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AmsterdamBeethoven Festival: Alena Baeva plays Beethoven's Violin Concerto
Beethoven
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century; Alexander Janiczek; Alena Baeva
BarcelonaFerrández & Orquestra del Festival Pau Casals
Haydn, Mozart, Dvořák
Orquestra del Festival Pau Casals; Alexander Janiczek; Pablo Ferrández; Lily Francis
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Timeless Beethoven from Llŷr Williams in Edinburgh
Three concertos and a symphony; three soloists and an ever-expanding chamber orchestra; the SCO in Stravinsky, Mozart and Beethoven.
SCO and Llŷr Williams: a programme of concertos
Llŷr Williams, Alexander Janiczek and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a triple concerto evening.
Piotr Anderszewski and Alexander Janiczek with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
This creative SCO programme offered two works in either half, performed in reverse chronological order. Virtuoso violinist Alexander Janiczek directed the first of each pair, beginning with Schubert’s 1817 Overture in D major “In the Italian Style”, D.590.
Words and Music
Many writers dream of having letters after their name, particularly if those letters are -esque. The idea that one's prose style prompts recognition and imitation has an obvious appeal. Few could have been more surprised at attracting this suffix than Franz Kafka (1883–1924) who, having had no novels published in his lifetime urged, without success, the posthumous destruction of his opus.