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My friend performed AR piano quartet in Israel
L’art de varier is brilliant.
A problem unfortunately only too common among some “presenters” on BBC Radio 3, across the whole range of composers…
A wonderful project !
Long overdue, it is beautiful music and well-made. A ‘conservative’ composer in his time, following Haydn’s penchant for unusual directions in the musical narrative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP85xrn52tw
Because nobody know it, it is ‘new’ music, written in the past.
Absolutely the same story as Pleyel! The Austrian and the French pronunciations are completely different, and he himself sometimes wrote his name Pleyl, and sometimes Pleijel, too.
Arthur Rubinstein wrote in his memoir that he would happily sign his autograph as Arthur, Artur, or Arturo depending on the local language wherever he was at the time. Sounds like Reicha did the same thing.