GRAMMY-nominated artist, a concert violinist since age 4, and an award-winning performer (2017 & 2018 Gold Medal, Global Music Awards), ELMIRA DARVAROVA became the first-ever (and so far only) female concertmaster in the history of the Metropolitan Opera. With the MET Orchestra she toured Europe, Japan and the US, and was heard on the MET’s weekly international radio and TV broadcasts. As MET Opera concertmaster she performed with the greatest conductors of our time, including the legendary Carlos Kleiber. She studied with Yfrah Neaman, Josef Gingold and Henryk Szeryng. Hailed by American Record Guide as a ‘marvelous violinist in the Heifetz tradition’, she can be heard on numerous CDs (including the world-premiere recording of Vernon Duke’s violin concerto with the Vienna Radio Symphony, and a CD with world-premiere recordings of music by René de Castéra, named by MusicWeb International a Record of the Year in 2015). Her album based on Indian Ragas was No. 3 on the BILLBOARD chart.
Many thanks for your comment! The CD will be officially released in just 10 days, on August 25, but you can already pre-order on Amazon at this link (to guarantee the low pre-order price): www.amazon.com/Alfano-String-Quartets-Nos-1-3/dp/B0C8BZY3XH
Maravilhoso!!! Isso enche o coração de vontade de viver, até a respiração precisa ser mais lenta e profunda para sentir a musica entrar na alma!!! Obrigado!!!
Incredible music! Alfano never dissappoints. You know a string quartet is amazing if you can’t believe it’s just a String quartet. Sounds like an opera.
Many thanks for your question! Naxos just notified us that this release (Franco Alfano: The Complete String Quartets, world premiere recordings) is scheduled to be released in August 2023. Many thanks again for your kind comment, and Happy New Year! Elmira Darvarova
The world-premiere of this innovative transcription for horn, violin and piano was performed during the 2019 NEW YORK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL at CARNEGIE HALL, by the eminent internationally-renowned artists: Elmira Darvarova, (Grammy-nominated, twice a gold medalist at Global Music Awards, and a former concertmaster of The Metropolitan Opera), Howard Wall (legendary long-time hornist of The New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra) and pianist Thomas Weaver (professor at The Curtis Institute). The artists also recorded this arrangement for their 2020 double-CD album "Astor Piazzolla - Genius of Tango", which was highly praised in the press.
The world-premiere of this innovative transcription for horn, violin and piano was performed during the 2019 NEW YORK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL at CARNEGIE HALL, by the eminent internationally-renowned artists: Elmira Darvarova, (Grammy-nominated, twice a gold medalist at Global Music Awards, and a former concertmaster of The Metropolitan Opera), Howard Wall (legendary long-time hornist of The New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra) and pianist Thomas Weaver (professor at The Curtis Institute). The artists also recorded this arrangement for their 2020 double-CD album "Astor Piazzolla - Genius of Tango", which was highly praised in the press.
The world-premiere of this innovative transcription for horn, violin and piano was performed during the 2019 NEW YORK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL at CARNEGIE HALL, by the eminent internationally-renowned artists: Elmira Darvarova, (Grammy-nominated, twice a gold medalist at Global Music Awards, and a former concertmaster of The Metropolitan Opera), Howard Wall (legendary long-time hornist of The New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra) and pianist Thomas Weaver (professor at The Curtis Institute). The artists also recorded this arrangement for their 2020 double-CD album "Astor Piazzolla - Genius of Tango", which was highly praised in the press.
The world-premiere of this innovative transcription for horn, violin and piano was performed during the 2019 NEW YORK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL at CARNEGIE HALL, by the eminent internationally-renowned artists: Elmira Darvarova, (Grammy-nominated, twice a gold medalist at Global Music Awards, and a former concertmaster of The Metropolitan Opera), Howard Wall (legendary long-time hornist of The New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra) and pianist Thomas Weaver (professor at The Curtis Institute). The artists also recorded this arrangement for their 2020 double-CD album "Astor Piazzolla - Genius of Tango", which was highly praised in the press.
The world-premiere of this innovative transcription for horn, violin and piano was performed during the 2019 NEW YORK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL at CARNEGIE HALL, by the eminent internationally-renowned artists: Elmira Darvarova, (Grammy-nominated, twice a gold medalist at Global Music Awards, and a former concertmaster of The Metropolitan Opera), Howard Wall (legendary long-time hornist of The New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra) and pianist Thomas Weaver (professor at The Curtis Institute). The artists also recorded this arrangement for their 2020 double-CD album "Astor Piazzolla - Genius of Tango", which was highly praised in the press.
Le Grand Tango, written in 1982, was dedicated by Piazzolla to the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who, unfortunately, had never heard of Piazzolla, and neglected to look at the piece for eight years, keeping it stashed in a drawer, as he himself confessed later in interviews. Meanwhile, Piazzolla met in 1987 the American cellist Carter Brey, and impressed with his great talent, sent him the score of Le Grand Tango. Brey gave the world-premiere performance of the work in 1988. Rostropovich finally opened the score of Le Grand Tango in 1990 and traveled to Buenos Aires for a meeting with the composer and guidance on how to interpret the piece. Rostropovich performed Le Grand Tango in 1990 (two years after Carter Brey presented the world premiere) and recorded it in 1996. One of Piazzolla’s most sophisticated and elegant works, Le Grand Tango has been hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as one of “his favorite pieces of music”, with “inextricable rhythmic sense... total freedom, passion, ecstasy”. The performers in this RU-vid video: Elmira Darvarova (Grammy-nominated violinist and former Metropolitan Opera concertmaster), Howard Wall (long-time hornist with The New York Philharmonic and with The Philadelphia Orchestra) and pianist Thomas Weaver (professor at The Curtis Institute) presented at Carnegie Hall the world-premiere performance of their innovative Le Grand Tango arrangement for violin, horn & piano, during the 2019 NEW YORK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL. They have also recorded it for their double-CD album “ASTOR PIAZZOLLA - GENIUS OF TANGO”, which was highly-praised in the press.
El solo de bandoneon es inmortal! Y en el solo de violin que le sigue la violinista, magnífica, sube los talones como si quisiera ascender con la música!!! Todo genial!!!
I had listen this earlier too .....from the same album. The composition and the style played by you is great. It’s a feeling of listening music-East meet west
THIS CD WAS HIGHLY PRAISED by prestigious publications, including GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE: "...ultra-impassioned, vividly detailed performances". The NEW YORK PIANO QUARTET gave the American premiere of the "Rhapsodie" by Joseph Marx (Klavierquartett in Form einer Rhapsodie)
