Flavio Varani Bio As a teenager, Mr. Varani studied with the legendary magda tagliaferro in Paris Music,where he won the Harold Bauer Award for the most distinguished pianist. http://w7.com/a_and_e/kwcms/varani/f_varani.htm
Extractions: Brazilian born pianist Flavio Varani began performing as a soloist at the age of seven. When he was 10 he began touring with the Brazilian National Symphony, a tradition that continues up to the present day. He is a renownded recitalist, chamber musician and guest artist with leading orchestras in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. As a teenager, Mr. Varani studied with the legendary Magda Tagliaferro in Paris. He came to the United States to continue his musical education with Rosina Lhevinne at Juilliard and with Artur Balsam and Dora Zaslavsky at The Manhattan School of Music, where he won the "Harold Bauer Award" for the most distinguished pianist. A recipient of many honors, Flavio Varani was First Prize winner at the "Chopin International Competition" in Mallorca; "Musician of the Year" awarded by the Michigan Foundatin for the Arts; and "Best Soloist of the Year," by the Brazilian Art Critic's Association. In his active performance career, Flavio Varani appears regularly at major music centers throughout the world, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Moscow Conservatory Hall and Munich Gasteig. He has been heard at numerous festivals, such as Newport Music Festival, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Meadow Brook Festival, Cotignac (France) Festival and International Academy for Advanced Studies in Chamber Music (Germany) where he is the artistic director. Presently Flavio Varani is Artist in Residence at Oakland University, in Rochester, Michigan. He is a recording artist with Maison Dante and Orion Master Recordings.
Yesterday's Concert Pianists-Alphabetical 184273, highest ranking woman in 1800s; famous pianist/major composer; published,with Petersburg, July 24, 1831)A, B, G magda tagliaferro (b. Brazil, Jan. http://www.pianowomen.com/yesterday2.html
Extractions: Alphabetical Listing Search Last Name [A] [B-C] [D-F] [G-J] ... [T-Z] The following list includes women pianists who concertized on a national or international level during their lifetime, and spans birthdates from the 1750's to the 1900's (deceased). Source codes after each name indicate biographical entries in the following recent references:
Raoul Sosa - Analekta A Tokyo critic has described him as the pianist with the golden Raoul Sosa studiedwith Stanislav Neuhaus, magda tagliaferro and Sergiu Celibidache and has http://www.analekta.com/site/bio.e/sosa_ra.html
Extractions: FL 2 3080-1 The critics have hailed Canadian pianist, conductor and composer Raoul Sosa as an exceptionally genius artist and one of the most important musicians of the day. Despite a serious injury to his right hand several years ago, he has fulfilled the promise of a brilliant performing career by developing a remarkable virtuosity in the repertoire for the left hand.
Piano Practice Page The author, himself a noted pianist, studied with as Gaby Casadesus, JeanneMarieDarre, Monique Haas, Eric Heidsieck, and magda tagliaferro. BOOK JACKET. http://publish.uwo.ca/~elosseva/PianoPractice.htm
Extractions: "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten Ah, the joy of practicing... Welcome to my piano practice page. Give it a glance and I hope you'll find something of interest. Send me an email if you'd like to chat. I am always looking for people to play chamber music with. Contents of this page: Piano Practice Online Resources: (few but useful) http://www.mwsc.edu/~bhugh/practicetips/index.html provides collection of practice tips and advice by Prof. Brent Hugh http://www.siue.edu/MUSIC/html/ruths.html is an article by a great pianist Ruth Slenczynska on memory work (click here if the link doesn't work) http://www.alexandertechnique.com includes a list of online resources for Alexander technique (though I am highly skeptical of it myself) http://www.engr.unl.edu/ee/eeshop/music.html
Reissue CDs, OCT. 01, Pt. 1 - AUDIOPHILE AUDITION of Max Trapp (18871971) with the stellar pianist Gieseking (1895 Grandes pianistasBrasileiros - magda tagliaferro CHABRIER Scherzo-Valse; Idylle/SAINT-SAENS http://www.audaud.com/audaud/OCT01/REISSUES/recds1OCT01.html
Extractions: BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67; Symphony No. 7 in A Major , Op. 92 Wilhelm Furtwaengler conducts Berlin Philharmonic Classica D'Oro CDO 1002 69:59 (Distrib. Allegro): As part of 'The Great Conductors' series of Classica D'Oro, this is an ambitious choice, two of the 1943 Beethoven inscriptions by Wilhelm Furtwaengler (1886-1954), made in the politically darkest and most musically proficient period of his career. These recordings, however, have already had a life of their own, either in LP form via DG, and in CD form through Music and Arts Programs (CD-4049, Distrib. Koch), where the packaging is maximal, the notes by John Ardoin comprehensive, and the remastering-particularly in the 5th Symphony-much more precise. The major faux pas in this edition is the poor side splice from the Fifth's Scherzo and its long, tympanic crescendo to the C Major finale: there is something like a 6-7 second delay in the arrival of the three explosive chords to the onset of the Allegro. Other than this glitch, the reprocessing is good, the reverb a bit hollow, the pitch distortion (likely taken from an already good dub). -Gary Lemco TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35/WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 22/SARASATE: Zigueunerweisen, Op. 20
