Photo: Marlene Mey and Nikolaj Lund, courtesy Bergen International Festival
Composer Missy Mazzoli and violinist Johan Dalene
Bergen International Festival, the largest curated festival for music and performing arts in the Nordic region, launches tomorrow 26 May. This year provides audiences worldwide with digital access to 30 events with highlights including, among many others, 2021 Festival Composer Missy Mazzoli and young violinist Johan Dalene, winner of the 2019 Norwegian Soloist Prize. Mazzoli, a Grammy-nominated composer, made history in 2018 when she became one of the two first women – along with composer Jeanine Tesori – to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Her works are performed all over the world, including by the Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, pianist Emanuel Ax, LA Opera, New York City Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, and many others.
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On an intriguing disc of finely-played sonatas, the first ever recording of 18th-century French composer Hélène de Montgeroultâs A minor Sonata is a highlight
Finely judged ⦠violinist Sophie Rosa and pianist Ian Buckle.
Finely judged ⦠violinist Sophie Rosa and pianist Ian Buckle.
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When men wrote the accepted history of classical music, some important women were left out. In the case of Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836), whose Sonata in A minor Op 2 No 3 gets its first recording on this intriguing new disc from violinist Sophie Rosa and pianist Ian Buckle, the omission is especially shameless: elements in the piano music of Chopin and Schumann that have long been taken as evidence of those composersâ originality can be found in the studies that make up Montgeroultâs Complete Method for Teaching Fortepiano â a collection they probably encountered as students, written by a contemporary of the
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