OBITUARY PICS from LEBRECHT: Elisabeth Soderstrom, Swedish soprano, 7 May 1927 – 20 November 2009

Elisabeth Soderstrom by note stand

Elisabeth Soderstrom plays Melisande

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OBITUARY PICS from LEBRECHT: H. C. ROBBINS LANDON, American Musicologist, 6 March 1926 – 20 November 2009

H. C. Robbins Landon with Collin Matthews (left) and Charles Rosen (centre) in 1997

H. C. Robbins Landon at his home in Southern France

H. C. Landon Robbins in 1997

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Christmas Gifts from Lebrecht: Iconic signed photographs by Don Hunstein

Exclusive signed 5.5″ x 8″ photos by iconic American rock photographer Don Hunstein, printed on archival art paper and priced just £99 each, plus £5.50 p & p in UK (£10 outside the UK).

The photos on offer are:

Bob Dylan at Carnegie Hall, October 1963

Glenn Gould in Canada 1970

Times Square, New York in the rain, 1961 (as used on the cover of Dylan’s autobiography ‘Chronicles’ Vol I)

To order your prints, please email pictures@lebrecht.co.uk or call 020 7625 5341.

Russian Collection Highlights – MUSIC

Lebrecht Music & Arts now offers over 10,000 fine art images from Russian Museums.

The classical music paintings are quite unique: they include portraits of the great Russian composers never published in the UK before: Ippolitov-Ivanov , Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Cui, Dargomyzhsky, Medtner, Khachaturian . Fabulous stage sets for operas such as Stravinsky’s ‘Mavra’, Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Sadko’, Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ , Gounod’s ‘Faust’. Plus drawings and paintings of ballet dancers including work by Edgar Degas.

Portrait of the composer Mily A. Balakirev

Portrait of the composer Sergei Prokofiev

Portrait of the composer César Antonovich Cui

Portrait of the composer Michail Ippolitov-Ivanov

Portrait of the composer Nikolai Medtner

Portrait of the composer Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky

At the philharmonic concert by Samokhvalov, Alexander Nikolayevich

Portrait of the composer Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Portrait of the composer Aram Khachaturian

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CHRISTMAS PICS from LEBRECHT

Now online at Lebrecht, a fantastic selection of seasonal imagery, from Nativity scenes to snowy, winter landscapes and portraits of the popular folk hero, Father Christmas or Saint Nicholas, who graces celebrations across the globe, from the French Noel to the German Weihnachten. To see a selection of charming Xmas-related images, please click on the image below:

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PREVIEW MUSIC PICS from LEBRECHT: LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL, 13-22 November 2009

Now online at Lebrecht, portraits and performance shots of musicians performing at this year’s jazz festival. For a full selection, please search directly on www.lebrecht.co.uk.

Zoe Rahman, British jazz composer and pianist

Sonny Rollins, American tenor saxophonist

Roberto Fonseca, Cuban pianist

John Hegley, English poet and performer

Tomasz Stanko, Polish jazz trumpet player

Chick Corea, American jazz pianist and keyboardist

Stanley Clarke, American jazz guitarist

Madeleine Peyroux, American singer

Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth, British jazz performers

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, American jazz group

Carla Bley, American jazz pianist and composer

Stefano Bollani, Italian jazz pianist

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Lebrecht at Picturehouse, New York, 2009

Lebrecht enjoyed another successful trip to Picturehouse in New York this autumn. As usual, Picturehouse New York provided a fantastic opportunity to present the collection to new picture researchers and chat about developments in the industry. We announced our latest acquisition – a unique collection of over 10,000 fine art images from Russian museums and galleries – marking our diversification into art pictures. The announcement garnered a lot of interest and we hope that this new material marks the start of a great new stage in our ever-expanding collection.

The trip to New York also allowed us to catch up with some of our favourite American clients. We were especially pleased to see our image of Bernard Haitink on proud display outside the Lincoln Center, advertising a recent London Symphony Orchestra performance at the Avery Fisher Hall.

