b. 1963 German violinist After studying in Germany and Switzerland, Mutter performed at the Lucerne Festival in 1976. She appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1977, the same year as her English debut with the English Chamber Orchestra under Barenboim at the Brighton Festival. She has recorded all the Beethoven sonatas. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | David ...
musical career to conducting. He took British citizenship, and was raised to the peerage and appointed to the Order of Merit. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Anne-Sophie Mutter | Contemporary | Classical ...
Composed between 1917 and 1922 and first performed in Berlin on 14 December 1925, this work features Berg’s own libretto, based on the Georg Büchner play Woyzeck. Written a century earlier, the play recounts the true story of a soldier, barber and drifter who is executed for murder. Büchner may have read about Johann Christian Woyzeck as ...
February ‘Penny Lane’/‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ The first record to emerge from the studio-bound Beatles was another pair of contrasting McCartney and Lennon songs, a recurring feature of recent singles but, with time to perfect and polish, the songs had moved up another level. Both made a nostalgic return to Liverpool for their inspiration but while Paul McCartney strode ...
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