Gloria Lane News
American opera singer
- mezzo-soprano
- United States of America
- opera singer
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2024-04-25
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2024-04-08 03:30:00
A Jazz Musician on Classical Music and Jazz
[…] Mark asked me to arrange a set of Beatles themes for Pepperland, the evening-length celebration of the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. We could only get rights to a certain number of songs, only six pieces, and we needed an hour show. So to fill up the time, I wrote some original compositions that were related to The Beatles or the idea of the swinging ‘60s. Paul McCartney liked classical music, when they worked on “Penny Lane,” he told George Martin to put in the piccolo trumpet from Bach's Brandenburg Concerto. In fact, there's obviously a lot of European classical music references in the Beatles. So…well…even though I never did this before, I realized I should write a sonata allegro for Mark Morris’s dance. The composition went very quickly, and I really liked the result. After that, I thought, “What am I, a sonata composer now?” Apparently I was! During the pandemic I […]
2024-02-15 04:30:00
Copland Conducts Copland: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (CD Review)
[…] "Symphony No. 2"; Dance Symphony; DISC 11: An Outdoor Overture; Our Town Suite; 2 Pieces for String Quartet (Instrumental); Quiet City; DISC 12: Billy the Kid Suite; 4 Dance Episodes from Rodeo; DISC 13: Fanfare for the Common Man; Lincoln Portrait; Appalachian Spring; DISC 14: Symphonic Ode; Preamble for a Solemn Occasion; Orchestral Variations; DISC 15: Appalachian Spring; Copland Rehearses Appalachian Spring; DISC 16: Sonata for Violin and Piano (1942/3) with Isaac Stern; Duo for Flute and Piano with Elaine Shaffer; Nonet for String Orchestra; DISC 17: Danzón Cubano; 3 Latin American Sketches; El Salón México; Dance Panels; DISC 18: The Red Pony Suite; John Henry; Music for Movies; Letter from Home; Down a Country Lane; DISC 19: Symphony No. 3; DISC 20: Inscape; Connotations conducted by Leonard Bernstein Fans of Aaron Copland may already own a few of the performances included in this boxed set. Many Copland fans may own recordings of some Copland works conducted or performed by others that they prefer over Copland’s own versions. Regardless, the importance, appeal, and value of this new release is next to impossible to overstate. Aaron Copland is arguably the most important American composer of the 20th century; […]
2023-12-01 00:00:00
Chamber Music for Strings (Coull, Dante, Duke, Goldner, Jean Sibelius, New Zealand String Quartets & Ironwood)
[…] Wilson- violins, Nicola Forsyth- viola, Daniel Yeadon- cello, Neal Peres Da Costa- piano - replica 1868 Streicher pianoforte)ABC Classics 481 4686 [recorded November 2016; issued 2017][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans; no booklet]Recording venue: Eugene Goossens Hall, Ultimo Centre, Sydney, AustraliaRecording engineer & Producer: Virginia ReadAntonin Dvořák:01 - 03 Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, op.5 B.28 [26'53]04 - 07 Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, op.81 B.155 [39'21]Piers Lane- piano, Goldner String Quartet (Dene Olding & Dimity Hall- violins, Irina Morozova- viola, Julian Smiles- cello)Hyperin CDA67805 [recorded April 2009; issued 2010][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk,UKRecording engineer: Ben Connellan; Producer: Jeremy HayesFranz Schubert:01 - 04 String Quartet No.15 in G major, D.887 [51'17]New Zealand String Quartet (Helene Pohl and Douglas Beilman- violins, Gillian Ansell- viola, Rolf Gjelsten- cello)Morrison Music Trust MMT2062 [recorded November & December 2010; […]
2023-11-10 00:00:00
Farquhar, Farr, Finzi, Imogen Holst, Lilburn, McCabe, Psathas, Rubbra & The King's Alchemist: British and New Zealand Chamber Music
[…] scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Opera House, Wellington, New ZealandRecording engineer: Richard Hulse; Producer: Murray KhouriImogen Holst - String Chamber Music (all first recordings):01 String Quartet 'Phantasy' (1928) [10'00]02 - 04 Duo for Viola and Piano ^ (1968) [9'53]05 - 08 String Trio No. 1 (1944) [14'30]09 - 13 The Fall of the Leaf for Cello (1962) * [7'47]14 - 16 Sonata for Violin and Cello (1930) [18'26]17 - 19 String Quintet * (1982) [14'16]Court Lane Music (Simon Hewitt Jones and David Warswick-violins, Tom Hankey- viola, Oliver Coates and Thomas Hewitt Jones*- cellos, Dniel Swain^- piano)NMC D236 [recorded August 2007; originally issued as Court Lane Music CLM37601 in 2008; NMC re-release in 2017[digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans; no booklet is provided with digital downloads so I have included the booklet for the original Court Lane Music issue sourced from the internet]Recording venue: All Saints Church, West Dulwich, LondonRecording […]
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