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2021-03-02 00:30:00
Elgar: String Quartet & Piano Quintet - Mistry Quartet & David Owen Norris
Edward Elgar:01. - 03. String Quartet in E minor, op.83 [25'01]04. - 06. Piano Quintet in A minor, op.84* [34'42]David Owen Norris- piano*. Mistry Quartet [Jagdish Mistry & Charles Sewar- violins, Caroline Henbest- viola, Susan Monks- cello] Argo 433 312-2 [recorded October 1990 & January 1991*; CD released 1992] [digital download; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans] Recording venue: All Saints Church, East Finchley, LondonRecording engineer: Simon Eaden; Producer: Chris Hazell For me, although from my early teens Elgar has been a favourite composer, his Piano Quintet was one of those works which you don't 'get' for years until a new release comes along and you suddenly understand it and realise what you have been missing all those years. That recording, issued in 1997, was by the Maggini Quartet and Peter Donohoe for Naxos. Now going back I find this recording by the Mistry Quartet and David Owen Norris equally […]
2019-12-06 00:00:00
Elgar - Second Symphony x 3
Three performances of Edward Elgar's Second Symphony plus a couple of extras:1. Gennady Rozhdestvensky with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1980.2. Edward Downes with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in 1993.3. Mark Elder with the Halle Orchestra in 2003.(BBC broadcast and digital downloads, FLACs, cover and inlay scans for the Downes and Elder, plus booklet for the Elder)01. Continuity announcer - Introduction to the Symphony [2'45]02. - 05. Edward Elgar - Symphony No. 2 in E-flat major, op.63 [58'50]BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.BBC recording at Corn Exchange, Bedford, on 20 December 1980. Broadcast on 2 February 1981, flacs. Recording kindly provided by friend Barty 01. - 04. Edward Elgar - Symphony No. 2 in E-flat major, op.63 [56'03]BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Downes.Naxos 8.550635 (issued 1994)Recorded at New Broadcasting House, Manchester in March 1993. Recording engineer: Don Hartridge; Producer: Brian Pidgeon. Digital download, flacs; cover and inlay scans […]
2017-05-18 01:30:00
Edward Elgar 01. - 15. Variations on an Original Theme, op.36 'Enigma' [30'53] 16. Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op.47 [14'35] 17. - 19. Serenade for Strings in E minor, op.20 [11'09] London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley EMI Eloquence CD-EMX9503 (recorded January 1983; this CD release 1987) (flac and scans) Recording venue: Watford Town Hall Recording engineer: Mike "Mr Bear" Clements; Producer: Barry McCann Here's yet another fine performance of the Enigma Variations. Perhaps not at the very top of the list but quite close and Handley's love of the music comes through strongly. The Serenade for Strings is also very fine and beautifully flowing - my current favourite recording of the work. Unlike with the Enigma, this even overtakes Malcolm Sargents's recording with the Philharmonia from 1959. The Introduction and Allegro is also excellent if not quite on the level […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-12-06 11:33:51
Meet the London musicians who go jamming in the Calais Jungle
The British and French governments regard the refugee camps at Calais as an unsanitary nuisance at best, even as a potential hazard. Some London musicians look to them as an opportunity for expanding their experience of the great variety of world music. The initiative is the brainchild of Vanessa Lucas-Smith , cellist of the Allegri Quartet. Vanessa says: ‘I’ve been lucky enough to play in The Wigmore Hall and record in Abbey Road Studios both of which I thought were beyond my dreams as a kid. The Jungle refugee camp and the makeshift studio we set up (complete with deafening generator) definitely wasn’t on my bucket list, but how it has changed me. Honoured and bettered to have shared the stage with the talented musicians there.’ Watch. Buy. Give. We are an eclectic group of musicians from London who found extraordinary musicians to jam with, write, rehearse, perform and […]