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Chopin, Mozart and Beethoven at the Hellenic Centre On Monday 16 November: Piano Recital Panayiotis Gogos London - 16/11/2009 Chopin, Mozart and Beethoven at the Hellenic Centre On Monday 16 November at 7.15pm, the Hellenic Centre is presenting a piano recital by the distinguished pianist Panayiotis Gogos at its Great Hall. The program, built around Frederic Chopin's 24 Preludes, also includes the highly dramatic Fantasie by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Moonlight Sonata, the most renown of romantic compositions from Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 sonatas. The audience...
Posted 05 November 2009 11:38 AM by charlotte | with no comments
Filed under: Beethoven, chopin, mozart, London, november, hellenic centre, year chopin 2010, panayiotis gogos, alfred cortot, great hall, 24 preludes, best young soloist, konzerthaus vienna, fantasie, moonlight sonata, polish society salon chopin, edwin fischer, the greek academy of art & literature, piano recital

Mozart - Le Nozze De Figaro - Canzonetta sull'aria: The Score: Nominated for an Academy Award in 2004, Thomas Newman's score to this film reflects the emotional intensity of the film. A particular highlight of the movie was the beautiful 'Sull 'Aria' from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera 'Le Nozze di Figaro', which was broadcast live to the prisoners. Release date: 10 September 1994 Director: Frank Darabont Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman The Film: The Shawshank Redemption centres on one man - Andy Dufresne. He is convicted...
Posted 27 January 2009 10:47 AM by charlotte | with no comments
Filed under: mozart, score, tim robbins, canzonetta sull'aria, andy, le nozze de figaro, redding, ellis, morgan freeman, red, thomas newman, the shawshank redemption, andy dufresne, frank darabont

Brendel: Schubert Op. 90/3: Alfred Brendel, one of the world's greatest pianists, is giving his final public performances this week. Brendel, 77, will take his final bow at the famous Golden Auditorium in the Musikverein, in Vienna, Austria, after 60 years on the concert stage. He will perform Mozart's ninth piano concerto, K.271 in E-flat major - the Jenamy - with the Vienna Philharmonic later and on Thursday. Brendel was born in 5 January 1931 at Wiesenberg, northern Moravia - now the Czech Republic - and began studying...
Posted 19 December 2008 09:28 AM by charlotte | with no comments
Filed under: Beethoven, mozart, vienna, schubert, bach, schoenberg, ninth piano concerto, jenamy, K.271, golden auditorium, weisenberg, austria, vienna philarmonic, e flat major, musikverein, bredndel, great pianist, northern moravia, schubert Op. 90/3, czech republic, busoni competition, final performance

Daniel Barenboim - Moonlight sonata - 1ºmov Adagio sostenuto: Daniel Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires in 1942 to parents of Jewish Russian descent. He started piano lessons at the age of five with his mother, continuing to study with his father who remained his only other teacher. In August 1950, when he was only seven years old, he gave his first official concert in Buenos Aires. He debuted as a pianist in Vienna and Rome in 1952, in Paris in 1955, in London in 1956 and in New York in 1957 with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Symphony of the Air. From then...
Posted 04 November 2008 02:28 PM by charlotte | with no comments
Filed under: Moonlight Sonata mvt. 1, piano, mozart, London, new york, vienna, paris, europe, rome, symphony of the air, the ring cycle, jewish russian, united states, daniel barenboim, australia, die meistersinger, don giovanni, parisfal, buenos aires, tristan und isolde, bayreuth festival, opera, leopold stokowski, edinburgh international festival, versatile, conducting, pianist

Vanessa Mae - Destiny: The seductive Vanessa and her violin with a dance beat. This from the album Subject to Change. Born in Singapore on October 27, 1978 Vanessa-Mae moved to London with her family when she was four and began classical violin studies the following year. She made her professional debut on the international stage at the 1988 Schleswig-Holstein Festival in 1988, the same year she made her concerto debut in the U.K. with London's Philharmonia Orchestra. She became the youngest violinist ever to record...
Posted 26 September 2008 11:01 AM by charlotte | with no comments
Filed under: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, vanessa mae, the violin player, destiny, londons philarmonic orchestra, mozart, classical violin, subject to change