For this week’s Sunday Spotlight we start with a video of cellist and composer Zoë Keating. She does some super cool stuff with looping – recording herself as she plays and then playing back a section as she moves on to play something new – in a sense creating a whole orchestra on her own… […]
Sunday Spotlight for Feb. 8th Read More »
In today’s Sunday Spotlight we have: “I never practise scales” says violinist James Ehnes. (I’m certainly always a proponent of creating exercises from the music on which you are working…) Valentina Lisitsa is an fantastic pianist (who credits YouTube for a lot of her success). Any or all of the videos on her channel are
Sunday Spotlight for Feb. 1st, 2015 Read More »
Hi all, One of my goals for 2015 is to do more creation – including writing more on this blog and generally producing more content for it… So I’m bringing back “Sunday Spotlight” – every week I’ll be posting three music related links that I enjoyed or found interesting. This week we have: Can you
Sunday Spotlight returns – Jan. 25th Read More »
Hi everyone! Welcome to this week’s spotlight. A potpourri of music today: First, one my favourite pianists, William Kapell, who died way too young. Here’s his rendition of Liszt’s “Mephisto Waltz” I love Mahler and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – here he is signing “Ging heut Morgen übers Feld” Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is one of my favourite musicians
Sunday Spotlight – Feb. 3, 2013 Read More »
Hi everyone, Time for another spotlight! This week, I’m spotlighting the “Choir” series of documentaries. Featuring choirmaster Gareth Malone, these are delightful and uplifting shows that remind us how wonderful it is to sing, and how we can all sing – it’s not just for professionals ;) If you’re in Canada you can watch a
Sunday Spotlight – Jan. 27, 2013 Read More »
Hi everyone, Time for another spotlight! I’ve mentioned that I have a lot of respect for pianist Sviatoslav Richter, and I thought I’d start this week by spotlight a great starting album to start exploring his playing. iTunes has his ‘Greatest Piano Works‘ for $4.99 (US)… With almost 5 hours of music, it’s a pretty
Sunday Spotlight Jan. 20th, 2013 Read More »
Hi everyone! First up on the spotlight today is the first Harp Tuesday episode of 2013! I did something quite new for this episode – I want to play a virtual duet with you! I recorded both halves of the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria and uploaded them, so that you can, for example, play the tune
Sunday Spotlight (Jan. 13, 2013) Read More »
Happy 2013 everyone! My blog has been pretty quiet, and one of my New Year’s resolutions is to do more writing! I have a number of thoughts on music I want to share, and of course my continuing adventures in learning the violin. For now, though, this is the first of a weekly ‘Sunday Spotlight’