Leonid Brumberg plays Ravel Miroirs (4/4) Monday, February 28, 2011

Ravel: Miroirs No. 5 - La vallée des cloches Leonid Brumberg, piano Live recording from 1992, Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow Leonid Brumberg was born 1925 in Rostow-on-Don. He studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Neuhaus, instrumentation with Shostakovich and composition with Miaskovsky. Later he became the assistant of Neuhaus at the Gnessin Academy. In 1981 he emigrated to Vienna and has been professor at the Vienna Conservatory. He gave many concerts thoughout Europe, the Near East and Japan. He performed as a soloist with different orchestras under Roshdestvensky, Svetlanov, Kondrashin, Mehta and others.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcQaP2wn87Q&hl=en

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Helene Wildbrunn, Liebestod, Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Unpublished take ,1919) Sunday, February 13, 2011

The great Austrian dramatic soprano Helene Wildbrunn (1882-1972) in "Mild und leise" from Act 3 of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. This take, which was unpublished, was made in 1919 for Deutsch Grammophon. Wildbrunn was one of the most outstanding Hochdramatische of her era. Among her admirers were Lotte Lehmann, who wrote of her 'noble art'. The following biographical notes come from "Subito-cantabile: a site for collectors of great singers of the past" (www.cantabile-subito.de): "She was a pupil of Rosa Papier-Paumgartner at the Conservatory "Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde," who had previously taught Anna Bahr-Mildenburg and Lucie Weidt. At the beginning of her career she sang contralto and mezzo roles and made her debut at the Municipal Theatre in Dortmund in 1907. In one season she sang twenty-three roles! Having married her tenor partner Karl Wildbrunn, she gradually began to take over the soprano repertoire but even in 1913 she still sang Waltraute, Erda, Fricka and Brangäne. In the following year she was engaged to the opera house in Stuttgart and she concentrated chiefly in the dramatic Wagner repertory where she stayed for five years. Her subsequent roles were Rezia, Amelia, Leonore, Brünnhilde in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, Valentine in Les Huguenots, Kundry and the Marschallin. From 1918 she was a member of the Berlin State Opera and in 1925 at the City Opera where she shared the dramatic roles with Margarete Bäumer . In 1919 she sang at the Vienna State opera ...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TooqAYUkukg&hl=en

Radetzky_Concerto Vienna 2007 - Wien New Year Concert 2007 Saturday, February 5, 2011

POWERED BY PAULMEDIA'S STAFF Radetzky March__Concerto Nuovo Anno Vienna 2007 - Wien New Year Concert 2007 - Wien NeuJhare Konzert 2007 Wiener Philarmonische



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSKKLROWgOI&hl=en

Vancouver 2010: Austrian Ski Jumping Team Wednesday, February 2, 2011

As the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics approach, we take a look at reigning ski jumping champions Austria!!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_407BpGKAB4&hl=en

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