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Her renditions of eight Gershwin songs, including "Lady Be Good" and "I Got Rhythm," brought out the composer's jazz roots as well as his classical ambitions, with resounding chords and passages of such spontaneity that they sounded improvised.
Al Fresco in Rome, Pianist Valeria Vetriccio Plays Gershwin and Chopin Francis X. Rocca 2011
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It would be very misleading to claim that Bayreuth is in denial about its Nazi past, especially under the new generation who took over the festival from the composer's long-lived and conservative grandson Wolfgang, who died last year.
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The Emerson played selections from Mendelssohn's Four Pieces, Op. 81, nicely, though this music isn't the composer's strongest suit.
Emerson opens string quartet festival with well-played Schonberg Post 2011
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After the passage on "The Messiah," the Durants continue on with the composer's life and eventually reach five years later, April of 1747, when Handel had hit hard times.
Robert J. Elisberg: You Can't Handel the Truth: A Holiday Tradition Robert J. Elisberg 2011
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As original as the Schonberg is, it still testifies to the young composer's musical surroundings: the symphonic magnitude and programmatic story lines of Richard Strauss's tone poems, Wagner's endless chains of unresolved harmonies and Brahms's dense logic.
Emerson opens string quartet festival with well-played Schonberg Post 2011
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The latest Victoria disc from Westminster Cathedral arrives at the end of a year that has seen a number of important releases to mark the 400th anniversary of the composer's death.
Victoria: Missa de Beata Maria Virgine; Missa Surge Propera etc – review 2011
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Andras Schiff, a lifelong advocate of Schumann, has returned to manuscript sources for this recital, which begins early with Papillons, Op 11 and spans the composer's career through to Geistervariationen "Ghost Variations", in the middle of writing which Schumann attempted suicide.
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The work—volume four of the composer's "American Songbook" series—orchestrates Civil War tunes and spirituals in a haunting and unconventional manner.
At Ojai, New Music Was Once Its Strength David Mermelstein 2011
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While her dogmatic assertion might seem a little quaint today, a new exhibition at the Bach House, the composer's birthplace makes clear just how influential Landowska has been in the way we think about and appreciate Bach's music.
Remembering the Heroine of the Harpsichord A. J. Goldmann 2011
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The composer's gray eyes stare at the main attraction, the recently renovated Lace Museum.
Awakening the Sleepy Island of Burano Alessia Pirolo 2011
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