Word: conductor
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...their splendid new recording of Beethoven's nine symphonies on the Archiv label, English conductor John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Revolutionnaire & et Romantique aim to recreate the music of Beethoven as his audience experienced it. The brilliant and incisive Gardiner stands in the forefront of the original-instruments movement, whose adherents employ period instruments (originals and replicas) and the latest textual scholarship in order to play music as closely as possible to the way it was first heard. Having begun with the Baroque era, the movement has progressed to the 19th century. Gardiner already has a revelatory version...
...Beethoven symphonies are his most ambitious project yet. The nine -- which cover a technical and emotional range unmatched by the work of any other composer -- are the bedrock of the conductor's art, and rare is the maestro who has not committed the cycle to disk at least once. Gardiner, however, has set out to do something different with these familiar pieces...
...Gilels, he had been a student of Heinrich Neuhaus' at the Moscow Conservatory, where he met Prokofiev and premiered the composer's Sixth, Seventh and Ninth piano sonatas. Unlike most of the fire- breathing Soviet wunderkinder, though, Richter came to the piano late, originally planning a career as a conductor; until he went to study with Neuhaus at age 21, he was largely self-taught...
There are always opportunities to rediscover the wonders of Beethoven and this recent album will move your soul, says TIME Music Critic Michael Walsh. Why? It's recorded on instruments used in Beethoven's era -- the 1820s -- under the direction of conductor John Eliot Gardiner who "whips up some excitement."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
Sony's Hollywood foray began, as so many sour business deals do, with bold rhetoric and grand strategies. Norio Ohga, the part-time symphony orchestra conductor who has been Sony's CEO since 1989, believed in a "synergy" between Sony's core business, producing "hardware" such as VCRS and camcorders, and Hollywood's "software" -- movies. Owning a studio, Sony thought, would help give the company the clout to set the industry standard for the next generation of digital video technology. In the early 1980s Sony's Betamax format of analog videotapes lost out to VHS, so Sony was determined...