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70th birthday celebrations for composer Richard Blackford continue with performances, publications & recordings
Richard BlackfordComposer Richard Blackford celebrated his 70th birthday last month, and the celebrations are spreading out across the year with performances, publications and recordings. His new cantata, Babel, based on the Biblical stories of Noah's flood and the tower of Babel for choir, organ, piano duet and percussion has just been published and is being released on disc on Lyrita in March, with David Hill conducting the Ikon Singers, on a disc that also includes Blackford's La Sagrada Familia, his symphony inspired by Gaudi's masterpiece in Barcelona, with the composer conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Also recently published is Clarissa's Tango for violin and piano, which Clarissa Bevilacqua, violin [to whom I chatted last year, see my interview] and Thomas Hoppe, piano have released as a digital single.Also in March, Nimbus Records is releasing Blackford's Songs of Nadia Anjuman with soprano Elizabeth Watts and the Britten Sinfonia, which set […]
2020-12-31 06:19:00
Some New Releases (CD/SACD Mini-reviews)
By Karl W. NehringWith COVID-19 still ravaging central Ohio, the library is still restricted to drive-through service, but that has not prevented me from auditioning some new discs, so allow me to offer some more abbreviated reviews of what I have been able to sample lately in hopes that you might see something that sounds as though it would be worth an audition in your listening room. Enjoy! Balada: Works for Clarinet. Ivan Ivanov, clarinet. Naxos 8.579056. This program of chamber music by Spanish-born American composer Leonardo Balada (b. 1933) is fairly “modern-sounding” music, probably not for all tastes, but there are some wonderful passages that should bring a smile to those who, like yours truly, are a fool for a clarinet. The program opens with Caprichos No. 7 “Fantasies of La Tarara” from 2009, a chamber concerto for clarinet and instrumental ensemble, which on this recording comprises two violins, […]
2020-03-16 17:02:39
Applications are now open for the 2020 Mirecourt International Violin Competition – to be held in Mirecourt, France from the 14th to 22nd of November, 2020. Open to international violinists 26 years of age and younger, the 1st prize winner will receive €5,000. The 2020 jury will comprise: Martin Beaver, Esther Hoppe, Dong-Suk Kang, Marianne […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2019-10-10 13:48:29
The then 22-year-old South Korean VC Artist Bomsori Kim and pianist Thomas Hoppe performing Saint-Saens’ ‘Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso’ in the Semi-Final of the 2012 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition – in Hannover, Germany. The Joseph Joachim Competition has this week announced a number of rule and condition changes for its upcoming 2021 competition – […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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