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2024-03-14 15:47:19
Dorothy Howell: Orchestral Works album review – buoyant performances show off Howell’s quicksilver gifts
BBCCO/Miller(Signum)A Keats-inspired tone poem and an evocative still unstaged ballet are among the works finally getting their due in the BBC Concert Orchestra’s new recordingImagine, now, a 21-year-old having a work premiered at the Proms and it gaining such a reception that a repeat performance is immediately shoehorned in for the following week. That happened in 1919 for Birmingham-born
2024-02-16 00:00:00
Some lesser-known 20th century Cello Concertos
[…] May* and June^ 2011; issued 2012][Digital download; flacs. cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venues: RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, Scotland and the Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, UKRecording engineer: Dexter Newman; Producer: Michael PonderBowen, Bush and Brian:1.01 York Bowen: Rhapsody for cello and orchestra, op.74 (c. 1924) [23'51]1.02 - 1.06 Alan Bush: Concert Suite for cello and orchestra, op.37 (1952) [36'27]2.01 - 2.03 Havergal Brian: Concerto for cello and orchestra (1964) [21'43]Raphael Wallfisch- cello, BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Martin YatesDutton Epoch CDLX 7263 [recorded September 2010; issued 2011][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: St-Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, LondonRecording engineer: Dexter Newman; Producer: Michael PonderEdvard Grieg for cello and orchestra:01 - 03 (orch. Joseph Horovitz) Cello Concerto after cello sonata, op.36 (1883/2001) [29'33]04 - 05 (arr. Benjamin Wallfisch) 2 Elegiac Melodies, op.34 [7'35]06 (arr. Benjamin Wallfisch) Peer Gynt. Suite No. 2, op.55 no.4 - Solvieg's Song [4'38]07 […]
2024-01-29 10:42:00
Stanford, Holst and an RVW premiere: the 17th English Music Festival at Dorchester Abbey
Caricature of Stanford by Spy in Vanity Fair, from 1905, three years after the Clarinet ConcertoThe seventeenth English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire from Friday 24 May until Monday 27 May 2024. The festival's opening concert features Martin Yates conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme which includes Stanford's Clarinet Concerto with soloist Michael Collins, Doreen Carwithen's Cotswold Suite, Holst's early Cotswold Symphony and the premiere of a new suite from the music RVW wrote for performances of Shakespeare's Richard II in Stratford in 1912-13.Other events during the weekend include violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist Peter Cartwright in Holst, Bliss, Howells, Farrar and Stanford's Violin Sonata, tenor Brian Thorsett and pianist Richard Masters in Finzi, Ireland, USA-based English composer Frank E Tours (1877-1963) and Arthur Somervell's Maud, the Godwine Choir in a mixed programme including Howells, Havergal Brian and Holst's Hymns from the Rig Veda, plus concerts from the Flutes and Frets Duo, pianists […]
2024-01-24 07:45:00
NMC Recordings celebrates 35 years of supporting composers
Imogen Holst and Colin Matthews in 19842024 sees NMC celebrating its 35th birthday with a release schedule that continues to do what the label was founded to, supporting composers. 2024 will see new debut albums from Freya Waley-Cohen, Tom Coult, Lisa Illean, and Richard Baker, partnership projects with National Youth Choir and Philharmonia, and new collaboration with Drake Music Scotland, the Disabled Artist Network and Tŷ Cerdd.NMC will also be recording a new album of Imogen Holst's previously unreleased works, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers, conducted by Alice Farnham. And on 3 July 2024, NMC joins forces with Spitalfields Festival for a special birthday concert celebrating 35 years of NMC.Composer Colin Matthews founded NMC in 1989 to remedy the almost non-existent representation of living British composers in the recording catalogues of major labels at the time. NMC’s work supporting the rich breadth of compositional talent from Britain and Ireland […]