As cellist of the Nash Ensemble and the Emerson Quartet, Paul Watkins has immersed himself in almost all the chamber music Beethoven wrote. Now he brings those years of experience to his first recording of the cello sonatas. He approached the pianist Alessio Bax for this project after hearing him play the Moonlight Sonata, and…
Josef Slenczynski lay on the battlefield and bargained. A down-at-the-heels young man from Poland who had come to the United States not long before, Mr. Slenczynski was serving in World War I with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. In civilian life he was a violinist of large ambition but no large reputation, and now…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 10. The second international piano competition “Sounds of the Land of Fire”, dedicated to the 140th anniversary of Uzeyir Hajibeyli, the founder of Azerbaijani classical music and the author of the first opera in the East, has concluded in Austria’s Vienna, the State Committee on Work with Diaspora told Trend….
