sarabande.
WThe Guatemala City Choirbooks form a collection of the Roman Catholic liturgical music used in the Cathedral of Guatemala City in the 16th and early 17th centuries. During that time, the cathedral was an important center of Spanish culture in the Americas, with polyphonic music already in use in the 1540s. The choirbooks were copied and bound in 1602 by Gaspar Fernandes who was the cathedral's choirmaster and organist from 1599 until 1606. Several of the books are still in existence and held in the archives of the current Guatemala City cathedral.
WThe Hallische Händel-Ausgabe is a multi-volume collection of the works of George Frideric Handel. It was first published in the 1950s: initially as an adjunct to the HG edition, but by 1958 as a collected edition in its own right. The collection's abbreviation of "HHA" can be used to identify individual works by Handel, for example Handel's Messiah can be referred to as "HHA i/17". For practical use, the HHA numbering of Handel's works has been superseded by the HWV numbering system.
WThe Kosman String Quartet is a name for two different ensembles founded by the violinist Elkan Kosman.
WKate Liu is a Singaporean American classical pianist. On October 20, 2015 she won the third prize and the Polish Radio Award for the best performance of mazurka in the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland.
WOn Wenlock Edge is a song cycle composed in 1909 by Ralph Vaughan Williams for tenor, piano and string quartet. The cycle comprises settings of six poems from A. E. Housman's 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad. A typical performance lasts around 22 minutes. It was premiered by Gervase Elwes, Frederick Kiddle and the Schwiller Quartet on 15 November 1909 in the Aeolian Hall, London. It was later orchestrated by the composer in a version first performed on 24 January 1924. Subsequent editions show a measure excised from the final movement (Clun): the third measure from the end. The Boosey and Hawkes 1946 score notes indicates this in a footnote on the last page. The cycle was recorded by Elwes, Kiddle and the London String Quartet in 1917.
WThe Partita for keyboard No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830, is a suite of seven movements written for the harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was published in 1731 both as a separate work and as part of Bach's Clavier-Übung I.
WAccording to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, there are two kinds of piano duet: "those for two players at one instrument, and those in which each of the two pianists has an instrument to him- or herself." In American usage the former is often referred to as "piano four hands". Grove notes that the one-piano duet has the larger repertory, but has come to be regarded as a modest, domestic form of music-making by comparison with "the more glamorous two-piano duet". The latter is more often referred to as a piano duo.
WLina Ramann was a German writer and teacher known for her books on the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt. Between 1874 and Liszt's death in 1886, she interviewed him and had access to all of his manuscripts and publications in his library. She wrote his authorized biography and the first in-depth critical analysis of his works, all of which were published in three volumes as Franz Liszt als Künstler und Mensch between 1880 and 1894.
WShu Hai Practices Javelin is the second CD of music by Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin released by Mode Records, with music settings of poems by Zohar Eitan whose 1997 poetry collection it borrows. It features prominently German singer and improviser Ute Wassermann, and the vocal writing has been described as reminiscent of that of John Cage, Cathy Berberian and Luciano Berio.
WSinfonietta op. 52 is a small symphony for string orchestra by Albert Roussel composed in 1934. It was premiered on the 19th of November, 1934 by the Orchestre féminin de Paris, conducted by Jane Evrard. It was written at the same time as his fourth symphony. The first movement is a sonata-form.
WThe String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 44, No. 1, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1838. The piece is part of the Op. 44 set of 3 string quartets that Mendelssohn dedicated to the Crown Prince of Sweden.
WThe Symphony in C is a symphony by the French composer Paul Dukas, dedicated to fellow musician Paul Vidal.
WTorre Bermeja is a musical work by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. It was published in a set of piano pieces, his 12 Piezas características, Op.92. The title means "vermilion tower". There are towers of this name at the Alhambra, but Albeniz's piece is believed to be named after the Torre Bermeja, a defensive structure on the Playa de la Barrosa in the Province of Cadiz.
WTree of Life is an album by American group Audiomachine, released on 16 July 2013. The album peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Classical Albums chart.