...and the course is over, apparently successfully so. The only downside, as far as I can see, is that I ate far too many of the chocolate shortbread biscuits that were intended for my students. We'll do it again, but maybe with only one box of those next time. Suggested dates are 24 January and 1 February, but please watch my news page for further details.
Mad props meanwhile to Aarp.org's Richard Gehr (yes, I nearly misread that one too - wishful thinking...) for picking JDCMB as his favourite music site, and to the one and only Opera Chic for the shoutout in her interview with Artsjournal's Life's A Pitch. OC is on a Katherine Jenkins roll at present...
What with one thing and another, I haven't plugged Vladimir Jurowski's Revealing Tchaikovsky festival as much as I should. It's a knockout. Iolanta, with the LPO, Tatiana Monogarova and a similarly luscious cast, moved a number of us to tears - gorgeous, life-affirming and deeply touching. This week, catch the Manfred Symphony with Vlad at the RFH on Wednesday and the Second Piano Concerto and Suite No.3 with Rozhdestvensky & Postnikova on Friday.
3 comments:
Hi Jessica,
It was a shame that I couldn't get to your workshop this time, but will hopefully be free for the next one.
Wasn't Iolanta stunning...that was a brilliant performance. I also enjoyed the concert featuring Simon Callow. Although they missed out some very interesting parts of Tchaik's life, it was still very good.
I've been reading the blog for a while, and thought I'd chime in. Keep up the great work!
Just wanted to say how much I like the CD 'Hungarian Dances'. Philippe's playing is really wonderful: poetic, fiery and touching by turns. I love the 'Valse triste'.
Anne, I'm so glad you liked the disc - I'm still quite overwhelmed by it. When else would we ever have heard Vecsey's Valse Triste? Or the Scarlatescu Bagatelle, which is one of my favourite tracks...could go on about it for hours, but would rather everyone just had a listen themselves.
Matto, I'll email you the details of the next workshops - really hope you can make it! I missed the Simon Callow concert, sadly, but it does sound fun.
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