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Russian futurist composer
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2024-04-15 08:08:00
Energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev, Julius Eastman and more
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Jessica CottisCatalyst: Coleridge-Taylor, Julius Eastman, Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev; National Youth Brass Band and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Tess Jackson, Jessica Cottis; Royal Festival HallReviewed 14 April 2024From Julius Eastman's creative provocation in the Clore Ballroom to the stupendous combined brass band and orchestra in Higgins new piece, an astonishing day of music making full of energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making Under the catch-all title of Catalyst, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain arrived at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 14 April 2024 and filled the building with music. During the afternoon, there was a side-by-side performance with local school children of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade in the Clore Ballroom, as part of the orchestra's outreach programmes. Then before the main concert members of the main concert, members of the orchestra gathered in the Clore Ballroom for […]
2022-08-09 09:07:00
Prom 30: Gavin Higgins' Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra with the Tredegar Band and BBC NOW
Prom 30, Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra - The Tredegar Band, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan BancroftBBC Proms (Photo BBC/Mark Allan)Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; The Tredegar Band, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft; BBC Proms at the Royal Albert HallReviewed 8 August 2022 (★★★★½)From Higgins' remarkable use of colour and timbre in his new work for brass band and orchestra to the classical underpinnings of Berlioz' Romantic symphony in a fine prom with Welsh forces.For the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' final BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 8 August 2022, Ryan Bancroft conducted them in two large-scale works. First came the world premiere of Gavin Higgins' Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra when the orchestra was joined by the Tredegar Band, then came Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique.Brass bands have not been a regular feature […]
2021-03-08 02:21:01
Talk about one shot wonders! Alexander Mosolov, as an orchestral composer at least, is known for his three-and-a-half minute futurist essay The Iron Foundry. That work dates from 1927, but the composer lived until 1973. After going through the usual Stalinist purges and accusations of formalist heresy, he knuckled under and became a committed Socialist […]
2021-01-17 05:10:00
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Alexander Mosolov Piano Sonatas Nos 1, 2 4 and 5 Turkmenian Nights Nocturnes - Small Pieces Olga Andryushchenko piano Sarkis Barkhudarian Oriental Dances Armenian Dances Piano Pieces Mikael Ayrapetyan piano G. Ustvolskaya Concerto for Piano, Strings and Timpani (original version) V. Silvestrov 4 Postludes - Hymn 2001 G. Kancheli Sio Elisaveta Blumina piano Stuttgart CO Thomas Sanderling Johannes Brahms Horn Trio Clarinet Quintet Paul Klengel Transcriptions Christopher Williams piano Lalo Schifrin Piano Works Tango Mission: Impossible Pampas Jazz Piano Sonata No. 1 Mirian Conti piano Roberto Esposito Piano Concerto "Fantastico" Piano Sonata No. 1 Indigo Mirage Roberto Esposito piano Budapest Scoring SO Eliseo CastrignanoPer Norgard Piano Sonata […]
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