Emmie Owen News
British actress and singer (1871–1905)
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- soprano
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- opera singer
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2024-03-21 04:00:00
Decca Eloquence 6
[…] LisztPiano Concerto No. 1Piano Concerto No. 2Danse MacabreFantaisie sur des thèmes populaires hongroisFrance Clidat pianoOrchestre de la Résidence de la HayeRoger NorringtonBach rewriteConcerto for Two Keyboards in C minor BWV1062Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV1053Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV1056Piotr Orzechowski & Marcin Masecki electric pianoCapella CracoviensisJan Tomasz AdamusErnest Ansermet CollectionVol. 1 & 2BrittenLes IlluminationsSusan Danco sopranoWar RequiemHeather Harper sopranoPeter Pears tenorThomas Hemsley baritoneBerg Sieben Fruhe Lieder Chloé Owen sopranoLive recordings 1953, 1959 & 1967Vol. 3BeethovenPiano Concerto No. 5Symphony No. 5Rudolf Serkin pianoLive recording 27th April, 1966Vol. 4DutilleuxSymphony No. 1MartinuSymphony No. 4Live recordings 1952 & 1967Vol. 5MagnardSymphony No. 3D´IndySymphonie "Cevenole"Robert Casadesus pianoRecorded 1955 & 1968
2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
[…] experience of seeing them all together at a much-later festival (2013 to be precise) by Mahogany Opera/Aurora Orchestra with Roger Vignoles, music director/accompanist, directed by Frederic Wake-Walker, is still indelibly imprinted on my mind Beyond the Noh source dramatic material, Britten incorporated elements of Noh treatment of theatrical time into this composition. In fact, Curlew River marked a departure in style for the remainder of the composer’s creative life paving the way for such works as Owen Wingrave and Death in Venice as well as the Third String Quartet. Another interesting music-art collaboration fuses renowned British artist Rachel Jones and soprano and acclaimed Messiaen interpreter, Gweneth Ann Rand, who’ll perform all three of the composer’s great song-cycles beginning with Harawi: Chant d’amour et de mort complemented by Jones’ animated painting projections which will form a dazzling backdrop to the performances. However, if the ‘Wooden O’ in Shakespeare’s Henry V couldn’t hold the vast […]
2023-12-23 12:00:24
Classical home listening: Sean Shibe; French music for two pianos – and Anthony Burgess’s guitar quartets
The star Scottish guitarist turns to South America; Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva play Poulenc and more; and the Mēla Guitar Quartet premiere works by the author of A Clockwork Orange• Capable of playing any type of guitar, on the evidence so far, in any style he chooses,
2023-10-31 15:57:47
This month, we mark the centenary of one of music’s most iconic figures. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Maria Callas, Ashutosh Khandekar examines those special qualities that set the Greek soprano apart from all others. Another feature that should make you tick is Misha Donat‘s profile of Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, the madcap inventor of the metronome and much besides. Elsewhere, Simon Heighes has a listen to the first-ever near-complete recording of Handel’s Messiah, made in 1906. And Tom Stewart learns how the Glyndebourne Academy is providing rare opportunities to enter the world of opera. Owen Mortimer finds out how the Symphony Orchestra of India is rapidly winning fans at home and abroad, and, for this month’s BBC Music Magazine interview, conductor Kirill Karabits talks to Rebecca Franks on the eve of his final season in Bournemouth. Simon Broughton is off to Budapest to get a look […]
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