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WPR Music Album of the Week: 'Beethoven and the Italians' (opens the original)
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In March of 1823, Ludwig van Beethoven sat down at his desk in Vienna not to compose a new piece, but to write a fan letter. The recipient was Luigi Cherubini, an Italian composer who had made his home in Paris since the 1780s, where he was a fixture on the city’s opera scene. What occasioned the letter was Beethoven’s own “Missa Solemnis”: he had just finished the work, and was looking for opportunities to have it performed abroad. But while he wrote a few composers and friends about this new m
WPR Music Album of the Week: Walton Symphonies from Birmingham (opens the original)
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The two symphonies by English composer William Walton are major twentieth century works, but they have yet to find a secure place in the repertoire. Part of the reason for that has to do with Walton himself: for most of his career, he was an aloof figure who never belonged to any particular school or movement and never taught any students. His style evolved considerably over his career, from his avant-garde early works, flirting with atonalism, to his mainstream success scoring British films, to
WPR Music Album of the Week: 'Stephen Hough’s Piano Postcards' (opens the original)
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Sir Stephen Hough has a well-deserved reputation as a polymath. He’s a concert pianist who’s released over 70 recordings to date, but he’s also a composer, a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, a painter, and a teacher at the Juilliard School. You would think all these activities would leave little time for fun, but as his latest album proves, that’s not the case. “Stephen Hough’s Piano Postcards” is a collection of short pieces that range from flashy encores to more introspective works. It e
WPR Music New Album of the Week: Brahms Symphonies from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (opens the original)
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When Robert Schumann published an article declaring a 20-year-old Johannes Brahms to be the next great composer — saying he would “give voice to the highest expression of the times” — people immediately started comparing the young man to Ludwig van Beethoven. This quickly became a problem for Brahms. More than anyone else in his time, Brahms idolized Beethoven, and the thought of failing to measure up to his hero paralyzed him. He knew that if he wasn’t going to write operas, like Wagner, or be
WPR Music New Album of the Week: Orchestral works of Mel Bonis (opens the original)
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Mélanie Hélène Bonis didn’t have a normal path to a career in music. She taught herself how to play the piano as a child, and eventually won a place at the Paris Conservatoire when she was 16. But after she fell in love with a classmate, her parents forced her to withdraw and arranged for her to marry a much older man. This seemed to put an end to her musical aspirations, but after she reconnected with her old flame a decade later, Mélanie Bonis left her husband and started writing music again.
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