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2021-03-27 16:47:51
The new album by Ocelot – pianist Cat Toren, saxophonist Yuma Uesaka and drummer Colin Hinton – is streaming at Bandcamp. For the most part, this beast spends its time stalking its prey, not flexing its claws. The music is on the minimal side; much of it is still and sometimes rapturous, and when it […]
2020-09-03 07:34:24
An eight-hour solo piano masterpiece: Sorabji's 'Sequentia cyclica' receives its premiere performance
[…] modernism). Powell has a history with Sorabji's music, he gave the first London performance of Opus Clavicembalisticum in 2003 and has given performances of it since (in 2004, 2005, and a tour in 2017). In fact, he first came across Sorabji whilst a teenager and, like many people, first heard the music in Yonty Solomon's performances (Solomon was the first person to be given permission to perform Opus Clavicembalisticum after the ban). Contact with Alistair Hinton, friend of Sorabji and founder of the Sorabji Archive, led to Powell exploring the composer's work. Having spent some time on Opus Clavicembalisticum, Powell arranged for the mammoth manuscript version of Sequentia cyclica to be typeset and performed part of it at an informal concert in 2008, then the remaining part in 2010, and finally after a private performance, gave the world premiere of the work in June 2010. Since then, he has given […]
2020-01-27 15:19:26
[…] and the following year took part in the Second Tchaikovsky Competition, sharing the First Prize with Vladimir Ashkenazy. Back then winning the Tchaikovsky was very significant, and Ogdon was acknowledged both by the public and the critics as one of the brightest stars of his generation. He extensively performed, both in the UK and internationally, and made numerous recordings. Ogdon had a phenomenal technique, prodigious memory and deep understanding of the musical material. As Alistair Hinton wrote in the Grove Dictionary, “A widely read man of profound intellect who never took any repertory for granted, he often wrote copious notes about pieces; he even arrived at one recording session clutching his substantial essay on Chopin's G minor Ballade.” Ogdon made several unusual recordings, for example a rarely played Fantasia contrappuntistica by Ferriccio Busoni and, later in his life, the enormous, four-and-a-half hour long Opus clavicembalisticum by Sorabji. In 1973 he […]
2018-11-01 00:00:00
Puccini MANON LESCAUT - Decca HD remastering
Giacomo PucciniMANON LESCAUTRenata Tebaldi, Mario del MonacoMario Boriello, Fernando CorenaPiero de PalmaOrchestra e Coro dell' Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Romadir : Francesco Molinari-PradelliOriginal stereo recording - Roma, August 1954Decca Analog Golden Age Volume One Blu-Ray audio [P] 2016 High resolution audio files (24 bit/192 kHz) prepared from the original master tapes at Abbey Road Studios Digital remaster at Universal Music MexicoFLAC files, scans, no libretto "... The sheer loveliness of tone with which Renata Tebaldi sings the title role is such as to set her apart from competitors... The line of her singing is supple and the voice itself is a marvelous instrument...James Hinton Jr., High Fidelity
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