Proust Sightings Evocation Legendary Encores Played by Roland Pntinen , in which the pianist hassought 1995 Fanfare, in a review of the recordings of magda tagliaferro, she http://www.caffeproust.com/PST/ps5.html
Extractions: O ne of those odd facts of life is that once you have become aware of something, the more frequently you find it in the world around you. Certainly, long before I became a Proust fanatic I would encounter references to Proust here and there, but now I find them with amazing frequency, or friends find them, sometimes in the most unexpected places, and pass them along. So I 've decided to run a regular feature for each issue, and invite all of you to send your Proust sightings for inclusion. I've had a stack piling up for many months, and it's been interesting to see where the references are coming from. Vanity Fair, as discussed in the last issue, has mentioned Proust every single month since July of 1993, in the context of their celebrity interviews based on the Proust Questionnaire; it no doubt holds the record for mentioning him more often than any of the major circulation publications, at least in the last few years. Running a close second, I believe, is The New Yorker, in which we've found the following references. The next month, in the November 27 issue, In "Cather and the Academy" by Joan Acocella, she writes "...like other marriages of realism and Symbolism in the early twentieth century (Proust's, for example) it worked beautifully."
Peabody Conservatory Faculty: Voice & Opera Studied with Pierre Bernac, magda tagliaferro, Dora Zaslavsky, Arthur Balsam. Coach,pianist, chorus master for opera companies such as Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/cons/consfac/cons-voice-fac.html
Extractions: Marianna Busching Voice . B.A., Valparaiso University; M.M., Converse College. Solo performances with the Baltimore Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Washington Oratorio Society, Washington Cathedral Choral Society, Atlanta Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Bach Society, among others. National winner, National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artists Awards, Oratorio Division, 1973. Faculty, Catholic University. Recorded on Columbia Masterworks, Newport Classics, Centaur Records. John Shirley-Quirk Voice . C.B.E., B.Sc., D. Mus. (h.c.) Liverpool University; D.Univ., Branel University, Hon R.A.M. Leading British bass-baritone known for masterful performances in orchestral and recital appearances. Performances with major orchestras worldwide, especially in Europe and the U.S. Opera performances at Covent Garden, London; La Scala, Milan; The Metropolitan Opera, New York. Appearances in many major television productions. Premiered roles in all of Benjamin Britten's last five operas, in Tippett's The Ice-Break, and others. Over 100 recordings on major international labels, many of which have received awards.
SERGIO FIORENTINO absences of many decades such artist as Maria Tipo, magda tagliaferro, DubravkaTomsic artist at the Festival revered him; one seasoned pianist even wanted to http://people.freenet.de/elumpe/Sergio.htm
Extractions: Sergio Fiorentino Memorial Site II S E R G I O F I O R E N T I N O pianist musician Reactions to his concerts appearances Tuesday night in The Breakers Fiorentino opened the Newport Festival by making his first American appearance in 43 years. A courtly gentleman with an aureole of white hair, Fiorentino looks like a pianist in an old movie - or like photographs of the German pianist Wilhelm Kempff. Fiorentino, like Horowitz or Dubravka Tomsic, is undemonstrative at the keyboard; he doesn't have time for theater, because there is so much color and drama in the actual playing. The first half of the recital was "serious", the second devoted to entertainment - but these are false distinctions. Fiorentino's performance of the Schumann "Fantasy" was architecturally sound, but it was also full of darting, unexspected departures and a sense of play. And like the great pianists of the past, Fiorentino doesn't play transcriptions of waltzes to show off his virtuosity but to celebrate the waltz in all its intricate, teasing glory. The waltzes were the Liszt version of the Kermesse from Gounod's "Faust", Fiorentino's transcriptions of a Tchaikovsky waltz and a sequence of waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier", Tausig's transcription of Strauss' "Man lebt nur einmal!" and the masterpiece fo the genre, Godowsky's "Symphonic Metamor- phoses on Themes from Die Fledermaus". Fiorentino neatly discriminated among the various national styles; and his iridescent scales, glissandi, arpeggios, chords, double notes, and octaves, his opalescent shifting harmonies, and his superbly secure and supple rhythmic sense wre not virtuoso tricks but ornaments devised to dramatize the curve of each dance in delirious movement.
