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Classical Notes: August 10, 2010 Archive
Put your stamp on music
Posted at 11:39 AM on August 10, 2010
by Alison Young
Filed under: Fun finds
Christine Sweet shared some music-themed postage stamps from around the world with me.
I had no idea Suriname was so into Beethoven!
PT...the Proms...Paul Lewis...and Beethoven
Posted at 1:46 PM on August 10, 2010
by Ward Jacobson
Filed under: Musician stories, Programs
Paul Lewis was born in Liverpool two years after the Beatles broke up. Now he's on a quest to become the first pianist to perform all five Beethoven piano concertos in one summer at the BBC Proms in London, although not necessarily in order. Order, shmorder.
Performance Today featured Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 on today's show. No. 3 is coming up on Thursday's program. No. 5 comes later this month.
And just in case you missed it back in July, here's a sampling of Mr. Lewis at the Proms playing No. 4, with that exquisite opening phrase (it gets me every time).
A Mozart Piano?
Posted at 3:50 PM on August 10, 2010
by Rex Levang
Filed under: Fun finds, In the media
In a somewhat Antique-Roadshow news story, an 18th-century piano, owned by a German instrument builder, may now turn out to be a piano that Mozart played.
Of course, if that turns out to be so, the price that it could fetch will go up, many times.
There's no question of its age, but the Mozart connection remains to be firmly established. See the whole story here.
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