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2022-06-18 07:11:59
[…] that he has always loved great melodies that stay in the mind. He also has a love of choral music, and this is one of the types of music he listens to. His first classical work was a Pie Jesu which came to him unbidden. Since then he has written choral music, instrumental music and songs, including the cycle Swansongs – Songs of Remembrance which was recorded by soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and pianist Daniel Grimwood for Signum Classics.His influences include the music of English composers such as Finzi and Bax, perhaps Elgar is rather less of an influence but there is also some Stanford in there. He also names the Californian composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003), particularly a disc recorded by pianist Joanna MacGregor, and adds that he is also a fan of John Adams' music too. He enjoys exploring different tunings, but this is very much for himself as […]
2021-09-08 08:53:43
Scriabin complete: all ten published piano sonatas in one sitting at Puskin House as part of the Bloomsbury Festival
Alexander Scriabin This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915) and in celebration, as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, Pushkin House has arranged an event where all ten of Scriabin's published piano sonatas will be performed by a team of distinguished pianists, Thomas Ang, Daniel Grimwood, Alexander Karpeyev, Dinara Klinton, James Kreiling, Yuri Paterson-Olenich, Maria Razumovskaya, Olga Stezhko and Nafis Umerkulova. On Saturday 23 October 2021 from 3pm to 6pm, they will give us the chance to hear all of the composer's published piano sonatas.Scriabin wrote his sonatas across almost his entire mature compositional life, from 1892-1913, in fact quite a narrow time-span for ten works. His Piano Sonata No. 1 (in fact the third to be written but the first to get an opus number) was his first large-scale masterpiece, an emotionally charged work which he wrote after damaging his right hand after excessive piano playing. […]
2021-08-19 07:48:22
Baroque and Contemporary, plus a focus on Brian Elias: this year's Music@Malling
Resident ensemble Chamber Domaine performing at a previous Music@Malling The music of Brian Elias threads its way through this year's Music@Malling. The fifteen concerts in this year's festival in the Kent town, which runs from 24 September to 3 October 2021, will feature the premiere of Elias' Capriccio for Bassoon and Strings performed by resident ensemble Chamber Domaine, conducted by the festival's artistic director Thomas Kemp, with soloist Adam Mackenzie (principal bassoon at Opera North), whilst pianist Daniel Grimwood plays Elias' Five Pieces in a programme which also includes Beethoven alongside Mark-Anthony Turnage's On Marylebone Road, and members of Chamber Domaine also present a programme of Elias' chamber music alongside Ravel's Piano Trio. Oboist Nicholas Daniel joins the Sacconi Quartet for Elias' Oboe Quartet, and Elias will also be talking about his life and music at a Meet the Composer event. Two of the festival's concerts intriguingly interweave Baroque and contemporary. Cellist Richard Harwood and harpsichordist Steven […]
2020-11-22 14:54:28
A Life On-Line: Janacek in London, Ravel in virtual reality, the London Handel in Italy and Germany, Weill in Paris
[…] in songs by Undine Smith Moore and Florence Price. A terrific programme that would have been lovely to hear live, and made you wish that they had done the complete Britten song cycle, still they finished with his disturbing arrangement of The Last Rose of Summer. [YouTube] The Kent-based festival Music at Malling went on-line this year, with a weekend of events which are still available on-line from Beethoven, Elias and Turnage from pianist Daniel Grimwood to Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time performed by the festival's resident ensemble, Chamber Domaine, and other events focus on the music of Elias and Turnage, alongside Bach, jazz and more. Family events conclude with Eleanor Alberga's version of Roald Dahl's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Great fun. [Music at Malling] Conductor Daniel Parkinson and friends have been fundraising for Help Musicians, with a recording of a new version of Copland's Appalachian […]
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