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British composer (1906-1997)
- classical music
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- composer, organist, music teacher, screenwriter
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2022-06-11 06:00:00
Violinist Midori Komachi has not only recorded Vaughan Williams' Violin Sonata but is planning performances of the composer's music in Japan
Simon Callaghan & Midori Komachi recording their Vaughan Williams album On 1 July, the London-based Japanese violinist Midori Komachi is releasing a disc of Vaughan Williams' Complete works for Violin and Piano, with Simon Callaghan on the MusiKaleido label including The Lark Ascending and the rarely performed Violin Sonata in A minor. Not only is Midori performing the music from the disc in the UK but she has a parallel project in Japan, performing Vaughan Williams' music alongside films and talks as well as the release of a new Japanese translation of Simon Heffer's biography of the composer. This builds on Midori's 2017 Delius Project, which included the publication of her Japanese translation of Eric Fenby’s Delius as I Knew Him. I caught up with Midori by Zoom from Japan, where she was doing research for her PhD, to chat about Vaughan Williams, his music for violin and how playing […]
2021-12-21 00:00:00
The British Light Music Collection 1 (Gavin Sutherland)
The British Light Music Collection 1CD1: British Light Music. World Premieres [Vol.1]1.01. Malcolm Arnold: The Roots of Heaven - Overture [5'03]1.02. - 1.08. William Alwyn: Suite of Scottish Dances [7'43]1.09. Malcolm Sargent: An Impression on a Windy Day [7'14]1.10. Clifton Parker: The Glass Slipper - Overture [3'12]1.11. James Langley: The Coloured Counties [5'52]1.12. Gordon Jacob: The Barber Of Seville Goes To The Devil - Overture [4'29]1.13. Maurice Johnstone: Tarn Hows. A Cumbrian Rhapsody [13'56]1.14. Alan Langford: Two Worlds - Overture [5'12]1.15. - 1.19. Richard Rodney Bennett: Little Suite [9'42]1.20. David Lyon: Joie de vivre - Overture [6'50]CD2: British Light Music Discoveries Vol.22.01 - 2.03. Malcolm Arnold: Little Suite No. 4, op.80a [7'34]2.04. Wiliam Blezard: The River [6'11]2.05. - 2.10. Adrian Cruft: Traditional Hornpipe Suite [7'04]2.11. Eric Fenby: Rossini on Ilkley moor - Overture [6'36]2.12. - 2.15. Raymond Warren: Wexford Bells Suite [11'33]2.16. Arthur Butterworth: The Path Across the Moors [6'42]2.17. - […]
2020-09-02 23:00:00
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet plays Sibelius and Delius
[…] tense and unremitting. Personally I find this approach a breath of fresh air. From the same year comes the Cello Sonata. It was written - as was the Cello Concerto - for Alexander Barjansky. It is a work with a glowingly rounded and generous-hearted sunset lyricism. This is well put across by Isaac and Jones without the radiance and cohesive coherence achieved by Julian Lloyd-Webber. The sound is from 1971 and this too is evident.Eric Fenby who with Barjansky played the Delius sonata to the composer assisted the Fitzwilliam in preparing for the recording sessions as did Sidney Griller with the composer’s own metronome markings for the Sibelius.Powerhouse performances of three little known works. (MusicWeb Review)
2016-01-29 12:30:10
[…] 1908); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910; and he mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of Delius’s works. After 1918 Delius began to suffer the effects of syphilis, contracted during his earlier years in Paris. He became paralysed and blind, but completed some late compositions between 1928 and 1932 with the aid of an amanuensis, Eric Fenby. The lyricism in Delius’s early compositions reflected the music he had heard in America and the influences of European composers such as Edvard Grieg and Richard Wagner. As his skills matured, he developed a style uniquely his own, characterised by his individual orchestration and his uses of chromatic harmony. Delius’s music has been only intermittently popular, and often subject to critical attacks. The Delius Society, formed in 1962 by his more dedicated followers, continues […]
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