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Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Saint-Saens is great fun!

Posted on the October 31st, 2009 under Saint Saens

“I actually regard playing a concerto almost like it’s chamber music. That’s why I enjoy it so much,” pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet says. As a concerto soloist, “I don’t feel I’m playing and not listening to the orchestra while they follow me. Music is ::More

Musicon / Liszt / Musical education / Characteristics of the Symphonic Poem

Characteristics of the Symphonic Poem

Posted on the May 23rd, 2009 under Liszt, Musical education

Three characteristics may be said to distinguish the Symphonic Poem, which in the view of the extremists who follow the lead of Liszt is the logical outcome of the symphony and the only expression of its aesthetic principles consonant with modern thought and feeling. First, it is ::More