Polish pianist. Began piano lessons at ten years of age under K. Mirski and Janina Illasiewicz-Stojałowska in Rzeszów. At age 15, he won first place in the Competition of Young Talents in Rzeszów. (continue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHKS1Bjzpos&feature=related) Nocturne No.20, op. posth. in C-sharp minor, composed in 1830, dedicated to Frederic's older sister, Ludwika Chopin.
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Berceuse in D flat major opus 57 (1843) Mieczysław (Miecio) Horszowski (1892-1993), piano Recorded in 1940 "Horszowski was both very Jewish and very Catholic, in both cases as only a Pole could have been." (André Tubeuf) Pictures: 1) Portrait of M.H. as a boy by Arturo Rietti (1863-1943) 2) M.H. 3) Right hand of M.H. 4) M.H. 5) Daguerreotype of Chopin (1846) 6) T. Kwiatkowski (1809-1891), sketch of Chopin (1843) 7) F.H. Rumpf (1882-1949), portrait of Chopin 8) […]
No_Exit_(Huis__Clos)_Harold_Pinter.avi Regarder cette vidéo sur video.google.fr 1:23:49 Starring Harold Pinter, Jane Arden and Catherine Woodville, this is Philip Saville's production of Stuart Gilbert's translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's 'Huis Clos'. Three people are sent to hell, which turns out not to be quite what they expected. As the reasons for their presence down below become apparent, so does the fact that they are going to torment each other for eternity, as hell is other people. […]
Petrushka: Andris Liepa; The Ballerina: Tatiana Beletskaya; The Moor: Gedminas Taranda; Magician: Sergey Petukhov *Bolshoi Ballet Company, with Andrey Chistiakov conducting Bolshoi State Academic Theatre Orchestra ************* Petrouchka or Petrushka (French: Pétrouchka; Russian: Петрушка) is a ballet with music by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. Petrushka is a story of a Russian traditional puppet, Petrushka, who is made of straw and with a bag of sawdust as his body, but who comes t […]
Mikhail Fokine's choreography for the Polovtsian Dances by Borodin, as performed by the Kirov Opera and Ballet under Valery Gergiev. From PRINCE IGOR, available on DVD from Philips. My thoughts at http://danielstephenjohnson.blogspot.... http://www.internationalnews.fr/article-polovtsian-dances-41924597.html
The history of pianists playing Chopin is rich with names such as Horowitz, Askenazy, Pollini, Ohlsson, Rubenstein, Rachmaninoff, Argerich, Pogorelich, Zimmerman, Cortot, and Arrau. And yet one name, usually neglected or forgotten by the classical listener, is Adam Harasiewicz (b.1932). The pianist, legendary in his native country of Poland and across Europe, won the prestigious and lofty First Prize in the 1955 International Chopin Competition, beating both Vladimir Askenazy and Fou Ts'ong […]
Firebird: Nina Ananiashvili Prince Ivan: Andris Liepa Princess: Ekaterina Liepa Kashchey: Sergey Petukhov Ballet masters: Alexander Prokofiev, Nikolay Androsov The Firebird (French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица, Žar-ptica) is a 1910 ballet by Igor Stravinsky and choreographed by Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor. The music was premiered as a ballet by Diaghile […]
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