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MAJOR performing artists of the past heard our the radio programs.R A CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08631243889162548913noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5159023237892265925.post-80045875286282409732016-10-02T08:39:00.001-05:002016-10-02T08:39:05.522-05:00Sir Neville Marriner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(15 April 1924—2 October 2016) Marriner was born in Lincoln, England, and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Martin String Quartet and London Symphony Orchestra, playing with the last two for 13 years. He later formed the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart before going to Hancock, Maine, in the United States to study conducting with Pierre Monteux at his school there. In 1958, he founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra and recorded copiously with them.
Marriner was the first music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, from 1969 to 1978. From 1979 to 1986, he was music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. He was principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989. Marriner recorded for various labels, including Argo, L'Oiseau Lyre, Philips and EMI Classics. His recorded repertoire ranges from the baroque era to 20th century British music, as well as opera. Among his recordings are two CDs of British music for Philips Classics with Julian Lloyd Webber, including acclaimed performances of Benjamin Britten's Cello Symphony and Sir William Walton's Cello Concerto. Marriner also supervised the Mozart selections for the soundtrack of the 1984 film Amadeus. He was chairman of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra until 1992, when he was succeeded by Malcolm Latchem. Marriner held the title of Life President. He was the father of the clarinettist Andrew Marriner, principal clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra.<br />
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VIDEO: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields was founded by the now legendary conductor Sir Neville Marriner in 1958. Watch to find out a little more about Sir Neville and his relationship with the Academy, whilst enjoying the Academy's performance of the opening to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner in April 2014.
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Franz Bauer Theussl [toy' sul] studied piano at the Music Academy of Vienna and after graduating was the last student of Clemens Krauss .
He debuted on March 4, 1957, the Vienna Volksoper with Lehár's Land of Smiles and was in his first season musical director of Die Fledermaus , Martha (Bauer Theussl's first premiere on 28 September 1957), Wiener Blut , Rigoletto , The Gypsy Baron , A waltz dream and the beggar student . During the next three decades, he conducted 26 premieres at the Volksoper. Overall, he has conducted more than 3,000 ideas there.
His career has taken him as city Kapellmeister at the City Theatre in Baden (1950), as head of opera to the Landestheater in Salzburg (1953-1957), at the Volksoper in Vienna , and from 1960 to 1964 as music director at the Amsterdam Opera.
As co-founder of the Mörbisch Lake Festival he was the first conductor. Even with the Bregenz Festival he directed numerous performances with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra .
As part of a concert to celebrate the 100th birthday of Franz Lehár with the Bruckner Orchestra in Bad Ischl in April 1970, he discovered his affection for the Salzkammergut and settled in Unterach down.
A wider audience, he was by the regular piano accompaniment Heinz Conrads known '.
Bauer Theussl was married to a ballet dancer Herta Lonsky and is the father of actress Johanna Lonsky (* 1958). He died of Lehár's birthday on 30 April 2010 in Salzburg.<br />
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<b><i>Paula Robison </i></b>(born June 8, 1941) is a flutist and music teacher.
Robison was recognized early as one of the great solo flutists of her generation, at a time when few if any had careers outside an orchestra. Her broad education, however, developed in the highly cultivated and morally conscious family environment she grew up in and in her training with outstanding teachers, has given her a passion for theater, dance, and all the arts, as well as a humanistic perspective on music and the instrument she plays. Ms. Robison puts this to work in her teaching and in her collaborative work with contemporary music groups like Argento New Music and in museum contexts.
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Nelson Goerner ( 1969 , San Pedro , Province of Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine pianist classical repertoire.
Garrubba student Jorge and Carmen Scalcione (disciples of the legendary Vicente Scaramuzza ), gave his first recital at age 11. It debuted at the Teatro Colón when he won the competition Franz Liszt . He won the Geneva in 1990, where he worked with Maria Tipo , which enabled him to many European debuts as Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier, Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Lucerne, London and Milan. He received the Konex Diploma of Merit in 1999 and Platinum in 2009.
He is married to pianist Georgian Rusudan Alavidze and lives in Switzerland.<br />
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R A CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08631243889162548913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5159023237892265925.post-55216105778940032862015-04-06T16:18:00.000-05:002015-04-06T16:18:40.628-05:00Cordelia Williams<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cordelia Williams has been acclaimed as a pianist of “great power and delicate sensitivity”, drawing in audiences with her rich sound, natural eloquence and “spell-binding simplicity”. She has performed all over the world, including concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra, in Mexico City, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and recitals at Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Beijing Concert Hall. In December 2014 she will make her debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, playing Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto at Barbican Hall, London and Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
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<i> VIDEO: Cordelia Williams: Ravel "Ondine" from Gaspard de la Nuit .. Recorded at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, on 19 March 2013</i><br />
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Noriko Ogawa (小川典子 Ogawa Noriko?) (born 1962) is a Japanese classical pianist.
