On March 9, WTJU host Ralph Graves programmed exclusively Ukrainian music for Classical Prelude and Classical Sunrise. Classical music in Ukraine dates back to the era of Haydn and Mozart. And this programming by no means represents every classical Ukrainian composer of the past 300 years. Listen here: Ukraine’s history as a country is complex. At times, […]
Sergei Bortkiewicz
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#ClassicsaDay #ArmisticeClassics Week 2
November 19, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War. The #ClassicaDay team asked participants to post classical works related to the conflict. For my part, I tried to find examples from both sides of the war, and from as many different countries as possible. Here are my posts […]
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Powerful Post-Romantic Concertos by Sergei Bortkiewicz
If you’re not familiar with the music of Sergei Bortkiewicz this release is a great place to start. Russian pianist and composer Bortkiewicz was a contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nicolai Medtner. Like them, he fully embraced the Romantic aesthetic throughout his life. Bortkiewicz seems to have just ignored Stravinsky, Bartok, and Schoenberg. His Second […]