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2020-05-27 14:46:28
A disc that I never wanted to end: Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe displays clarity, structure and an innate sense of elegance in Bach's solo lute music on Delphian
[…] that the textures of the pieces work well on the lute. Commentators remain divided, but this is terrific music and deserves to be heard. On this disc from Delphian, Sean Shibe plays three of Bach's lute works in the modern classical guitar, the Lute Suite in E minor, BWV 996, the Partita in C minor BWV 997 and the Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV 998. Sean Shibe in rehearsal at Crichton Collegiate Church(Photo Delphian Records) We start with the Lute Suite in E minor, one of Bach's earliest surviving chamber works and his earliest for lute. It was probably written in Weimar (where Bach worked at the Ducal court) between 1712 and 1717. It has six compact movements in the classic format of 'Prelude', 'Allemande', 'Courante', 'Sarabande', 'Bouree', and 'Gigue', and is quite light and entertaining, despite the inclusion of a Pietist hymn in […]
2020-03-25 07:44:13
Singing in Secret: The Marian Consort in Byrd's mass for four voices and propers for All Saints
[…] new disc (released 27 March 2020) from Rory McCleery and The Marian Consort on Delphian, Singing in Secret explores these Roman Catholic resonances in William Byrd's music. Around a performance of Byrd's Mass in Four Voices, McCleery has placed the motets Miserere mei, Gaudeamus omnes, Timete Dominum, Ave Maria, Laetentur Coeli, Justorum Anime, Deo Gratias, and Beate mundo corde, ending with the large scale Infelix ergo. The Marian Consort recording session at Crichton Collegiate Church (photo Will Campbell-Gibson) We have very little background to Byrd's masses, they were printed without their dedicatory title page which usually a great source of information about a work. Whilst we have occasional descriptions of recusant Catholic services in private houses where Byrd was present, we are not able to place his masses with a particular ensemble the way the music written for the Anglican church in England can often be. The […]
2016-09-05 10:55:00
[…] the Festival Hall a year later by the London Philharmonic and Charles Groves and then in 1970 by Jascha Horenstein - who championed Simpson's music - and the London Symphony Orchestra, and no less than twelve reviews of these additional performances are quoted by Donald Macauley. The critics penning those reviews are a role call of the art of music journalism - David Cairns, Gilliam Widdicombe, Edward Greenfield, Stephen Walsh, Noel Goodwin, Anthony Payne, Ronald Crichton and Felix Aprahamian. Writing in the Listener in 1964 Deryck Cooke recalled that the symphony was 'defiantly praised by one eclectic intellectual critic despite its unfashionable musical language while one ordinary music lover of a musical journalist could protest that it was "a long way out - a gala night for the avant-garde"'. Thirty years later the tide had turned, with the deregulation of broadcast media starting a race to the bottom that […]
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2016-05-03 21:41:42
A History Of Processed Words
In 1983, Michael Crichton told Merv Griffin that, “When you type, the words appear on the screen … you can move around on the screen, change what you’ve written, pull blocks of text, put them elsewhere. You have complete freedom.” His disbelieving glee was shared by many, but some writers reacted differently.
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