Born in Kawasaki, Ogawa studied at the Tokyo College of Music (1977–80) and the Juilliard School in New York (1981–5), and later with Benjamin Kaplan. After coming second in a Japanese music competition in 1984, she gained third prize in the 1987 Leeds International Piano Competition, which launched her international performing career. Her New York début was in 1982 and her London début in 1988.
Since 1997 Ogawa has been an exclusive recording artist for BIS Records. She has collaborated in a piano duo with British pianist Kathryn Stott since 2001, and the two women have recorded works by Delius for BIS Records. In 2003, they gave the first performance of Graham Fitkin's Circuit. She also has a longstanding collaboration with clarinetist Michael Collins. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriko_Ogawa_%28pianist%29">WIKIPEDIA</a><br />
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Since his Mozart K.503 concerto debut in Australia aged twelve, pianist James Brawn has forged his own musical path of discovery, studying with great pianists who can trace their pedagogical lineage back to Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Clara Schumann.
James was born in England but has lived around the world in New Zealand, Australia and the USA. Starting piano lessons at the age of seven, he performed on New Zealand television and won his first awards in Auckland in 1979. His family moved to Melbourne the following year where his musical studies blossomed through the 1980s with Margaret Schofield (a pupil of Solomon), Ronald Farren-Price (a pupil of Arrau) and Rita Reichman (a pupil of Serkin and Horszowski). He also won major prizes at eisteddfods and scholarships, including the Hephzibah Menuhin Award presented by Yehudi Menuhin. While still at school, James performed concerti by Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Rachmaninov. He also reached the concerto final of the ABC Young Performers Awards in 1987, leading to concerts with the Adelaide and Melbourne Symphony orchestras under conductors Omri Hadari and Patrick Thomas.R A CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08631243889162548913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5159023237892265925.post-75533204875128031792014-11-19T04:50:00.002-06:002015-05-20T15:26:57.442-05:00Llŷr Williams (born Pentrebychan, Wrexham, Wales 1976) is a Welsh pianist.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Williams was educated at Ysgol Hooson in Rhosllannerchrugog and Ysgol Morgan Llwyd in Wrexham, and then read music at The Queen's College, Oxford from 1995-1998, finishing with a First-Class degree and being awarded The Gibbs Prize in Music for outstanding performance in his final examinations. He attended the Royal Academy of Music as a postgraduate scholar and studied with Michael Dussek, Iain Ledingham, Hamish Milne, Julius Drake, and Irina Zaritskaya. He won every available prize at the Academy and received its highest academic award, the Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music (DipRAM) (2000). Upon graduating he was elected to a Shinn[disambiguation needed] Fellowship (2000-02), during the tenure of which he studied conducting and coaching singing.<br />
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Hope was born in Durban, South Africa, and moved as a child with his family to London, where he received tuition by Yehudi Menuhin. Hope is the son of South African poet and novelist, Christopher Hope, FRSL. His violin is the 1737Guarneri "ex-Lipinski".
In 2011 he was appointed Visiting Professor in Violin by the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied under Zakhar Bron and gained a diploma (DipRAM) and a fellowship (FRAM).
Hope presented the documentary film The Secrets of the Violin which explored the history of violin making from Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri to modern makers like Samuel Zygmuntowicz.</div>
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‘It is the light airiness of Natalie Clein’s approach that works well here,’ writes Helen Wallace in her review of this recording in the October issue of BBC Music Magazine.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=Natalie%20Clein&linkCode=as2&tag=ncdn&linkId=P6EMA3QZKH54LXMZ"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B00M2D7JJ8&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=ncdn" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=ncdn&l=as2&o=1" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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Natalie Clein (born 25 March 1977, Poole, Dorset) is a British cellist. Her mother is a professional violinist. Her sister is the actress Louisa Clein.
Clein started playing the cello at the age of six, and studied with Anna Shuttleworth and Alexander Baillie at the Royal College of Music where she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship. She has also studied with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna.
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Born in Tehran, Esfahani grew up in the United States. While at Stanford University, Esfahani studied musicology and came most seriously under the influence of the American scholar George Houle. Later, he continued his harpsichord studies with the Australian harpsichordist Peter Watchorn in Boston and with the Italian organist Lorenzo Ghielmi in Milan, He and completed his studies with the Czech harpsichordist Zuzana Růžičková. Unlike the mainstream of harpsichordists concertising today he has largely diverged from the school of Gustav Leonhardt, though he does cite him as an important spiritual influence. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahan_Esfahani">WIKIPEDIA</a> <br />
Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani contrasts and connects the keyboard works of William Byrd, Bach and Ligeti in this concert recital recorded at London’s Wigmore Hall,’ begins Kate Bolton in her review of this recording in the August issue of BBC Music Magazine.
