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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-23 21:54:31
A Final Flourish with Cappella Clausura
[…] lack of attention given to the music of women composers and formed an ensemble and an organization to fill this need. I have been a part of it since 2006. I (Martha Hatch Bancroft) met Amelia when she came to my church, Parish of the Messiah, in Newton, in 2006, seeking residency for her new group. She had just formed Cappella Clausura, and invited me as Warden of my church, to come hear them in Forsyth Chapel at Forest Hills Cemetery. When I experienced the sound of 12 women singing music from the early Baroque and of Hildegard von Bingen, I was speechless. I had never heard anything like it before. That was the beginning of a very long, rich and deep friendship, which included my joining the board of directors, and being one of their most fervent champions. In addition to making music, Amelia created theatrical performances where her […]
2024-02-15 07:23:00
A Lionel Tertis Celebration: Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu; Harmonia Mundi
A Lionel Tertis Celebration - York Bowen, Rebecca Clarke, Vaughan Williams, Lionel Tertis, Frank Bridge, Brahms, Schumann, Faure, William Wolstenholme, Kreisler, W.H. Reed, Eric Coates, Cecil Forsyth, John Ireland, and Mendelssohn; Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu; Harmonia Mundi12 February 2024Timothy Ridout's warm tribute to Lionel Tertis moves between powerful dramatic utterance and more domesticated, salon pieces, with every piece in a finely judged performanceInspired by the supple violin playing of Fritz Kreisler, though entirely self-taught, Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) made it his mission to bring the viola back to the foreground in classical music. In order to create a repertoire, Tertis adapted existing material (famously creating a viola concerto from Elgar's Cello Concerto, see my review of Ridout's 2023 recording of this), as well as badgering composers for pieces. Like other such figures (his friend the cellist Pablo Casals, and the guitarist Segovia), Tertis' taste in music was relatively conservative and famously […]
2023-12-01 00:00:00
Chamber Music for Strings (Coull, Dante, Duke, Goldner, Jean Sibelius, New Zealand String Quartets & Ironwood)
[…] double bass, Neal Peres Da Costa- piano - 1869 Érard concert grand)ABC Classics 481 9887 [recorded December 2019 & February 2020; issued 2020][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Eugene Goossens Hall, Ultimo Centre, Sydney, AustraliaRecording engineer & Producer: Thomas GrubbJohannes Brahms on period instruments:1.01 - 1.04 Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, op.25 [41'06]2.01 - 2.04 Piano Quintet in F minor, op.34 * [43'12]Ironwood (Rachael Beesley * & Robin Wilson- violins, Nicola Forsyth- viola, Daniel Yeadon- cello, Neal Peres Da Costa- piano - replica 1868 Streicher pianoforte)ABC Classics 481 4686 [recorded November 2016; issued 2017][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans; no booklet]Recording venue: Eugene Goossens Hall, Ultimo Centre, Sydney, AustraliaRecording engineer & Producer: Virginia ReadAntonin Dvořák:01 - 03 Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, op.5 B.28 [26'53]04 - 07 Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, op.81 B.155 [39'21]Piers Lane- piano, Goldner […]
All the conducting master class
2023-06-07 15:56:01
10:30am – 5:30pm Conducting Masterclasswith Dominic Grier Sunday 18th June 2023 10:30am – 5:30pm at The Royal Academy of Music (Forsyth Room), Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5HT Repertoire BERLIOZ: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 Highly-regarded conductor Dominic Grier (Tutor in Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music and Director of the George Hurst Foundation) leads this […]
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