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VIDEO PODCAST: Discussion about Bernard Haitink (1929-2021), Salzburg, Roger Doyle's Finnegans Wake Project, the English Symphony Orchestra, the Chopin Competition Warsaw, Los Angeles Opera and other subjects in our hour-long November 2021 video.
VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day the world woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
Romanian-born pianist and teacher Robert Weisz was born to Hungarian parents at Arad on 25 June 1925. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest with Annie Fischer and Béla Böszörmenyi-Nagy, at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dinu Lipatti (winning first prize in the Geneva International Competition for Musical Performers), in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and in London with Myra Hess. He took Swiss nationality in 1963 and Canadian in 1975, settling in Quebec. He formed a two-piano team with Jeanne Landry and made several recordings with cellist Paul Tortelier. His pupils included Jacinthe Couture and Michel Franck. Weisz died on 11 June 2013, aged eighty-seven.