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51 reactions | For their debut at the Prague Spring International Music Festival, Les Siècles and Bertrand Chamayou celebrate the bicentennial of the Franco-Belgian composer César Franck. Performing on a McNulty 1860 French piano, Bertrand Chamayou puts on a rare show, tackling both celebrated and controversial works in a singular style only he can produce. | Qwest TV | Facebook

21K views · 768 reactions | Take a look at the dashing 28-year-old Leonard Bernstein representing the U.S. at the 1947 Prague Spring Festival – possibly the earliest existant film of the maestro, in the documentary 'Leonard Bernstein, The Gift of Music', narrated by the legendary Lauren Bacall. https://bit.ly/3LdgItl | medici.tv | Facebook

The dramatic development of the first movement of the Schumann concerto, here in a rehearsal at the Prague Spring Festival Festival Pražské jaro / Prague Spring Festival in 2021… This is a really pivotal moment in the piece - if drama does not occur here, the whole thing falls flat. Schumann is a master dramatist, and he gives us so many tender and singing moments throughout the movement. But to bring them out, they rely on contrast and intensity. This is a quality that I discuss a lot with livi