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  • Charlottesville Symphony’s Triumphal Season Closer

    Apr 25th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Adam Carter, Bedrich Smetana, benjamin rous, charlottesville symphony, Classical music, Concert Review, Franz Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner

    The final concert of the Charlottesville Symphony’s 2021-2022 season was also the first. The first concert that the full orchestra appeared onstage. COVID protocols severely limited the participation of the wind instruments throughout the season. The symphony responded with some imaginative programming that didn’t require a full orchestra. It was good to have the ensemble reunited, […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #SymYesNo Week 4

    Oct 1st, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #SymYesNo, Alexander Scriabin, Bela Bartok, Franz Joseph Haydn, Richard Strauss, Twitter

    For the month of September, the Classics a Day team chose a controversial theme. There is a small subset of symphonic works within the classical repertoire that appear misnamed. Most composers choose their titles carefully. But when the title runs counter to expectations, disagreements arise. What does the title “symphony” mean? Can a composition be […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalTimeMachine Week 4

    Nov 27th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalTimeMachine, #ClassicsaDay, Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Morton Gould, Sergei Rachmanoniv, Sviatoslav Richter, Twitter

    Last month the Classics a Day team chose vintage recordings as the theme. Specifically, recordings made before the LP era. This month, the focus moves forward in time a little, to the early LP era. This runs from 1948 to about 1958, with the advent of stereo recording. In that era (as with other eras […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalBubble Week 5

    Oct 2nd, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalBubble, #ClassicsaDay, Classical music, Franz Joseph Haydn, mary Ellen childs, Nebojsa Zivkovic, Twitter

    This month’s Classics a Day theme follows a trend. In May 2020 we were sheltering in place. The theme was #ClassicalDistancing — music for unusual solo instruments best played at home. In June, social bubbles were allowed, and so the theme #ClassicalBubble called for duos. Again, for unusual instruments best played at home. This month […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalBubble Week 1

    Sep 4th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalBubble, #ClassicsaDay, Classical music, Franz Joseph Haydn, Nicolas Chédeville, Philippe Dugué, Twitter

    This month’s Classics a Day theme follows a trend. In May 2020 we were sheltering in place. The theme was #ClassicalDistancing — music for unusual solo instruments best played at home. In June, social bubbles were allowed, and so the theme #ClassicalBubble called for duos. Again, for unusual instruments best played at home. This month […]

  • Solomiya Ivakhiv Double Concerto Project spans labels

    Mar 30th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Brilliant Classics, CD Review, Centaur, Classical music, Concerto, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Joseph Haydn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Romantic period, Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, Solomiya Ivakhiv, Theodore Kuchar

    This is something unusual — a recording series spread across different labels. Violinist Solmiya Ivakhiv and pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi wanted to record the double concertos of Haydn and Mendelssohn. While preparing, they discovered two other neglected works. Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a contemporary of Haydn, had also written a double concerto for violin and piano. And […]

  • Johann Simon Mayr piano concertos on par with Haydn’s

    Jan 20th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Ars Produktion, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Edna Stern, Franz Joseph Haydn, Gerogisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt, Johann Simon Mayr, Orchestral music, Ruben Gazarian

    The German composer Johann Simon Mayr dominated the music scene in northern Italy in the early 1800s. He was the maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Bergamo and wrote a prodigious amount of music: over 70 operas, 18 masses, and 57 symphonies. Today, he’s best known (if at all) as Gaetano Donizetti’s teacher. This […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalAutumn Week 1

    Oct 4th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalAutumn, #ClassicsaDay, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Leo Sowerby, Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Twitter

    In 2019 the Classics a Day team has been making its way through the seasons. We’ve had Classical Winter (January), Classical Spring (April), and Classical Summer (August). For October, we complete the cycle with Classical Autumn. I tried to steer clear of the really obvious choices (like Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”). In the process, I managed […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #SummerClassics Weeks 1 and 2

    Aug 9th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalSummer, #ClassicsaDay, Anon. 13th C., Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Joseph Haydn, Joseph Suk, Philippe Chamouard, Sigismond Thalberg, Twitter

    It was a busy summer for the Classics a Day team. In June, we marked African-American Music Appreciation Month. In July we celebrated national holidays in the U.S. and  Canada. So that just left August to have a summer theme. For my part, I chose to choose anything except Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” In the process, […]

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