May 2025 Newsletter

Watch and listen to our May 2025 video newsletter - The performing artist as co-creator

Classical Music Daily publishes a newsletter, usually on the first day of each month. Here is our May 2025 newsletter, No 193, Music and the Visual World, which takes the form of an online discussion, led by John Dante Prevedini, which took place and was recorded on 23 April 2025. The running time is sixty-nine minutes.

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The contributors to the live discussion were Béla Hartmann, David Arditti, Halida Dinova, John Dante Prevedini (chairman), Stephen Francis Vasta and Keith Bramich.

The discussion included many different aspects of the interaction between performers, composers and other creators. This subject was suggested after our last online meeting in December by Yekaterina Lebedeva, who has also recorded a contribution to this discussion.

John's discussion questions were as follows:

1. What is a 'work' in the Western classical tradition?

2. How much interpretive freedom does a performer have before a work loses its identity?

3. How does the composer-performer relationship differ in this genre from in other genres (like jazz or pop)?

4. How do techniques such as aleatory composition affect the balance between composer and performer?

You're welcome to add your thoughts to the discussion, via our contact page. If you indicate that your message is for publication, we'll consider adding it to this page.

These links below aim to complement the contents of the newsletter. You can use them to discover more about those taking part and some of the subjects, organisations and individuals mentioned.

ALFRED SCHNITTKE (CMD)

ALEATORIC MUSIC (CMD)

AUSTRIA (CMD)

BAROQUE MUSIC (CMD)

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (CMD)

BÉLA HARTMANN (CMD)

BEN NOBUTO (COMPOSER/PIANIST/PRODUCER'S WEBSITE)

BEN NOBUTO: HALLELUJAH SIM (YOUTUBE)

DAVE BRUBECK: TAKE FIVE (YOUTUBE)

DAVID ARDITTI (CMD)

DAVID BRUCE (YOUTUBE CHANNEL)

DENMARK (CMD)

EDVARD GRIEG (CMD)

EDWARD ELGAR (CMD)

ERNEST ANSERMET (CMD)

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (CMD)

FINLAND (CMD)

FRYDERYCK CHOPIN (CMD)

GERMANY (CMD)

GLENN GOULD (CMD)

GUSTAV MAHLER (CMD)

HALIDA DINOVA (PIANIST'S WEBSITE)

HALIDA DINOVA (CMD)

HARROW SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL (FESTIVAL WEBSITE)

HERBERT VON KARAJAN (CMD)

IGOR STRAVINSKY (CMD)

ISRAEL (CMD)

JACQUES LOUSSIER TRIO - J S BACH BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO 3: ALLEGRO (YOUTUBE)

JAMES GALWAY (MUSICIAN'S WEBSITE)

JAPAN (CMD)

JAZZ (CMD)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (CMD)

JOHANNES BRAHMS (CMD)

JOHANNES BRAHMS: PIANO CONCERTO WITH GLENN GOULD AND LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S SPEECH (YOUTUBE)

JOHN DANTE PREVEDINI (COMPOSER'S WEBSITE)

JOHN DANTE PREVEDINI (CMD)

JON BATISTE AND BEETHOVEN BLUES (COMPOSER'S WEBSITE)

JON BATISTE: FÜR ELISE (YOUTUBE)

KEITH BRAMICH (CMD)

LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CMD)

LONDON UK (CMD)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (CMD)

LYDIA GOEHR (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)

MAO FUJITA (MUSICIAN'S WEBSITE)

MIKE MOWER (MUSICIAN'S WEBSITE)

MIKE MOWER: SONATA LATINO AT NEW LIGHTS: FUSIONS (TRINITY LABAN WEBSITE)

MIKE MOWER: SONATA LATINO - FLUTE AND PIANO VERSION (YOUTUBE)

MIKE MOWER: SONATA LATINO - JAZZ BAND VERSION (YOUTUBE)

MILES DAVIS (MUSICIAN'S WEBSITE)

MODEST MUSORGSKY (CMD)

MOZART/GRIEG PIANO SONATA NO 14 ARRANGED FOR TWO PIANOS (YOUTUBE)

NORWAY (CMD)

POPULAR MUSIC (CMD)

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC (CMD)

RUSSIA (CMD)

RUSTEM HAYROUDINOFF (PIANIST'S WEBSITE)

RUSTEM HAYROUDINOFF'S 'BACH AND SONS' CD (ONYX CLASSICS)

RUSTEM HAYROUDINOFF'S CD RELEASE CONCERT (RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY)

SERGEI RACHMANINOV (CMD)

STEPHEN FRANCIS VASTA (CMD)

SYLVANO BUSSOTTI (CMD)

TARMO PELTOKOSKI (DORN MUSIC)

TARMO PELTOKOSKI'S MOZART LINZ SYMPHONY (YOUTUBE)

TRINITY LABAN CONSERVATOIRE OF MUSIC AND DANCE (CMD)

UNITED KINGDOM (CMD)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (CMD)

WILLEM MENGELBERG (CMD)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (CMD)

YEKATERINA LEBEDEVA (PIANIST'S WEBSITE)

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Posted 1 May 2025 by John Dante Prevedini

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