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DCV 047 – Rudolf Escher: Sonata concertante / Sonata per violino e pianoforte / Arcana

DCV 047

Rudolf Escher

Sonata concertante / Sonata per violino e pianoforte / Arcana

Various Artists

General Rudolf George Escher was born on January 8th, 1912 in Amsterdam. He was the son of Emma Brosy and geologist Berend George Escher, who also gave him piano lessons. On March 17th, 1989, Escher died from an incurable liver disease.
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At the very first Orlando Festival concert, the two central composers, Rudolf Escher and Ludwig Beethoven, are honored with two representative works that they composed in their 33rd year of life. Eleven and nine works by Beethoven and Escher can be heard at Orlando respectively, these composers are featured almost daily.
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Three intimate monuments to Bach, Escher and Beethoven At this varied concert, three renowned Orlando musicians play three monumental compositions from three centuries of chamber music.
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DCV 447 Rudolf Escher Concerto for String Orchestra / Musique pour l’esprit en deuil Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly
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On Sunday afternoon, February 5, pianist Thomas Beijer – winner of the prestigious Dutch Music Prize 2022 – will perform in the concert series of Podium Eibergen.
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In the Netherlands, contemporary choral music is an important part of the excellent and progressive choral scene. There are also countless repertoire treasures in early music – from Franco-Flemish vocal polyphony to music of the Renaissance and early Baroque.
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ATT 200394 Rudolf Escher Complete Music for Flute Marieke Schneemann and Ralph van Raat
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Composers in the crosshairs of our attention

Composer

Michael Fine

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.
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Composer

Jan-Peter de Graaff

Netherlands, 1992,
"De Graaff is een alleskunner en een echte en helder opflitsende komeet aan het muzikale firmament die aan niemand ongemerkt voorbij kan gaan." - Maarten Brandt, Opus Klassiek
"De Graaff is een tovenaar met orkestkleuren in een taal die weliswaar van nu is, maar harmonisch ook vaak vertrouwd klinkt." - Paul Herruer, Dagblad van het Noorden
"De Graaffs grootste kracht schuilt in een paradox: stilstand die zindert van spanning." - Guido van Oorschot, De Volkskrant 
 
"Zijn muziek is in essentie atonaal, maar doordat ze niet is doodgesystematiseerd en De Graaff in de contouren en het verloop van zijn melodieën nog steeds romantisch durft te zijn, wordt de luisteraar met zachte, maar dwingende hand meegevoerd in het abstracte verhaal dat hij wil vertellen. Een grote troef is hierbij zijn orkestratiekunst. De muziek is kleurrijk, blijft altijd helder en verrassend." - Erik Voermans, Het Parool
 
"Had iemand mij van te voren voorspeld dat in een programma van Bach, Bartók en Jan-Peter de Graaff het stuk van de laatste mij het meest zou boeien, dan had ik dat niet geloofd. - Dingeman van Wijnen, Friesch Dagblad
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Composer

Celia Swart

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.
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Composer

Maxim Shalygin

January 30, 1985

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

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