Thanks to everyone who visited our stand and took the time to catch up. We look forward to seeing you again at next year’s Picturehouse.

Lebrecht Music & Arts

Lebrecht Music & Arts

Lebrecht Music & Arts

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Lebrecht November 2009 Newsletter

Art Images at Lebrecht!

Lebrecht now carries a unique collection of over 10,500 images of paintings and photographs from Russian museums.

This outstanding and unusual Russian Collection (search under – Russian collection – at http://www.lebrecht.co.uk) includes paintings and photographs of Russian social history, domestic and religious life, political figures and posters and military scenes, plus over 200 rarely seen European works from the era of Impressionism.

These images complement the thousands of paintings, photographs and Soviet-era political posters already held by Lebrecht from Russian and other European sources. They enhance and expand our core brief of providing the most comprehensive background coverage of music, literature and the creative arts to be found in any single picture source.

In challenging times, Lebrecht Music and Arts is continuing to grow its resources, maintain its specialist staff and provide detailed attention to the search needs of clients, large and small. Watch here for news of further acquisitions.

“Military commissar is a Father and a soul of the troup unit ” by Pyotr Tarasovich Maltsev, 1941

“In the Line of Fire” by Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov – Vodkin,1916

Aha oe feii? (Are You Jealous?) by Gauguin, Paul Eugéne Henri , France, 1892

Merchant’s draughts by Ivan Stepanovich Doshchennikov, c.1840 – 1850.

Throne of the Tsar Boris Godunov by Iranian master, early 17th century

Saint George and the Dragon, Russian icon, Novgorod School, late 14th century

Saint Nicholas, Russian icon, Russia, Yaroslavl School, second half of 17th century

Nana (After Emile Zola novel Nana) by Pyotr Vladimirovich Williams, 1934

“The Music” by Antonina Leonardovna Rzhevskaya, c.1902 – 1903

“Great Patriotic War. Female-Warriors of the Red Army by Pyotr Adolfovich Otsup, 1941

A Gas Mask , 1930

The Oriental bath. Massage by Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov, 1880.

French music images of the month:

Cesaria Evora, singer from Cape Verde, at the jazz festival in Cussac Fort Médoc, Gironde, (Philippe Roy)

Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Aquitaine outdoor evening concert (Philippe Roy)

November anniversaries:

Friedrich Schiller, German poet’s 250th birth anniversary on 10th November 1759

Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer's 50th death anniversary on the on 17th November 1959

Albert Ketelbey, British composer’s 50th death anniversary on 26th November, 1959

Albert Camus, French author, 50th death anniversary on 4th January 1960

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Gustav Mahler birth anniversary 7th July 2010

Lebrecht music and arts picture library has extensive coverage of Gustav Mahler, the Austrian composer and conductor, whose 150th birth anniversary will be celebrated on 7th July 2010. From birth to death we carry images of Mahler with his sister Justine, his grandparents, his matriculation papers, his friends such as Natalie Bauer-Lechner, Viktor Adler, Oskar Fried; the cities and venues where he worked as conductor and director – Prague, Leipzig, Budapest, Vienna, New York; programmes at world famous venues such as the Vienna Opera House plus photos of Mahler himself in his office, and the Carnegie Hall in New York; famous Mahler singers such as Theodor Recihmann, Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, Eric Schmedes, Selma Kurz; plus his wife Alma Schindler, stepdaughter of the Viennese painter Carl Moll; scores from his great works such as ‘Kindertotenlieder’, Symphony No 1, 2, 6, 9 and 10, the Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony; Mahler’s composing huts at Maiernigg, Toblach, Steinbach, and the famous Kokoshka painting of Alma Mahler as a doll: historical context images of important people in Vienna in Mahler’s time and his favourite haunts.

Gustav Mahler in 1892