Edward Dannreuther News
German musician
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Edward Dannreuther) 2025 (Death: Edward Dannreuther)
- piano
- United Kingdom, German Empire, Kingdom of France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- musicologist, pianist, composer, university teacher, musician
Last update
2024-04-25
Refresh
2023-08-22 06:45:00
Unbound and Unleashed: Hubert Parry's cantata Prometheus Unbound gets the glorious first recording that it deserves
Hubert Parry: Prometheus Unbound, Blest Pair of Sirens; Sarah Fox, Sarah Connolly, David Butt Philip, Neal Davies, Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players; ChandosDrawing a remarkable line between Wagner and Elgar, Parry's glorious early cantata takes Shelley as its inspiration and in a fine performance makes a strong impression despite the complex philosophising of the textThe young Hubert Parry had ambitions to study with Brahms, but he needed to earn a living and study with Brahms wasn't feasible. So, Parry worked at Lloyd's Register and took lessons with the German pianist and composer Edward Dannreuther (1844-1905) who was resident in the UK from 1863 and who would remain Parry's mentor until his death. And in 1880, Dannreuther was the soloist in Parry's Piano Concerto in F sharp major.Dannreuther venerated Brahms but was also a great champion of Wagner (he founded the London Wagner Society in 1872). In 1876 Dannreuther acquired tickets for […]
2019-01-30 19:54:00
From Hyperion, Hubert Parry chamber pieces with the Leonore Piano Trio, revealing an aspect of the composer's output that is relatively neglected, given the prominence of his choral and orchestral works. This recording also highlights the influences Parry absorbed from a fairly early stage in his career, connecting his work to contemporary trends in wider European music circles.The Partita in D minor for violin and piano was conceived in early 1877, when Parry was on holiday in Cannes. He was invited to play (as a pianist) in a series of concerts organized by Edward Guerini, an Italian violinist. They performed a suite for violin and piano, based on a piece which Parry had written in 1872-3. In 1886, it was revived it as the Partita heard in a recital organized by Edward Dannreuther, who had taught Parry in the 1870's, and was very ell connected in European music circles, introducing Parry […]
2018-08-21 08:15:15
Songs of Farewell
Hubert Parry Frank Bridge, RVW, Gustav Holst, Laura Mvula, Hubert Parry; BBC Singers, Sakari Oramo; BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 20 August 2018 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) A supremely poetic account of Parry's choral masterpiece, alongside a striking new work by Laura MvulaWhen composer Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Bart. died in 1918 at the age of 70 it was very much the end of an era. Along with Sir Charles Villiers (1852-1924) Stanford, Parry had been responsible for the creation of a whole generation of English composers, yet Parry's own art looked very much to Germany. He had failed to study under Johannes Brahms but had studied with the German pianist Edward Dannreuther. Parry's Songs of Farewell, amongst his finest works and one of his last, written between 1913 and 1915 represent not only a farewell to life but a farewell […]
2018-08-17 08:24:13
Hubert Parry - the complete string quartets
[…] There he participated in the musical soirees given by William Donkin, the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, and this seems to have spurred Parry on. His first quartet was finished in 1867, and his second in 1868. There was then a gap as, after he finished university he went to work at Lloyd's Register of Shipping (in order to convince his fiancee's family that he was able to support her). Parry would take lessons from Edward Dannreuther, only four years Parry's senior. Dannreuther also hosted chamber music concerts, with quite advanced repertoire, and it was for these that Parry composed his third string quartet in 1878 to 1880.Parry's Quartet No. 1 in G minor, in three movements, is very much in the debt of Mendelssohn, clearly this latter composer's music was in favour at Donkin's soirees. So there is a Mendelssohnian classical elegance to the first movement, and the second movement […]
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe). Performers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): D...