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German-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876-1962)
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2024-04-05 13:35:38
LEBRECHT LISTENS | David Robert Coleman & The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Reveal The Charms Of Walter Kaufmann
This release of the music of Walter Kaufmann offers an array of civilised music that sits easily on the ear for an hour, never fully arresting the head or the heart.
2024-04-03 06:35:00
A wondrous snapshot of British singing: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music - exploring the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance; Isobel Baillie, Elise Suddaby, Eva Turner, Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Mary Jarrod, Walter Widdop, Parry Jones, Frank Titterson, Heddle Nash, Roy Henderson, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, Norman Allin, Keith Falkner; Albion RecordsReviewed 2 April 2024A remastering of the iconic 1938 recording along with a solo track from each of the sixteen soloists (plus one extra) providing a wondrous snapshot of British singing in the 1930sRalph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music has become rightly become iconic and on this disc from Albion Records the original 1938 recording is explored from a different angle. We hear that original recording with Isobel Baillie, Elise Suddaby, Eva Turner, Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Mary Jarrod, Walter Widdop, Parry Jones, Frank Titterson, Heddle Nash, Roy Henderson, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, and Norman Allin conducted by Sir […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-28 23:24:03
[…] on the piano, reading from the orchestral score, and with someone else’s arrangement of the piano part for accompanying singers in the finale. Mark DeVoto, musicologist and composer, is an expert on the music of Alban Berg, Debussy, and other early 20th-century composers. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton (Ph.D., 1967), he has published on many music subjects, and edited the revised fourth (1978) and fifth (1987) editions of Harmony by his teacher Walter Piston. The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-03-25 03:30:00
Dvořák: Cello Concerto et al. (CD Review)
by Karl NehringCello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191; Klid (Silent Woods), Op. 68, B 182; Rondo in G minor, Op. 94, B. 181; Romance in F minor, Op. 11B. 39; Mazurek in E minor, Op. 49, B. 90. Zara Nelsova, cello; Ruggiero Ricci, violin; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Walter Susskind, conductor VOX-NX-3034CDAntonin Dvořák’s Cello Concerto is a work that is dear to many music lovers. It is filled with beautiful melodies that appeal to both the head and the heart, making it one of those pieces that can serve as a wonderful way to introduce those unfamiliar with classical music into its spellbinding realm. When I received this recording for review, I tried to remember which recording if the work I had first acquired back in the mid-1970s when I began to become seriously interested in classical music, but drew a blank. However, I vividly remember hearing the work in concert. […]
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