51. Jongen. Franck. Widor. Saint-Saëns. Ravel. Escaich. Langlais
First turning to the concerto genre as late in his artistic career as 1929-1931, Ravel was drawn by the search for various possible resolutions within one and the same genre.
52. Ravel. Mahler
First turning to the concerto genre as late in his artistic career as 1929-1931, Ravel was drawn by the search for various possible resolutions within one and the same genre.
53. Kastalsky
Fraternal Remembrance (Russian Requiem) for mixed chorus a cappella Soloists: Nadezhda Khadzheva (mezzo-soprano), Fyodor Uvarov (bass), Mikhail Peskov (bells) Mariinsky Theatre Chorus Principal Chorus Master and Conductor: Andrei Petrenko Being drawn to intensely Russian sources and the search for an original Russian musical path are typical of the music of Alexander Kastalsky.
54. Kapp. Bach. Fessy. Rachmaninoff. Elgar. Vierne. Guilmant.
Pärt. Saint‑Saëns
The “musical path” from the variations to the theme, a common thing in contemporary music, symbolises enlightenment and it reflects the path leading from searching and doubt to truth.
The contrasts between people’s moods, embodied in natural rotations, were closer to Mahler – rotations such as the changing seasons, day and night, light and darkness… The twilight of consciousness, fatalistic doom and the hero’s romantic searches are contrasted with a classical clarity in the abridged pages of the symphonic cycles.
But Radu Poklitaru’s ballet is less of a staged work and rather more of an image of associations… “The choreographic etudes – now harmonious in terms of movement, now broken, like fragments of emotions – remind us of some alchemic event during which the participants find their own philosophy, their own world, and, not stopping at that, they continue their search.
57. Kruglik. Slonimsky. Tishchenko
The first movement – Faust – embodies Faustian reflection, an uneasy search for the meaning of life and that unattainable beautiful instant that can be bought only at the cost of life itself.
58. Stravinsky
After a lengthy search, an unusual solution for the instrumental role was found: the “super-personal” meaning of what is depicted calls out to augment the ensemble of four grand pianos and the large percussion section.
59. December's Artist of the Month Willard White La Damnation de Faust
Here there is disappointment in love, an attempt to seek solace through travel, and the tortuous search for one´s inner self.
60. October's Artist of the Month Vladimir Feltsman Piano recital Bach. Beethoven. Musorgsky
” Classically oriented critics accused Beethoven “of constantly searching for fantastical modulations, of systematic repugnance to natural transitions, of a terrible tangled heap of difficulties so that like it or not, one loses one’s patience…” (from Die Allgemeine Musikzeitung , which was published in Leipzig).