Pizzicato Ost Leo Jivetsky
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Have you ever said something like “I would love to get into classical music, but I don’t know where to start”? Or “I always listen to the same old recordings I know”? Well the Pizzicato Ost is the place for you.
Leo Jivetsky, former Artistic Administrator of the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow, and Program director of the Russian National Orchestra shares his insights on music he is passionate about.
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Stravinsky’s Les Noces
A coffin on a gondola, a ballet dancer with no pants on, an anti-patriarchy show, a royal scandal and a Russian peasant wedding ceremony - this and more, as well as tons of great music in our longest episode so far.
And here is a list of the people mentioned in the episode:
Adam, Adolphe
Beecham, Thomas
Bonynge, Richard
Boulez, Pierre
Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich
Currentzis, Teodor
Debussy, Claude
Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich
de Falla, Manuel
Fokine, Michel (Mikhail Mikhailovich)
Gergiev, Valery Abisalovich
Gershwin, Ira
Goncharova, Natalia Sergeevna
Jurowski, Vladimir Mikhailovich
Karsavina, Tamara Platonovna
Larionov, Mikhail Fyodorovich
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Nezet-Seguin, Yannick
Nijinsky, Vatslav Fomich
Nijinskaya, Bronislava Fominichna
Nikisch, Arthur
Ozawa, Seiji
Pavlova, Anna Pavlovna
Poulenc, Francis
Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeevich
Ravel, Maurice
Reiner, Fritz
Respighi, Ottorino
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreevich
Rubinstein, Ida Lvovna
Satie, Erik
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor Fydorovich
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
Tcherepnin, Nikolai Nikolayevich
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Mily Balakirev’s oriental fantasy ”Islamey”
The world's most difficult solo piano piece and its nationalist antisemitic author are the hot topic of this episode. Is it all that simple though?..
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Season 2 introduction
After 2 years of silence, Pizzicato Ost returns with a second season. This introduction episode presents the concept and the idea of the new season.
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Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition" (pt. 2)
We continue talking about the great piano suite, where babbling French ladies mix with an even old witch, and a gate is wearing a helmet...
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Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition" (pt. 1)
The most orchestral of all piano works, a piece that has inspired so many great musicians, Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition" is our topic for two episodes.
Composed as an homage to the composer's close friend, artist Victor Hartmann, the work brings his paintings and sketches to life.
Russian, Polish, French, Jewish motifs are all mixed in this suite for piano solo.
The recording used in this show is this one:
https://spoti.fi/3rm5reb -
Beethoven's Große Sonate für Hammerklavier b-flat major, op. 106
"Here you have a sonata that will be a hard nut to crack; pianists will grit their teeth from it for another 50 years". 200 years later, pianists still grit their teeth from Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata, and it stays quite a hard nut to crack!
A few recordings to check out:
https://spoti.fi/3k5hUQy
https://spoti.fi/2OLydX5 (part 6)
https://spoti.fi/2NOlYsA