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2024-03-17 06:17:00
I disliked Naxos’ recording of Hamilton Harty’s Irish Symphony, finding the performance overly breathless and oddly balanced, but this version of the Piano Concerto is marvelous. It knocks about eight minutes off the Chandos competition, and instead of sounding too hasty, it gives the music a welcome Irish snap. Particularly in the finale the march […]
2023-09-27 06:37:00
Drinking the stars: Mary Dullea plays the piano music of John McLachlan
[…] (1:07) [10] X . Narita (1:31) [11] XI . Celesta (5:04) [12] XII. Béla (1:20) [13] XIII. Streel (1:34) [14] XIV. Iwa (1:43) [15] XV. Chikara (1:29) [16] XVI. Virelai (2:18) [17] XVII. Kengo (1:42) [18] XVIII. Ague (1:58) [19] XIX. Suna (1:19) [20] XX. Vita (2:16) [21] Ockham’s Razor (1994) (6:40) [22] X (1994) (5:01) [23] November (Winter Music) (2016) (5:22) [24] Drinking the Stars (2012) (5:47)Mary Dullea (piano)All pieces recorded at the Harty Room, Queen’s University Belfast, 13-15 April 2022 except for Nine, recorded Castalia Hall, Ballytobin, Co Kilkenny, 4 August 2014FARPOINT RECORDINGS fp089 2CDsAvailable from Bandcamp.Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogA Lady and her Reputation: with modern recordings of Ethel Smyth's major works in the catalogue, we now need to put her work into a proper […]
2022-10-16 18:26:00
Who next for classical music's naughty corner?
[…] 3, Jaap van Zweden, Anna Netrebko, et al.Noteworthy, if musically as well as politically controversial, is Teodor Currentzis' anthology of Rameau's music The Sound of Light. This is big band Rameau played by Currentzis' Musicaeterna ensemble. It is mixed by the producer as a sonic spectacular which just might appeal to classical's bass literate new audience. You could not get much further from 'authentic' Rameau. But does this matter? Were Stokowski's audience-pleasing Bach transcriptions or Hamilton Harty's Handel arrangements authentic? When will classical music learn that what may appeal to new listeners - de Vlieger's Wagner and Currentzis' Rameau - often does not appeal to the cognoscenti? Should musicians with Russian connections be automatically demonised? Does classical music's naughty corner serve any purpose other than boosting site traffic? Can there be yang without yin?
2022-09-30 04:00:00
Lyrita Classics (Nicholas Braithwaite, Imogen Holst, Adrian Boult, Myer Fredman, Vernon Handley & Andrew Davis)
Lyrita Classics: 01 Michael Balfe: Galop from 'The Bohemian Girl' [1'26]02 Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, op.36 'Enigma' - Variation 10. Intermezzo: Dorabella [2'41]03 Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C major, op.39 no.5 [5'41]04 Frederick Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden from 'A Village Romeo and Juliet' [10'49]05 Percy Grainger: Shepherd's Hey [2'11]06 Percy Grainger: The Immovable Do 'The Ciphering C' [5'04]07 Hamilton Harty: An Irish Symphony - II. The Fair Day [3'01]08 - 13 Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite [9'47]14 Lord Berners (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson): The Triumph of Neptune - Hornpipe [1'50]15 - 18 Gustav Holst: St. Paul's Suite, op.29 no.2 [13'28]19 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis [16'08]Philharmonia Orchestra [01], London Philharmonic Orchestra [05, 06&14], London Symphony Orchestra [08-13] conducted by Nicholas Braithwaite; New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis [02&03] and Vernon Handley [07]; London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted […]
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