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Élan Recordings
Élan Recordings is an independent record label specializing in classical music. History Élan Recordings was established in 1985 by pianist Santiago Rodriguez and his wife, Natalia Rodriguez. The catalogue features numerous Spanish/Latin recordings. It also features a number of historic re-releases. Santiago Rodriguez records exclusively for Élan.McLellan (June 7, 1998) Artists * Santiago Rodriguez, pianist *Carmen Balthrop, soprano *Elias Barreiro, guitar *Bibiano Borrato, guitar *Rudolfo Brito, pianist *Hsuan-Ya Chen, pianist *Mark Clinton and Nicole Narboni, duo pianists * Cuarteto Latinoamericano, string quartet *Evelyn Garvey, fortepiano *Jaemi Kim, pianist *André Laplante, pianist *Noel Lester, pianist *Raymond Lewenthal, pianist *Donald Manildi, pianist *Elmar Oliveira, violinist *Reubén Pelåez, pianist *Nathaniel Rosen, cellist *Thomas Schumaker, pianist *Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra *Earl Wild, pianist References Sources *Ashby. "Guide to Records: Santiago R ...
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Santiago Rodriguez (pianist)
Santiago Rodriguez (born February 16, 1952) is a Cuban-American pianist. Rodriguez is an exclusive recording artist for Élan Recordings.Mangan (March 8, 1991) His Rachmaninov recordings received the Rosette award in '' The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music'' and he is a silver medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Background Rodriguez was born in Cárdenas, Cuba, and began piano studies at age four with Nelson DeBerge. When Rodriguez was eight years old, he and his brother became part of Project Peter Pan, a project sponsored by Catholic Charities which brought Cuban children to America during Fidel Castro’s regime. Although his parents originally thought that they would be quickly reunited, it took six years for the parents to immigrate to America. He continued his piano lessons while living in the orphanage in New Orleans supported by money that his mother had sewn in his coat. When he was ten years old, Rodriguez debuted with the New Orleans Sy ...
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Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
The Sofia Philharmonic (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: Софийска филхармония) was founded in 1893. The current music director is Nayden Todorov. The Sofia Philharmonic includes the National Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic Choir "Svetoslav Obretenov", "Sofia" quartet, "Quarto" quartet, vocal ensembles Bella Voce and Impresia. The home of the Sofia Philharmonic is Concert Complex "Bulgaria". It includes a great concert hall "Bulgaria", chamber music hall, studio "Music" and art gallery "Bulgaria". Singers who performed with the Sofia Philharmonic include Placido Domingo, José Carreras, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flórez, Rolando Villazón, Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Nicola Ghiuselev, Raina Kabaivanska, Ghena Dimitrova, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Sonya Yoncheva, Anna Netrebko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Darina Takova, Elīna Garanča and Vesselina Kasarova. In 2019, Sofia Philharmonic was invited by The Walt Disney Compan ...
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Washington Post
''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and has a national audience. As of 2023, the ''Post'' had 130,000 print subscribers and 2.5 million digital subscribers, both of which were the List of newspapers in the United States, third-largest among U.S. newspapers after ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer (financier), Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy and revived its health and reputation; this work was continued by his successors Katharine Graham, Katharine and Phil Graham, Meyer's daughter and son-in-law, respectively, who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post ...
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The Penguin Guide To Recorded Classical Music
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun '' the ...
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Fanfare (magazine)
''Fanfare'' is an American bimonthly magazine devoted to reviewing recorded music in all playback formats. It mainly covers classical music, but since inception, has also featured a jazz column in every issue. History and profile ''Fanfare'' was founded on 1 September 1977 "as a labor of love"Rockwell, John (29 June 1980)"The New Crop of Music Magazines" ''The New York Times''. by an elementary-school teacher turned editor named Joel Bruce Flegler (born 1941). After years, he is still the publisher. The magazine now runs to over 600 pages in a format with about 80% of the editorial copy devoted to record reviews, and a front section with a substantial number of interviews and feature articles. It avoids equipment and pop music Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop ... ...
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Toledo Blade
''The Blade'', also known as the ''Toledo Blade'', is a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, published daily online and printed Thursday and Sunday by Block Communications. The newspaper was first published on December 19, 1835. Overview The first issue of what was then the ''Toledo Blade'' was printed on December 19, 1835. It has been published daily since 1848 and is the oldest continuously run business in Toledo. David Ross Locke gained national fame for the paper during the Civil War era by writing under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby. Under this name, he wrote satires ranging on topics from slavery, to the Civil War, to temperance. President Abraham Lincoln was fond of the Nasby satires and sometimes quoted them. In 1867 Locke bought the ''Toledo Blade''. The paper dropped "Toledo" from its masthead in 1960. In 2004 ''The Blade'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with a series of stories entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths". The story brought to light the s ...
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American Record Guide
The ''American Record Guide'' (''ARG'') is a classical music magazine. It has reviewed classical music recordings since 1935. History and profile The magazine was founded by Peter Hugh Reed in May 1935 as the ''American Music Lover''. It changed names to the ''American Record Guide'' in 1944. Reed was its editor and publisher until 1957.
(September 26, 1969). ''The New York Times'', p. 47, col. 2.
Since 1992, with the incorporation of the '''' editorial functions into ARG, it started covering concerts, musicians, ensembles and orchestras in the US. The magazine prides itself in having "500 reviews in every issue, written by a freelance ...
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Cellist
The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, scientific pitch notation, C2, G2, D3 and A3. The viola's four strings are each an octave higher. Music for the cello is generally written in the bass clef; the tenor clef and treble clef are used for higher-range passages. Played by a ''List of cellists, cellist'' or ''violoncellist'', it enjoys a large solo repertoire Cello sonata, with and List of solo cello pieces, without accompaniment, as well as numerous cello concerto, concerti. As a solo instrument, the cello uses its whole range, from bass to soprano, and in chamber music, such as string quartets and the orchestra's string section, it often plays the bass part, where it may be reinforced an octave lower by the double basses. Figured bass music ...
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Classical Music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be #Relationship to other music traditions, distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to List of classical and art music traditions, non-Western art musics. Classical music is often characterized by formality and complexity in its musical form and Harmony, harmonic organization, particularly with the use of polyphony. Since at least the ninth century, it has been primarily a written tradition, spawning a sophisticated music notation, notational system, as well as accompanying literature in music analysis, analytical, music criticism, critical, Music history, historiographical, musicology, musicological and Philosophy of music, philosophical practices. A foundational component of Western culture, classical music is frequently seen from the perspective of individual or com ...
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Elmar Oliveira
Elmar Oliveira (born June 28, 1950) is an American violinist. Early life The son of Portuguese immigrants, Elmar Oliveira was born in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Oliveira was nine when he began studying the violin with his brother John. At age 16 he appeared in a nationally-televised concert from Lincoln Center of child prodigy performers hosted by Leonard Bernstein, as part of Bernstein's Young People's Concerts series. He later studied with Ariana Bronne and Raphael Bronstein at the Hartt College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. In 1978 he won (ex aequo together with Ilya Grubert) the first prize at the Tchaikowsky Competition in Moscow. Career He was a Grammy nominee for his 1990 CD of the Barber Concerto with Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony. His recorded works for Artek, Angel, Sony Masterworks, Vox, Delos, IMP, Naxos, Ondine, Élan, and Melodiya range widely from works by Bach and Vivaldi to contemporary composers. His best-selling 1997 recording of ...
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