She goes on to say: ‘He brings intelligence and grace to the Ricecars and a canon from Bach’s Music Offering, their contrapuntal lines spun with limpid clarity,’ awarding the disc five stars for both the performance and recording quality.
JS Bach composed his Musical Offering as a tribute to Frederick the Great after paying him a visit in 1747. While there, the monarch challenged Bach to improvise three- and six-part fugues at the keyboard, a challenge he met with improvised three-part fugues and a six-part one on a theme the king had previously composed. Several weeks later Bach completed his Musical Offering, a set of pieces on this ‘Royal Theme’.<br />
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RCA Red Seal celebrates the legendary pianist Byron Janis’ 85th Birthday with the release of The Complete RCA Collection. The box set brings together his entire discography on RCA for the first time with no fewer than seven “first on CD” releases. Newly remastered from original sources, the recordings are presented in facsimile sleeves and labels corresponding to the original LP releases. Many recordings make their first appearance on CD, including a previously unpublished version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. An enclosed booklet offers an essay by Richard Dyer based upon his interviews with Janis, numerous unpublished vintage photographs and full discographical information.
Included in this box set as a bonus DVD is a critically acclaimed documentary The Byron Janis Story, produced by the Emmy award-winning filmmaker Peter Rosen. In the film, Janis recounts the story of his ground breaking concerts, which opened the Cultural Exchange with the Soviet Union in 1960 during the Cold War’s hayday. He also speaks of his discovery of multiple important Chopin manuscripts, his recent evolution as a composer, and his courage facing serious physical challenges. A bonus CD with early recordings completes the documentation of an extraordinary career.
Born on March 24th 1928, Janis’ prodigious keyboard gifts led him to study in New York with Josef and Rosina Lhevinne and Adele Marcus. At sixteen, he became Vladimir Horowitz’s first pupil. By his 20th birthday, Janis had a resoundingly successful South American tour, a triumphant Carnegie Hall recital debut, and at 19 became the youngest artist ever signed by RCA Victor. The body of recorded work that Janis set down for the label between 1947 and 1959 further established Janis’ stature and provided a foundation to a long extraordinary and unique multi-faceted career. At the age of 11 a serious injury to his little finger which left it permanently numb was kept a secret. His doctors were confounded that he was able to continue performing. Then in 1973 he developed psoriatic arthritis in both hands and wrists, once more, utterly confounding his doctors by still performing and maintaining his world class career, again keeping his condition secret. In 1985, that secret became public knowledge when it was revealed by Nancy Reagan after his performance, at a White House luncheon. She also announced that Janis would become a major spokesman for the Arthritis Foundation.
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fans and piano mavens an unprecedented opportunity to reconnect and explore this inspiring musician’s virtuosic prime, from his early and assured Beethoven sonatas and incisively idiomatic Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue to the febrile intensity and lyrical repose of his timeless Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Liszt and Strauss orchestral collaborations and the effortless account of the difficult Schulz-Evler/Strauss Blue Danube that the pianist set down in one unedited take.<br />
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Alfred J. Gallodoro, (June 20, 1913 – October 4, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, who performed from the 1920s up until his death. He is notable for having played lead alto sax with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and bass clarinet for 12 years with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. Bandleader Jimmy Dorsey praised him as "the best sax player who ever lived." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gallodoro">Wikipedia</a><br />
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DAVID RUBINSTEIN's recordings have been critically acclaimed and appear regularly on the
playlists of major broadcasting services including Classical24, K-Mozart (Los Angeles)
and LIVE365's MUSIClassical Concert. He currently performs a wide range of repertoire from Bach and Scarlatti to the
present and has recorded extensively on the Musicus label.
He has participated in recording sessions for all the major film studios, including
several on-screen performances, and has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe with
appearances including an all-French program at the Norton Simon Museum, Zipper Hall in
Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art, London's Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center, the Whittier
College Bach Festival, the San Diego Convention Center, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago,
and numerous international radio broadcasts. His teachers included George Kochevitsky and
Claudio Arrau. Orchestral appearances have included the Cal State L.A. Baroque Ensemble,
Berkshire Symphony,Westlake Festival Orchestra, Hudson Symphony, Hilversum Radio Orchestra,
and the South Bend Symphony.
