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2024-04-13 23:00:18
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2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
[…] Ippolitov-Ivanov: Procession of the Sirdar, op.1019 Hermann Necke: Csikos Post20 Leroy Anderson: A Trumpeter's Lullaby21 Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance from 'Gayane' *Total time: 72'50.Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesDenon CO-73674 [recorded August and November * 1988; CD issued 1989, digital download 2009][digital download; flacs, cover and (poor) inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venues: Henry Wood Hall and EMI Abbey Road Studios *, LondonRecording engineers: Michael Sheady and Mark Vigars *; Producers: Shigakazu Tanaka and Roy Emerson *Sir Charles' Precious Music Box I (Denon CO-73534), with music by Elgar, Kabalevsky, Saint-Saens and Vaughan Williams, was also issued on CD in 1989 but never seems to have made it to digital download. I have never seen the CD but if anybody should have it and could make a download available, I would be most grateful.Malcolm Williamson:01 Santiago de Espada. Overture for Orchestra (1957) [6'33]02 - 04 Symphony No. 1 'Elevamini' (1957) [29'49]05 […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-27 16:40:28
The Last Transcendentalist
[…] home environment from other families. By the time Dwight matriculated at Harvard, he had developed a deep enough connection to music to mourn the fact that no faculty promoted music, which remained sub rosa: a secret hobby, pursued in one’s leisure time, bordering on idleness. From 1836, when Dwight graduated from Harvard Divinity School until 1843, when Dwight resolved to quit the ministry, Transcendentalism captured Dwight’s imagination and soul. Meaning, exactly, what? Although he emphasizes Emerson’s Nature, Gardiner’s The Music of Nature and Dwight’s plunge into the writings of German Romantics, ably translating some of them, Faucett nicely leaves Transcendentalism vague. The real point of Dwight’s immersion in Transcendentalism, Faucett implies, is substituting music for religion and discovering in Gardiner that “music can be described.” The deep culture of spiritual self-improvement that Dwight inherited from New England merged with Kant’s philosophy and Schelling’s aesthetics to convince Dwight that the human […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-11 02:26:25
Even with the intriguing updates, anyone familiar with the story could make sense of Boston Lyric Opera’s version of Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Cinderella) in the appealing new production at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theater on Wednesday (and through Sunday). [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
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