Music & Art 3/3

Emi Igarashi / Editor

2/27/2021 One of Russian Five, Alexander Borodin, String Quartet No. 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YVd5efkUnw The performance is by Borodin Quartet recorded in1973. The quartet members at that time were...

Makiko Border

2/24/2021 WCPE Classical Station from North Carolina

This time, I would like to introduce WCPE (https://theclassicalstation.org/), a radio station that provides only classical music 24 hours...

Yasuko Kanafuji

2/20/2021 YouTube in the Nest (“stay-at-home”) with Movies and Music

“Alternation of three cold and four warm days（三寒四温)” Here in the western part of Tokyo, the temperature on warm days is higher than usual...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

2/16/2021 Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E flat major, op 47,Third Movement; Andante Cantabile

It has been more than ten plus some years since I heard the first “live” Schumann’s piano quartet in E flat major, op 47, with my late...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

2/15/2021 J.S. Bach "Concerto for two violines" in D minor, BDV 1043

The "Bach Double" concerto is a pure musical dialogue with "two soloists passing back and forth melodic ideas," said Burton-Hill. Bach...

Makiko Border

2/14/2021 "Virtual Concert" Live Stream from North Carolina

For the first time, I had a chance to listen to an online concert on live stream. The performance of virtual "Live Time" was done by a...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

2/11/2021 Is is mid-February. Be consoled by Liszt "Six Consolations"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGDJZgQPK8E Barton-Hill’s selection is “Consolations” by Franz Liszt. It is also called in the original...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

1/23/2021 Beethoven String Quartet, op 18 no. 1

OP18 no.1 in F major by Beethoven is the first quartet I played with a group (of older ladies living in Menlo Park, CA.) in the late...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

1/20/2021About Burton-Hill's book "Year of Wonder"

"Year of Wonder" by Clemency Burton-Hill's is frequently referred to in this blog. The book has been highly regarded by many young...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

1/17/2021Albinoni Oboe Concerto op 9 no. 2 Adagio　

The oboe, which is perhaps the most difficult of the wind instrument, occupies a privileged position in the orchestra. Before the...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

1/16/2021　Scriabin　Etude op 2 no. 1

On January 16 Burton-Hill selected Scriabin's etude op 2 no. 1. According to Burton-Hill, "Look, sometimes what we must really need in...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

1/14/2021 E Lucevan Le Stelle ”And the stars were shining” from Tosca by　Giacomo Puccini

The music selection on January 14 by Burton-Hill is "E Lucevan Le Stelle (And the Stars were shining)” sung by Cavaradossi (tenor) in the...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

1/13/2021 Starting my Blog "Music and Friends"

I have been fortunate as I have been able to enjoy a normal life and to stay safe in 2020 although the year has been rather long and...