Featurep December 27, 1998 transcriptions by Liszt, Idel Birit has become the first pianist ever to the eminentFrench conductor Jean Fournet who had accompanied magda tagliaferro in her http://www.turkishdailynews.com/past_probe/12_27_98/featurep.htm
James Tocco The pianist's recent seasons included his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra debut, performing anda French government grant to study with magda tagliaferro in Paris http://www.hexagone.net/music/cvprofs/james tocco.htm
Extractions: of music Pianiste Mr. Tocco's voluminous discography reflects his varied tastes and astonishing versatility: the world-premiere recording of Bernstein's complete solo piano music, an all-Copland disc including the first recording of the solo piano version of the Suite from Rodeo; the complete Chopin Préludes, the complete piano music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes; Erwin Schulhof's Cinq Etudes de Jazz; Bach-Liszt Organ Transcriptions; and the four piano sonatas of Edward MacDowell. Just issued to unanimous acclaim is Mr. Tocco's recording of Corigliano's Etude-Fantasy on Sony Classical. In addition to his rigorous international performing itinerary, Mr. Tocco is Eminent Scholar/Artist-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and Professor of Piano at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany. Mr. Tocco is also the Artistic Director of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. James Tocco will teach at the following academy:
Classical Piano Faculty At MSM Master classes Leon Fleisher; magda Tagliaforro. As pianist and founding member ofthe famed Brandenburg; Carlo Zecchi; Gieseking; Long; tagliaferro; Zaslavsky http://www.msmnyc.edu/cpiano_fac.htm
Bio Sergio Fiorentino, Dame Moura Lympany, Fou Tsong, magda tagliaferro, Halina Czerny Malkovichis a pianist of note himself, having studied with Dorothy Crost http://www.newportmusic.org/bio.htm
Extractions: Dr. Mark P. Malkovich, III General Director v 2000 Biography Dr. Mark P. Malkovich, III is acknowledged as an expert in the field of chamber music. As General Director of the Newport Music Festival for the past twenty-six seasons, he has brought the Festival to national and international prominence. His avid awareness of the international music scene and his idea of a music-making community of artists creates a festival that really feels like a festival. The list of international artists who made their American debuts in Newport under his patronage is legendarypianists Bella Davidovich, Andrei Gavrilov, Jean-Philippe Collard, François-René Duchable, Dimitris Sgouros, Maria-João Pires, Valery Afanassiev, Jean-Louis Steuerman, Michel Dalberto, Igor Zhukov, Mikhail Pletnev, Ekaterina Novitskaya, Andrea Lucchesini, Pietro De Maria, Peter Rösel, Pascal Devoyon, Hugh Tinney, Alain Jacquon, Mûza Rubackyté, Constantin Lifschitz and Nikolai Lugansky; violinists Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Peter Oundjian, Raphael Oleg, Augustin Dumay, Ilya Kaler, and Stephan Milenkovic; violist Gerard Caussé; cellist Alexander Rudin; flutist Patrick Gallois; clarinettist Emma Johnson; bassoonist Kim Walker; baritone Detlef Roth; contrabassist Alberto Bocini and more than fifty other stellar artists and groups. Finnish baritone Jorma Hynninen was heard in Newport on his very first American tour.
