@carolinefrmus
Award-winning author of books on Boulez, Satie, Boulanger and Dutilleux/ Visiting Reader in French Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire/ Contributing writer at I Care If You Listen/ https://linktr.ee/carolinepotter
Join us on 17 March to welcome the eminent pianist and scholar Roy Howat to talk about a new critical edition of Chopin's Etudes.
www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...
Figured bass in bar 1 (from top down): 54327. YAY
Jean-FΓ©ry Rebel, 'Le Cahos' from Les ElΓ©mens (1737) - the best figured bass, bar none
Fascinating paper on the luthΓ©al by Elisabeth Salvedra - instrument used by #Ravel in Tzigane & Lβenfant et les sortilΓ¨ges. Suggestion that Ravel preferred the fake instrument to the βrealβ cimbalom or harpsichord @royalbirmcons.bsky.social
YAY! Thank you!
Birthday card spotted in Birmingham Foyles. Oh dear
TAILLEFERRE KLAXON #UniversityChallenge
#Ravel First Violin Sonata (Sonate posthume), first performed by Georges Enescu and Ravel in 1897-8 but not published until 1975. Absolutely love this piece: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD6g...
#Tailleferre played by Orchestre Pasdeloup in Paris on 11 April - her Harp Concertino and a piece I've not heard, L'Homme notre ami - and I'll be in town at the time! sallegaveau.com/event-pro/pa...
Celebrating International Women's Day with the magnificent Rimes fΓ©minines by Juliette. You're welcome #IWD26 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeR4...
Grumpy animal statues and a bisected horse. Barrage Vauban #Strasbourg, currently being renovated
The ridiculously picturesque Petite France #Strasbourg
#Liszt got everywhere, including this building in #Strasbourg when he was 12 - his first public concert in France π«π·ππΊπΉ
Loving being back in #Strasbourg where I lived for a year as a student on the fifth floor of this building, 27 rue du DΓ΄me, overlooking the cathedral
Patisserie novelties in Saint-Louis: green apple, French kiss π«π·ππ
#Basel is generally a very polite sort of city, but then there's also this exuberantly bearded figure sticking his tongue out
#Boulez preface to published version of 'Antiphonie' (Third Piano Sonata): 'The devil for me is hidden in a labyrinth'
#Basel looking splendid this late afternoon
Waking up in Saint-Louis (France), heading to Basel (Switzerland) and can see the border from my window. I will never not get excited by crossing a land border on foot
The excellent musical instrument museum in Brussels on their ondes Martenot: www.mim.be/en/collectio...
More KurtΓ‘g: link to my article in CMR
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XAMQ6...
Congratulations! ππΎ
Great to see Marche gaie by Lili #Boulanger performed in London on 4 March @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social @cadoganhall.bsky.social - sorry I can't go. Here's a picture of her: the big furry dog (Fachoun) was hers www.rpo.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
New podcast: talking about #Satie #Vexations with Andrew Brixey-Williams. I liked our conversations about performing the piece (around 16'50" and 22'30"): open.spotify.com/episode/6nyK...
Another person with a 29 February birthday! πΎ
Happy birthday to my nephew and everyone else who was born on 29 February and celebrating this weekend
Good to hear #Tailleferre Concertino for harp on
Radio 3 - the work was premiered in Boston in March 1927 by Marcel Grandjany conducted by Koussevitzky @bostonsymphony.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCo4...
Amy Beach is Composer of the Week on Radio 3 - I don't like everything I've heard but her Piano Quintet is, to use the technical term, an absolute banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A2y...
(Baudelaire, annotation aux Γ©preuves des Fleurs du mal)
Amateur pianist corner: #Scarlatti K215. Iβve had Kirkpatrick vol 1 for years but have never played it before! Like it, especially the crunchy chord/WTF is that sequences opening the B section
Farewell to French composer Γliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonateβslowly, endlesslyβlike a tone that never quite fades.