Gerti Gordon News
Austrian actress (1933-2016)
- Austria
- opera singer, stage actor
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2024-04-20
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2024-04-12 08:35:00
Full of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides
[…] and functional music and you felt that perhaps something could have been done to relax the atmosphere. But Shibe simply played, and did so wonderfully yet in a remarkably dead-pan manner. The sound of the lute required you to concentrate but his playing drew you in. The Rowallen Manuscript was compiled in the early 1600s and is named for Rowallen Castle in East Ayrshire where it was found. The Straloch Manuscript is named for Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580-1661). First we heard Swit Sant Nickola, a very redolent tune that really made you want to get up and dance, then came Canaries which was written as a dance tune, the name referring to a popular dance. Finally A Scotts Tune which was slow, sad and almost cried out for a voice.Five string players from the Dunedin Consort (two violins, two violas and cello) joined Shibe on stage and they then […]
2024-03-07 07:39:00
Danza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful elan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun
[…] as she focused on teaching and performance. First of we hear her 1934 piece, Recuerdos Preciosos (Precious Memories), written after a trip to Barcelona, the first movement all laid-back heat and the quiet cool of the cloister in the cathedral, the second a lively evocation of a busy amusement park. The first response to these engaging pieces is why has it taken so long for pianists to bring them to our attention.Pamela Harrison studied with Gordon Jacob and Arthur Benjamin, her finely crafted tonally-based music gradually going out of fashion in the post-war climate. Her Six Dances is a relatively late work, from 1976, originally written for a friend who had taken up the piano late in life. Written for piano duet, it is played on two pianos here. Six contrasting, delightful movements where Harrison's ear is deceptive, the outward conventionality and charm of the music being underpinned by sly […]
2024-03-06 18:00:49
Former Sonic Youth bassist takes aim at consumerism and masculinity against a barrage of imposing beats
2024-03-01 07:33:00
Dancing with Piazzolla: Welcome to the sophisticated world of the London Tango Quintet
Dancing with Piazzolla: Astor Piazzolla, Agustín Bardi, Pintín Castellanos, David Gordon, Horacio Salgán, Juan de Dios Filiberto, Enrique Delfino, Feliciano Brunelli, Gerardo Matos Rodríguez; London Tango Quintet; AWAL27 February 2024High musical values, a love of the genre and a sense of engagement that draws you in, welcome to the sophisticated world of the London Tango QuintetFounded by violinist David Juritz in 2007, the London Tango Quintet brings together David Juritz - violin, Craig Ogden – guitar, Miloš Milivojević - accordion, David Gordon - piano and Richard Pryce – double bass, a striking line-up of musicians with backgrounds stretching from jazz to classical and beyond, linked by their love of tango. Dancing with Piazzolla is the ensemble's debut disc and features six tracks by Piazzolla alongside other tango classics and new pieces by the ensemble's keyboard player.What strikes you on first listen to the disc is the high level of musicianship and the […]
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