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Our Favorite Christmas Recordings (CD Reviews)
One of the most delightful dimensions of Christmas is the music that attends the season. From the most devotional church music to familiar carols to popular Christmas songs, music fills the air at this time of the year. At this most wonderful time of the year, we at Classical Candor thought it might be fun to share a few of our favorite Christmas recordings. Karl Nehring’s Christmas Favorites: Essential Carols: The Very Best of King’s College Choir, Cambridge. (CD1) Hark! the Herald Angels Sing; The First Nowell; While Shepherds Watched; I Saw Three Ships; Ding Dong! Merrily on High; King Jesus Has a Garden; In Dulci Jubilo; Unto Us Is Born a Son; O Come, All Ye Faithful; Away in a Manger; O Little Town of Bethlehem; The Holly and the Ivy; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen; See Amid the Winter's Snow; Past Three O' Clock; Invitatory; Adam Lay Ybounden; Gabriel's Message; (CD2) Once in Royal David's City; Sussex Carol; Rocking; Rejoice and Be Merry; The Cherry Tree Carol; The Three Kings; As with Gladness Men of Old; A […]
2022-08-25 16:11:00
Grosses Festspielhaus Bartók: Out of Doors, Sz 81 Schumann: Waldszenen, op.82 Wagner, arr. Zoltán Kocsis: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act I Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178 Igor Levit (piano)Image: SF / Marco BorrelliFor this Salzburg Festival recital, Igor Levit offered a programme of piano music—and, in one case, orchestral music transcribed for the piano—rich in connections explicit and implicit, and beautifully balanced too. Programming is in many ways an art in itself, yet not of course quite in itself: the music needs to be performed at least as compellingly as it has been assembled. There was little problem in that respect here, given performances that never took the works in question for granted, always looked—and listened—afresh. Bartók’s Out of Doors suite was a welcome choice to open. The drums and pipes of the opening piece gave neither pianist nor audience time to adjust. Poundingly percussive from […]
2022-06-02 00:10:35
Alvin Singleton Alvin Singleton forwards this review of his new recording by the Momenta Quartet, "Four String Quartets": This essential new recording features New York’s Momenta Quartet surveying each of Alvin Singleton’s string quartets, which span 42 years—1967 to 2019, the last of which this ensemble commissioned for its 15th anniversary. Each of these neatly contained works eschew the sort of conventional structures works for this configuration usually employ. Instead, they tell beautifully unfolding stories, like a sonic road trip past quietly evolving landscapes. The earliest piece, “String Quartet No. 1,” is unsurprisingly the most traditional-sounding entry, with elaborately detailed contrapuntal scaffolding containing elegant passages that toggle between bittersweet romanticism, knotty pizzicato, and slaloming lines of emotional ambiguity. “Secret Desire to Be Black,” commissioned by the Kronos Quartet in 1988, cycles through repeating sequences marked by subtly […]
2022-05-10 08:11:40
Denys Darlow founded the Tilford Bach Festival to present the music of his favourite composer in his own parish church and 70 years later it is still going strong
All Saints' Church, Tilford, home of the Tilford Bach Festival The Tilford Bach Festival is 70 this year and the festival is celebrating with a weekend of events from 10 to 12 June 2022. The festival was founded in 1952 by Denys Darlow, who was the organist at All Saints’ Parish church, Tilford, a village in the west of Surrey (famous former residents include Arthur Conan Doyle and Lloyd George). Darlow's personal aim was that all performances should be fully professional and of the highest quality so as to entice soloists of international renown to come to a small church in a tiny village situated several dark, Winding miles from the nearest railway station. By 1955, the BBC were broadcasting from the festival. In 1973, Darlow (then 73 years old) decided to share the direction of the festival, but he would not completely hang up his baton until 2002. […]
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