Between Youthful Bravado and a Lost Ideal
A youthful violin concerto by Richard Strauss (1864-1949) alongside two works by Béla Bartók (1881-1945) from very different phases of his development: the comb...
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Geneva Lewis shows her versatility
Three American composers, three contrasting musical worlds, and one violinist who refuses to be confined to a single style. For her debut album on Delos, Geneva...
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Two French Cello Sonatas Between Lyricism and Gravity
Around 1900, French composers such as Debussy, Ravel and Fauré wrote music that still regularly appears on concert programmes today. Less familiar are the names...
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The Silence Behind the Italian Melody
Nocturne is a genre in which a pianist can evoke an entire world with modest means. On Italian Nocturnes, Maria Agnese Mason brings together piano music by Giov...
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From Heavenly Visions to Jazzy Piano Playing
Jean Françaix (1912–1997) is often associated with a refined, witty musical language, in which clarity and lightness go hand in hand with a strong sense of form...
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The Maillots of Jean-Christophe Maillot
The VRT and VTM news broadcasts were full of praise. "25 years ago, the world-famous Ballets de Monte Carlo last visited our country. Now they are on stage with...
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A hidden gem receives fifty bronze voices
The Sint-Walburgiskerk in Antwerp's Zuid welcomes a mobile carillon with more than fifty bells.
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Franck and Selva – a different take on familiar music
César Franck (1822-1890) and Blanche Selva (1884-1942) are central to this CD by the Belgian pianist Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. Alongside Franck's Prélude, Chor...
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Mozart in Dialogue
Mozart (1756–1791) can have the piano and violin tease, challenge and unexpectedly build on each other's ideas. In the Sonata in A major, K. 526, and the Sonata...
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12 to 18-Year-Olds Making Music Professionally
With Klassiek Centraal, we follow the various concerts of the Musica Mundi School in Waterloo throughout the current school year, as far as possible. The first...
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