The Newport Music Festival Online Tomsic, Sergio Fiorentino, Dame Moura Lympany, Fou Ts'ong, magda tagliaferro, HalinaCzerny Malkovich is a pianist of note himself, having studied with Dorothy http://www.newportmusic.org/mpmbio.htm
Extractions: 1997 Biography Dr. Mark P. Malkovich, III is acknowledged as an expert in the field of chamber music. As General Director of the Newport Music Festival for the past twenty-three seasons, he has brought the Festival to national and international prominence. His avid awareness of the international music scene and his idea of a music-making community of artists creates a festival that really feels like a festival. Malkovich's personal record collection of more than 15,000 discs contains many rarities, especially of pianists, gathered from his travels around the world. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Celebrities in International Music, and Leading Personalities of the World. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Salve Regina University in 1993 and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Rhode Island in 1994.
Críticas Translate this page In Eudóxia de Barros, pianist at last Her self-assurance stems from her trainingwith the great magda tagliaferro and her subsequent brillantly acclaimed http://www.eudoxiadebarros.com.br/port/cronicas.htm
Extractions: LESPRIT ET LE COEUR Toute la chaleur de lâme brésiliennne était bien nécessaire pour réchauffer lambiance du théâtre Jacques-Coeur, dimanche aprés-midi. Une cinquantaine de spectateurs seulement sétaient deplacés pour entendre la pianiste brésilienne Eudóxia de Barros. Sans doute la mixité du programme, mêlant musique classique européennne et musique brésiliennne, avait-elle découragé les amateurs uniques de chaque genre, qui pourtant ne sont pas si éloignés lun de lautre. Toujours est-il que ce demi-désert aurait pu saper le moral dune artiste a lâme moins bien trempée. Mais Eudóxia de Barros nen avait cure. Elle a joué comme pour une salle comble, avec la même générosité, le même don total. En première partie, avec des oeuvres de Bach, Bartok, Liszt et Moskowsky, elle avait choisi la difficulté, temoignant dune technique éblouissante, dune autorité de maitre, dune virtuosité extraordinaire. Attentive á son art, elle semblait intellectualiser la musique.
Piano, Harpsichord Organ C01-C187 Violin Viola C188-C249 magda tagliaferro was born in Brazil of French parents and Piano Concerto for her .Althoughtagliaferros Schumann be heard only in a pianist like Martha http://www.norpete.com/catalog/instr-cd.htm
Extractions: Return to Top of Page Return to Welcome Page JOSEF HOFMANN : Chopin Recital, Live Performance, 1936, Carnegie Hall; w. Barbirolli Cond. NYPO: Concerto #2 in f (Chopin), Live Performance, 1945. (Italy) Urania 22.229. JOSEF HOFMANN Vol. VII, Great Concerto Performances, incl. Concerto #4 in G (w. Mitropoulos Cond.); Emperor Concerto #5 in E b (w. Lange Cond.) (both Beethoven); plus other concerto-movement excerpts from the Ford and Bell Telephone broadcasts. 2- Marston Transfers by H. Ward Marston. Most Recent Marston Release 35.90, the Set. JOSEF HOFMANN Vol. VI, The Casimir Hall Recital, 7 April, 1938, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, incl. Chopin, Schumann (the latters Kreisleriana Waldstein Sonata #21 in C);
James Tocco Translate this page Der pianist James Tocco hat sich weltweit einen Namen gemacht als Solist, in derfranzösischen Regierung, das ihm das Studium bei magda tagliaferro in Paris http://www.mh-luebeck.de/bios/Bios/Tocco.htm
Extractions: Klavier, Kammermusik Der Pianist James Tocco hat sich weltweit einen Namen gemacht als Solist, in Konzerten mit Orchester, in Kammermusikensembles und als Pädagoge. Sein Repertoire von mehr als 50 Werken mit Orchester umfaßt praktisch das gesamte Standardrepertoire der Klavierkonzerte, daneben auch seltener gespielte Werke wie die Symphonie Concertante von Szymanowski, das Kammerkonzert von Alban Berg sowie The Age of Anxiety von Leonard Bernstein. Er wird für seine Interpretationen der Solo-Klavierliteratur von Beethoven, Chopin und Liszt genauso gerühmt wie für die Aufführungen von Kompositionen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er gehört zu den wenigen Pianisten, die regelmäßig die Klavierwerke von Händel in ihre Programme aufnehmen. James Tocco wurde als Sohn italienischer Eltern in Detroit geboren. Seit frühester Kindheit gehört seine große Liebe der Musik und ganz besonders der Oper. Mit sechs Jahren erhielt er den ersten Klavierunterricht, und bereits mit zwölf Jahren spielte er das erste Mal als Solist mit Orchester (Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 von Beethoven). In der Folgezeit gewann er mehrere Preise, so auch ein Stipendium für Studien am Mozarteum in Salzburg und ein weiteres der französischen Regierung, das ihm das Studium bei Magda Tagliaferro in Paris ermöglichte. Seine musikalische Ausbildung schloß er bei Claudio Arrau in New York ab. Mehrere Schallplatten- und CD-Einspielungen geben Zeugnis von James Toccos musikalischer Vielseitigkeit. Bei ProArte sind erschienen Soloklavierwerke von Leonard Bernstein (die erste Gesamtaufnahme), sowie verschiedene Werke von Aaron Copland, einschließlich der erstmalig aufgenommenen Klavierfassung der Suite aus Rodeo. Für Gasparo hat er die Préludes von Chopin komplett aufgenommen, ebenso das Gesamtklavierwerk von Charles Tomlinson Griffes und die vier Klaviersonaten von Edward MacDowell. Von Gidon Kremers Lockenhaus-Festival hat die Firma ECM seine Live-Aufführung der Cinq Etudes de Jazz von Erwin Schulhof herausgegeben. Kürzlich hat die Deutsche Harmonia Mundi seine Aufnahme der gesamten Transkriptionen von Liszt der großen Bachschen Orgelwerke herausgegeben.