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Prokofiev-Visions-Fugitives-Sonatinas-Rubinstein/dp/B006NSWM2M/ref=sr_1_56?ie=UTF8&qid=1364344935&sr=8-56&keywords=david+rubinstein">David Rubinstein plays Prokofiev Visions Fugitives and Two Sonatinas, Op.54</a><br />
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Born into a musical family in Shenyang, China, Lang Lang began his piano studies at the age of three, giving his first public recital when he was only five. He entered the Central Music Conservatory of China at age nine. In 1997, accompanied by his father, fifteen-year-old Lang Lang came to the U.S. to study with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. As his talent blossomed and his repertoire expanded, he began to enter competitions. Among the many titles added to his resume were: first prize in the Fifth Xing Hai Cup Piano Competition in Beijing, first prize and "outstanding artistic performance" in the Fourth International Young Pianists Competition in Germany, and first prize at the Second Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians' Competition held in 1995 in Japan. In April 2001, the eighteen-year-old Lang Lang made his critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut. He has also given concerts with the New York Philharmonic; the Chicago Symphony; the NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg; the St. Petersburg Philharmonic; and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In Beijing, he performed before an audience of 8,000 at the Great Hall of the People. Lang Lang’s reputation spread so quickly that a biography in Chinese appeared in bookstores in China prior to his 17th birthday. He has been featured live on "Good Morning America" and"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," and was the subject of articles in The Wall Street Journal and in Teen People's issue highlighting "Top Twenty Teens Who Will Change the World." He also had the distinction of being the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic.<br />
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The celebrated young American cellist walks us through her recording of this "devastating" concerto written just after the end of World War I. She collaborated with conductor Daniel Barenboim, whose late wife, Jacqueline du Pre, was the standard-bearer for this work. <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/12/04/166492578/alisa-weilerstein-plays-elgar-exploring-music-with-an-intense-past">Alisa Weilerstein Plays Elgar on NPR</a>
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Weilerstein started playing the cello at age four. She made her debut at age 13 with the Cleveland Orchestra playing Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme. As a soloist she has performed with a number of other major orchestras on four continents. She also is active in chamber music and performs with her parents, violinist Donald Weilerstein, and pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, as the Weilerstein Trio. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisa_Weilerstein">More from Wikipedia</a><P>
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Elliott Carter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer who fused European and American modernist traditions in seminal but formidable works, and who lived to hear ovations for music that was once thought to be anything but listener-friendly, died Nov. 5 at his home in New York City. He was 103.
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Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as solo instrumental and vocal works. He was extremely productive in his later years, publishing more than 40 works between the ages of 90 and 100, and over 14 more after he turned 100 in 2008. His last work, 12 Short Epigrams for piano, was completed on August 13, 2012. <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Carter">More Wikipedia</a>
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Sir Georg Solti, KBE, /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈʃɒlti/ (<b>21 October 1912</b> – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor and pianist, best known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Hungary, he studied in Budapest with Béla Bartók, Leo Weiner and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis, and because he was a Jew he fled the increasingly restrictive anti-semitic laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Solti">More Wikipedia</a><br />
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Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano. Born and raised in the Deep South, she rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera. One critic characterized Price's voice as "vibrant", "soaring" and "a Price beyond pearls", as well as "genuinely buttery, carefully produced but firmly under control", with phrases that "took on a seductive sinuousness." Time magazine called her voice "Rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C.<br />
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Fiedler was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Emanuel and Johanna Fiedler. His father was a Polish-born violinist who played in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his mother was a pianist and musician. He grew up in Boston, and attended Boston Latin School until his father retired (in the early 1900s), and they moved to Vienna, Austria, in 1910. The family soon moved again, to Berlin, where from 1911 to 1915 young Fiedler studied violin at the Royal Academy of Music (Hochschule für Musik Berlin) under Willy Hess. Fiedler returned to Boston at the beginning of World War I. In 1915 he joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Karl Muck as a violinist. He also worked as a pianist, organist, and percussionist. Fiedler was appointed the eighteenth conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra in 1930. While the position of conductor of the Boston Pops both prior to and after Fiedler tended to be a phase of a conductor's career, Fiedler made it his life's work, having the position for a half-century.<br />
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Maria Callas (Greek: Μαρία Κάλλας) (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice and great dramatic gifts. An extremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini; further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her remarkable musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina.<br />
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Sir Georg Solti, KBE, ( /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈʃɒlti/; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his recordings he is probably best known for leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969-91. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the second half of the 20th century.<br />
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In celebration of his piano hero s bicentenary, Lang Lang has selected some of the most famous, virtuosic and poetic solo pieces, concluding with a stunning new recording of the Piano Concerto No. 1 - accompanied by the Vienna Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev. Lang Lang has had a special relationship with the composer following his very first encounter with his music at age two when he watched a Tom and Jerry cartoon featuring Liszt s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2R A CAMPBELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08631243889162548913noreply@blogger.com