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2022-08-18 07:00:39
Emma Lou Diemer: Santa Barbara Overture Context Emma Lou Diemer (1927-) composed her popular Santa Barbara Overture in 1995 for Gisèle Ben-Dor and the Santa Barbara Symphony for their 1995-1996 season. The overture was premiered by the orchestra in 1996. The inspiration for this piece, as the title suggests, is […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2021-09-02 04:48:00
Recent Releases, No. 17 (CD reviews)
By Karl W. NehringSongs of Solitude: Hiyoli Togawa, viola. Toshio Hosokawa: Sakura/Solitude; Bach: Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010 – Sarabande; Johanna Doderer: Shadows; José Serebrier: Nostalgia; Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 – Sarabande; Tigran Mansurian: Ode an die Stille; Michiru Oshima: Silence; Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 - Sarabande; Kalevi Aho: Am Horizont; John Powell: Perfect Time for a Spring Cleaning; Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 – Sarabande; Cristina Spinei: Keep Moving; Rhian Samuel: Salve Nos; Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 – Sarabande; Gabriel Prokofiev: Five Impressions of Self-Isolation (Calling Out/Wine for One/Only Birds in the Sky/How Many Weeks...?/Back to the English Garden); Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012 – Sarabande; Federico Gardella: Consolation. BIS 2533 SACD.This gorgeous production is generously filled along […]
2021-07-28 07:29:51
Piazzolla explorations: celebrating the composer's centenary with recordings from Lithuania, Switzerland and the USA
Astor Piazzolla playing the bandoneon This year is Astor Piazzolla's centenary, and centenaries are usually the time for reassessment and rediscovery. Perhaps that will come, I feel that we need modern groups to explore the style and soundworld of the composer's original performances, but at the moment musicians seem to be more interested in where Piazzolla's music can take them and where they can take his music. I have been listening to three, very different tributes to the composer coming from Lithuania, Switzerland and the USA. We get two different versions of his bandoneon concerto and Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas, as well as a wide variety of shorter works in versions for harp and piano. Not a definitive collection of Piazzolla, but a sampling of the explorations triggered by the centenary.First off is a disc from Lithuania with a live performance of Piazzolla's Aconcagua: concerto for bandoneon and orchestra […]
2021-07-03 05:28:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 3, 2021
English Symphony Orchestra - Mahler Symphony No. 9 (arr Klaus Simon)Music from Wyastone - Studio Concert SeriesJuly 7th-11th, 7:30PMThe English Symphony Orchestra's popular and widely-admired series of virtual concerts continues with a performance of Gustav Mahler's last completed work, his Symphony No. 9. Heard in a powerful arrangement for 17 virtuoso solo players by German composer and conductor Klaus Simon, this project marked the first reunion for the ESO musicians following the second UK lockdown.About this concert:The Ninth Symphony was Mahler’s last completed work, and the composer did not live to see it performed. It has since come to be viewed as possibly the Everest of symphonic music. Mahler’s friend, composer Alban Berg, wrote of the piece that “I have once more played through Mahler's Ninth. The first movement is the most glorious he ever wrote. It expresses an extraordinary love of the earth, for Nature. The longing to live […]
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