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Hank Zauderer is a violinist and an artist. He regularly hosts an evening classical music program at NPR radio station KUSP in Santa Cruz, California. In the past he was a member of several symphony orchestras and chamber music groups. In particular, he loves the study of great composers and feels that music composition so often reflects the key events that took place in a composer's life.
Hank's taste includes the old Gregorian Chants and related religious works as well as music of the Baroque, Classical, and the Romantic period. Some of his favorites include Mahler, Edward Elgar, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, and Benjamin Britten.
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Father and Son
Posted: Tuesday | 11.29.11
Vladimir and Vovka Ashkenazy: Russian Fantasy
Following their album of French music for two pianos, son and father Vovka and Vladimir Ashkenazy present this interesting program by the great composers of Russia:
Borodin:
Glinka:
Mussorgsky:
Rachmaninov:
Scriabin:
Three of the works have been arranged by Vovka Ashkenazy himself, including Mussorgsky’s Night On The Bald Mountain and the album’s virtuosic finale, Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances from his opera Prince Igor. Vovka Ashkenazy’s two-piano arrangement of Glinka’s Valse-fantaisie is itself based on Sergei Lyapunov’s arrangement for piano four hands.
CD to be released 11/22/2011
Here is a video of Johannes Brahms’ Piano concerto n°1 in D minor, op.15, 1st movement; performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
And here is Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
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