Louis Mander
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Louis Mander
@LouisMander
Composer, Conductor, Opera, Film, Leaf-Tea addict
London Bergabung Temmuz 2013
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A very happy 55th (not so young any more - ha!) to @jeremydenk! How appropriate that you share a birthday with Liberace...Thanks for the MANY memorable rehearsals: 'Can you guys maybe just let the piano through here?' (Shoulders shake). 'Just for kicks?" The fun we have! Haha.
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@tom_mckinney why so many urgent and tense tracks so early! It’s Monday lovely x 😂 @BBCRadio3
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@jeremydenk Sorry for teasing you! I do really want you to play something of my own piano music. I was enjoying your recording of Moz 25 PC yesterday
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I think that Steven and I disagree about this sonata which has some of the silliest developmental passages in all of classical music
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Connie Shih and I are playing the Grieg cello sonata on our current US tour. It's so wonderfully loveable - and yet so often dismissed. Why? It is warm-hearted, sincere, lyrical, and touchingly beautiful. Those who turn their noses up at such music rob themselves of much joy...
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@jeremydenk Ah, you missed my point! This is from Grieg’s own arrangement of Mozart’s G major sonata… the “mash up” keep up, Jeremy 😅
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@LouisMander limpid, harmonically fairly simple, but rhythmically full of interesting interplay and unpredictability, the grace notes, syncopations, the sense of a teasing/flirting style mixed with classical symmetry … for me clearly vastly more inspired?
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@LouisMander It would be fun to have a Mozart vs Grieg development section smack down
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@StevenIsserlis Grieg’s sonata form works are often his most successful; often eclipsed by the fluffy favourites. Except the piano concerto which is the exception. Wow. String quartet in G minor and the 3rd violin sonata as well as the loving cello sonata he composed for his brother x
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Connie Shih and I are playing the Grieg cello sonata on our current US tour. It's so wonderfully loveable - and yet so often dismissed. Why? It is warm-hearted, sincere, lyrical, and touchingly beautiful. Those who turn their noses up at such music rob themselves of much joy...
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Lemony/chocolate chip traybake. The kitchen smells nice.
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"The Twelve days of Christmas" is really not much of a song when you can't hear the words ...
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Sir Clifford Curzon (1907–1982) was a master interpreter of Schubert and a brilliant pianist overall. His joy in performing Schubert’s Moments Musicaux No. 3, D. 780, is palpable. F
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If you're in need of some October oomph, come to St Peter's, Belsize Park this Friday at 7pm for an evening of words, music and wits!
TICKETS £15: zebsoanes.com/events/2024/ma…
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Masters of Wit: an evening celebrating music and wit in the parlour with songs by Arthur Sullivan, Cole Porter and Noel Coward, from @zebsoanes, @willdiggle & @LouisMander. My preview:
planethugill.com/2024/10/master…
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From the premiere in Oslo, my opera adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves with beautiful libretto by @TamsintJones
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I was excited to be mobbed by a group of school kids in Catford just now - until I discovered they thought I was David Attenborough.
Disconcertingly, this has happened to me before. More than once. I suppose I should be flattered - even though Sir David is 22 years my senior.
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Join @ClassicFM presenter @zebsoanes in an evening of song & great wits, with Will Diggle tenor & me on the pianoforte on October 11th 7pm - Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde & more ⭐️
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