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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 […]
2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] Braddock, said: ‘Norwich Cathedral is delighted that the festival will celebrate the amazing breadth and diversity of which organ music is capable. Across a whole range of styles and performances, the festival invites the wider community to experience organ music in all its versatile brilliance.’ The festival will open in style on Saturday, 6 July, 7pm, with Norwich Cathedral Choir joining forces with the choirs of Ely and Peterborough for a concert featuring choral favourites including Parry’s I was glad, Handel’s Zadok the Priest and Wesley’s Blessed be the God and Father. Ashley Grote, Edmund Aldhouse and Tansy Castledine jointly conduct what promises a marvellous and invigorating concert featuring Norwich Cathedral organists, David Dunnett and Robbie. Tickets £15-£35. A festive treat, too, is in store on Sunday, 7 July, 10.30am, with Organ Festival Eucharist, a special and celebratory service featuring Norwich Cathedral Choir accompanied by members of Norwich Baroque. Music includes Haydn’s […]
2024-03-18 07:35:00
Quite an achievement: the North London Chorus' ambition rewarded in a performance of Ethel Smyth's The Prison that intrigued and engaged
[…] any formal music institution in England, and like him, she wished to study in Leipzig. But Elgar's father (a provincial piano tuner) could not afford to send his son; Smyth's father, a General whose opposition Smyth managed to face down, could and, surprisingly, did send his daughter to Leipzig. There she soon dropped out of official lessons and studied privately. Like Elgar, Smyth's music exists at a slight tangent to the standard English line of Parry and Stanford (both highly influenced by Brahms) and their pupils, leading the English 20th century musical style. Until the Great War, much of Smyth's musical life was in Continental Europe.By the time she came to write The Prison she was over 70 and deafness had vastly slowed down her output. The music is conservative for its time, yet with a definite presence, you never feel that Brahms is present in the room. Dramaturgically the […]
2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] and canticles, the music of Stanford and Howells. For James, the repertoire of music for Evensong is extraordinary. But living in London with that sense of rubbing shoulders with other cultural offerings made him want to focus on other areas, to explore and uncover other music. He has now had major concerto and solo works written for him by Nico Muhly, Gabriella Smith, Tristan Perich, Tom Jenkinson/Squarepusher, Martin Creed, David Chalmin, David Lang, Richard Reed Parry, Bryce Dessner, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Darkstar, and others.Most of his commissions have been through composers who are friends, and it is rare for him to get involved in a project where the composer does not already know his work. But writing for the organ can be somewhat daunting for non-organists; it works best if the composer is not too specific, they need to have an instinctive feel for the instrument. When Gabriella Smith was writing […]
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