The 5th International Theobald Böhm Competition for Flute and Alto Flute will take place from Monday 7 March to Wednesday 10 March 2022 in the Kleiner Konzertsaal of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in the Arcisstraße 12. The entrance to the competition and to the winner’s concert on 10 March 2022 at 18.00 is free.
Until a few decades ago, if you wanted to record a piece for solo flute or for a musical ensemble, you had to go to a recording studio, pay for the room, equipment and technicians, and wait several days for our recording.
In fact, few were the musicians who could afford this “luxury”: for most, it was simply a dream.
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This Sonata was written in Alma Ata during the painful years of the Second World War. Performed for the first time in 1943 by the flutist Charkovsky, “accompanied” on the piano by Sviatoslav Richter, the composer subsequently made a version for violin and piano, in collaboration with David Oistrakh. The piece still represents today an authentic masterpiece of the…
This text tells of a discovery, which took place a few years ago on the island of Stromboli: a case of vintage records, which belonged to a family of emigrants. The Tesoriero family had emigrated in the early twentieth century to the United States and Australia. One day, in ’48, Giuseppe Tesoriero sent a case of records as a…
Tango is a cultural manifestation that was generated and developed in the popular sphere and as such it was developing its own tools.
The flute is a foundational instrument and we find it as an almost indispensable instrument in the origins, at the end of the 19th century during the period called the “old guard”.
Марина Вологдина 160 лет тому назад, в 1861 году, Высочайшим указом Александра II была учреждена Санкт-Петербургская консерватория, официальное открытие которой состоялось годом позже. Первым её профессором по классу флейты стал известный итальянский музыкант Чезаре Чиарди, дав начало профессиональному обучению игре на флейте в России. Он родился 28 июня 1818 года в итальянском городе Прато в герцогстве Тосканском, недалеко от…
por Manuel Carranza Cueto Cuando se habla del Perú en cualquier parte del mundo por lo general se lo asocia a una de las Siete Maravillas del Mundo Moderno y también de unos de los más importantes vestigios considerados Patrimonio de la Humanidad desde 1983: Machu Picchu (Cuzco). Los Incas – forjadores del Imperio del Tahuantinsuyo en Sudamérica –…
di Onorio Zaralli Parleremo ora della dimensione emotiva “in concerto”. E’ una dimensione importantissima, al pari della tecnica strumentale e della conoscenza musicale del testo. Dirò di più: l’influenza che essa esercita sulla resa esecutiva è ancor più determinante proprio perché sfugge maggiormente al nostro controllo. Quante volte, con una buona forma fisica, una tecnica sicura, una buona conoscenza…
The pursuit of beautiful soundin our instrument passes, in addition to the taste of the performer and the fashions dictated by the great names of the moment, for the different ways of posing the moving parts that, between the instrument and the instrumentalist, play a decisive role in defining the timbre, i.e. the quality of the sounds produced. Moving…
by Yulia Berry It was not easy to find time in the busy schedule of Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, soloist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but finally we met for a conversation and I was able to ask some questions that have been burning me. Yulia: Dear Stefán, thank you for finding time for this interview to answer some questions…
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