Iclassics.com - Classical Music And More Translate this page Ensemble - Greatest Hits CD - Decca - 2001 The pianist - Music Inspired by CopelandCD - Pearl / Pavilion - 2001 Piano Masters - magda tagliaferro CD - Pearl http://www.iclassics.com/iclassics/artists_result.jsp?lastName=debussy&firstName
Iclassics.com - Classical Music And More Translate this page Organ Favorites CD - Decca - 1990 Pachmann The Mythic pianist 1907-1927 CD CopelandCD - Pearl / Pavilion - 2001 Piano Masters - magda tagliaferro CD - Pearl http://www.iclassics.com/iclassics/artists_result.jsp?lastName=schumann&firstNam
Cqm-Raoul Sosa Translate this page Formé auprès de maîtres tels Stanislav Neuhaus, magda tagliaferro et Sergiu Thecritics have hailed Canadian pianist, conductor and composer Raoul Sosa as http://www.cqm.qc.ca/repert-menu/cqm_membres/rsosa.html
Extractions: Olymp im Überblick Kritiken der Woche Archiv-Inhalt Titelseite/Inhalt Ravel: Das Soloklavierwerk Nur ganz selten in der Geschichte der Schallplatte gibt es diese Aufnahmen, in denen sich eine große Vision ganz wiederfindet, sie erfüllt bis zum Rand. Und manchmal verändert solch eine Vision den Blick auf ein Werk für immer. Der Ravel-Stil, den wir heute als Inbegriff lateinisch-kultivierten Klavierspiels bewundern, ist von einem Mann geschaffen worden, der kein Franzose war, auch wenn er - eher zufällig - 1895 in Lyon geboren wurde. Als Walter Gieseking 1928 in Frankreich erschien, brachte er einen Ravel mit, wie ihn die am Pariser Conservatoire geschulten Pianisten noch nie gehört hatten. "Gieseking spielte Ravel und Debussy wie ein Gott. Ich sollte das nicht sagen, aber es gab keine Franzosen, die ihm darin gleichkamen", schrieb die legendäre Jeanne-Marie Darré. "Es gab eine Zeit, da wollten alle so spielen wie er", bemerkte Magda Tagliaferro. Was war das Neue, Unerhörte? Die älteren französischen Ravel-Aufnahmen sind überraschend grafisch. Sei es ein Robert Casadesus, der sagte, er sehe Ravel in der Tradition eines Couperin, sei es die junge Monique Haas oder die knisternd perkussive Monique de la Bruchollerie wir hören Ravels Klaviermusik in einer gestochen scharfen, manchmal etwas trockenen, clavecinistischen Transparenz, die für uns heute den Reiz des Fremden besitzt. Ravel hat diesen Stil übrigens durchaus autorisiert. Dann kam Gieseking und spielte das Klavierwerk Ravels in der Salle Pleyel an einem Abend. Dieser hünenhafte Mann zauberte die leisesten, immateriellsten Klänge aus dem Klavier, die man jemals gehört hatte. Hundertmal trete Giesking das Pedal in einem Takt, erzählte ein Pianist in leiser Verzweiflung.
