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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…
The poet must begin with a poetic vision and then use the influential figures of speech, various forms of rhythm, cadence, alliteration, repetition, assonance, and consonance to obtain an adequate embodiment of this vision in terse form, which displays qualities very similar to music. The connection between music and poetry is solid and undeniable.
What value can we find today in Moyse’s legacy as a player and teacher for today’s flutists and wind players? As it turns out, there is plenty for us today in his legacy as a player, in the myriad accounts of his teaching, and in the many books he published.
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…
Flamenco art, without losing sight of its original roots, does not miss the opportunity to visit other musical territories from which it learns new forms, scales and harmonies that end up being incorporated into its language, in a desire for constant updating.
Наталья Марашова В моей концертной практике имеется обширный опыт камерных составов с участием мандолины. В основном это широко распространенные классические составы, например мандолина и фортепиано, мандолина и струнные или, один из самых часто встречающихся (если применительно к мандолине вообще можно употребить слово «часто»), мандолина и гитара, прототипом которых стали составы с солирующим инструментом и сопровождением. Однако, сама по себе…
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