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2022-07-15 04:00:00
Malcolm Arnold: Symphonies No.1, No.2 & No.5, Concerto for pianos (three hands) and Overtures (Malcolm Arnold)
Malcolm Arnold:1.01 - 1.03 Symphony No. 1, op.22^ [39'09]1.04 - 1.06 Concerto for two pianos (three hands), op.104* [14'21]1.07 - 1.08 Solitaire. Ballet - Sarabande & Polka^ [8'41]1.09 Tam o' Shanter. Overture, op.51# [7'55]1.10 - 1.11 English Dances No.3, op.27/3 & No. 5, op.33/1# [5'35]2.01 Beckus the Dandipratt. Comedy Overture, op.5~ [7'23]2.02 - 2.05 Symphony No. 2, op.40~ [25'21]2.06 Peterloo. Overture, op.97* [9'01]2.07 - 2.10 Symphony No. 5, op.74* [33'35]Cyril Smith & Phyllis Sellick- pianos*; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra^, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra*, Philharmonia Orchestra#, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra~ conducted by Malcolm ArnoldEMI 3 82146 2 [recorded September 1955 to April 1979; CD issued 2007][CD rip; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans]Recording venues: Kingsway Hall & Walthamstow Assembly Hall London; de Montfort Hall Leicester and Winter Gardens BournemouthRecording engineers: Douglas Larter, Stuart Eltham, Neville Boyling and unknownProducers: Alan Melville, John Fraser, Brian Culverhouse, David Mottley and unknownThe recordings of Symphony No.2 and […]
2021-12-10 08:33:58
Christmas disc round-up: from Christmas Matins in Bavaria & Nine Lessons & Carols at King's College, Cambridge to festive brass from Canada & the Wexford Carols
[…] looking back, the King's Singers return to their roots, whilst on Alto we can hear the Deller Consort in Medieval carols recorded in the 1950s and 1960s and the St Florian's Boy's Choir celebrates its 950th birthday with archive recordings. It is not all voices, either, with string and brass discs, plus the Harrison & Harrison organ at Belfast Cathedral Santa Nox: Christmas Matins from BavariaThe Seminarians of Saint Peter WigratzbadDe Montfort Music A disc of Gregorian chant sung by a community of young seminarians, reconstructing Christmas matins. The disc mixes plainchant with early polyphony by Morales and Hassler, plus more romantic later composers, Oreste Ravanello (1871-1938) and Raffaele Casimiri (1900-1943), ending with Silent Night. Sung by seminarian who would routinely take part in this sort of service, the performances have a sense of reality and meaning, allied to beauty of tone and flexibility of […]
2021-11-11 04:00:00
Verdi: Les Vepres Siciliennes (Mario Rossi)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Les Vêpres Siciliennes (original French 'Paris Opera' version performed in 1855 and later performed in Italian from 1861 as I Vespri Siciliani) Guy de Montfort, Neilson Taylor (bar); Duchesse Hélène, Jaqueline Brumaire (sop); Henri, Jean Bonhomme (ten); Jean Procida, Ayhan Baran (bass); Béthune, Stafford Dean (bass) BBC Chorus & BBC Concert Orchestra, Mario Rossi (conductor) Ballet music conducted by Ashley Lawrence Recorded on 10 May 1969 at the Camden Theatre London before a specially invited audience for the BBC. First broadcast on 15 February 1970
2020-04-20 07:52:48
I need a subject that is grandiose, impassioned & original: the influence of Meyerbeer & French Grand Opera on the operas of Verdi
[…] to the young whipper-snapper, and Verdi was unable to get the changes to the libretto that he wanted and the result is that the opera suffered, Act Five in particular lacks the sort of dramatic cohesion we expect from a Verdi opera.But the work shows Verdi clearly working in the French Grand Opera genre, so that the characters are involved in a multifaceted conflict between public and private (embodied by the characters of Guy de Montfort and Henri, father and son yet on opposite sides). This is something new in Verdi’s operas, and something that he would return to in his later operas. Don Carlos By the mid-1860s, Meyerbeer was dead, Wagner’s Tannhäuser had been a fiasco in 1861 (withdrawn after three performances), and the Paris Opera needed another big foreign name, and Verdi reluctantly agreed to write something for Paris. The Paris Opera needed an opera to present during […]
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