Faces of Classical Music (2013-2022) Thank you very much for your interest all these years ..read more

Photo by Ranko Djurovic* The Faces of Classical Music wish you a Happy New Year! * Photo by Ranko Djurovic, National Awards, Winner, Serbia, 2019 Sony World Photography Awards ..read more

By Tal Agam The Classic Review – September 28, 2021 Those who liked Alexandra Papastefanou's recent Bach recordings – the French Suites and two books of the Well-Tempered Clavier – will immediately recognize that this new recording of the Goldberg Variations comes from the same artist; Semi-improvisational style, expressive phrasing, and unashamed usage of the sustaining pedal, especially on the slower variations. This is not a "clinical" Bach, nor is it philosophical or cold-hearted. There is a sense of spontaneity throughout, not coming out of recklessness, bu ..read more

Luka Šulić (cello) and Evgeny Genchev (piano) play popular melodies at the Union Hall Maribor, Slovenia, in December 2020. Union Hall is the only preserved building of the former Götz Brewery, which was the leading brewery in Maribor since the second half of the 19th century until the First World War. In 1911, a central building was built, Götz Hall, which was already then the largest venue for events in Maribor. In 1926 Götz Brewery became part of the Ljubljana's Union Brewery; hence the name Union Hall. But Union Brewery first limited its production in Maribor, and t ..read more

  Son of the renowned musician David Oistrakh, the violinist and educator lived to the age of 90 The Strad — September 1, 2021 Violinist Igor Oistrakh has died at the age of 90. He was born in 1931 in Odessa, Ukraine, the son of Tamara Rotareva and acclaimed violinist David Oistrakh. After initial musical studies with his father, Oistrakh studied at the Central Music School in Moscow, followed by tuition at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He won the Budapest International Violin Competition in 1949, as well as the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition ..read more

Kathimerini — September 2, 2021 Greek veteran composer and political activist Mikis Theodorakis, who was instrumental in raising global awareness of Greece's plight during the 1967-1974 military dictatorship, has died at the age of 96. Born on the island of Chios, on 29 July 1925, he studied music in Athens and later Paris. His work ranges from rousing songs based on major Greek poetic works, many of which remain left-wing anthems for decades, to symphonies and film scores. He composed perhaps the most recognizable Greek music internationally, the syrtaki from the ..read more

When you begin playing an instrument, there is music that draws you in and propels you – those works you aspire to one day, maybe, hopefully play. Many of these will be challenging, technically demanding pieces, to which your early abilities will be no match. But Chopin's Nocturnes can provide an early introduction to the kaleidoscope of his inventive and enthralling music. It is thus that I was introduced to Chopin at a young age, with his first Nocturne (Op.9/1), spending many hours searching for the secrets hidden within. I was enamoured, and through the years of be ..read more

Luka Šulić (cello) and Evgeny Genchev (piano) play popular melodies at No Borders Music Festival, at Fusine Lakes in Tarvisio, Italy, on July 25, 2020. The No Borders Music Festival is a music festival which has become a unique "vehicle" in the Region and in the entire "Without Borders" area for black music, soul, unconventional jazz, afro-music, advanced dance, which attracts fans from all over the world, not just from Italy, but from all over Europe. The program aims to promote music as a form of culture and a means of communication which enriches and is understood by e ..read more

Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne-Katharina Schreiber (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyra (cello), and Alexander Melnikov (period piano), play Robert Schumann's Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.47, and Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op.44, and Johann Sebastian Bach's Five Fugues from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Vol. 2, arrangement for string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, KV.405. Recorded at the 17th Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, at Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, on August 18, 2021. Robert Schumann (1810-1856) ♪ Piano Quarte ..read more

On Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020, the exceptional violinist plays Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata No.3 in C major for Solo Violin, BWV 1005, in the empty St Thomas Church in Leipzig. In these unusual and challenging times, her Bach interpretation exudes calm and confidence. "In her concentration, the violinist acts like a medium through which this unique music reaches us today", says the NZZ about Isabelle Faust's interpretation of the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach. "What Faust is searching for on the inside is [...] a truthfulness that results not ..read more