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2024-01-26 17:49:39
Andrew Litton is Music Director of the New York City Ballet. He is also Conductor Laureate of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and was previously Music Director Laureate of Norway’s Bergen Philharmonic....
2023-12-08 05:00:00
A Mixed Bag of Orchestral Works (Andsnes, Handley, Janssons, Loughran, Panula, Westerberg, Wordsworth et al)
[…] # [6'22]Peter Donohoe- piano* & xylophone#, Anthony Goldstone- piano^, Royal Northern College of Music Orchestra conducted by Andrew Penny~Naxos 8.557291 [recorded December 2003; issued 2005][digital download; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]Recording venue: Brown Shipley Concert Hall, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UKRecording engineer and Producer: Tim HandleySergei Prokofiev:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No.3 in C major, op.26 [29'11]04 - 07 Symphony No.7 in C-sharp minor, op.131 (with original ending) [32'02]Leif Ove Andsnes- piano, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ole Kristian RuudSimax PSC 1060 [recorded June 1989 and January 1990; CD issued 1990][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, lo-res booklet sourced from internet] Recording venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway.Recording engineer: Arne Akselberg; Producer: James BurnettAllan Pettersson:01 - 02 Concerto No.1 for Strings (1949-50) * [21'06]03 - 11 Symphony No.12 'The Dead in the Square' (1974) ^ [54'09]Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stig Westerberg *; Uppsala University Chamber […]
2023-12-02 12:00:44
Mark Elder, the Bergen Philharmonic and co are powerful advocates for Delius’s epic choral work, while Irish vocal group Resurgam showcase the distinctive brilliance of Weelkes• Frederick Delius’s A Mass of Life (1905), or Eine Messe des Lebens, opens with a choral explosion, only fitting for what turns out to be a battle of the will as expressed by Friedrich Nietzsche in Also sprach Zarathustra. The Bradford-born Delius used passages from the German philosopher he so admired – and who had great influence at the time of the work’s composition – for his humanist cantata for four soloists, double choir and orchestra, premiered at London’s Queen’s Hall in 1909. Many consider this overwhelming work the masterpiece of a composer still, nearly a century after his death, awaiting critical redemption. It doesn’t hold back, which makes others squirm.A new recording, in German, may be the longed-for boost the mass needs. Mark Elder, […]
2023-09-14 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 57 (CD Reviews)
[…] deft touch to the keyboard that brings balance to the proceedings. Between the two sonatas are three standalone pieces – an Allegro, a heartfelt Adagio, and the energetic and playful Variations on “Unser dummer Pöbel meint.” She then closes her recital with the meltingly beautiful Franz Liszt arrangement of Mozart’s Ave verum corpus. As usual, Steinway & Sons has done an excellent job of capturing the sound of the piano. Per Nørgård: Three Nocturnal Movements; Symphony No. 8; Lysning. Peter Herresthal, violin; Jakob Kullberg, cello; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; John Storgårds, conductor BIS-2502 SACD Per Nørgård (b. 1932, pronounced “Per Ner-Gore”) is generally regarded to be one of the most the most important Danish composers since Nielsen. Long ago I had heard some orchestral music of his that I had found intriguing; this memory led me last year to acquire a boxed set of his symphonies, eight in number, which had been released on BIS. I found the set challenging but fascinating […]
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