“Awkward and strange” – but still a “shining treasure”!
In her essay “Zurück vom Ring”, Yaara Tal explores the work “En blanc et noir” by Claude Debussy, composed during World War I in 1915. In it she reveals references to Richard Wagner.
Violin video: Igor Ozim on Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
An video interview with the violin maestro, Igor Ozim, on Mendelssohn’s masterpiece, in which he talks about his lifelong musical experience, the different ways he has approached learning and reworking the concerto, as well as the importance of one particular violinist for Mendelssohn while composing it. More »
Commenting on a decisecond Bach – B or B flat in the B-flat major ‘Corrente’ BWV 825
A short time ago our attention was drawn to a supposed error in our Urtext edition HN 28 of the ‘Six Partitas’ by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 825-830): it was maintained that in the Corrente of the first Partita in B-flat major the last left-hand note in bar 12 erroneously has a ♮. More »
In her essay “Zurück vom Ring”, Yaara Tal explores the work “En blanc et noir” by Claude Debussy, composed during World War I in 1915.
