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English conductor (1869–1944)
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2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, UK^.Recording engineers: Mike Sheady & John Kurlander*; Producers: Andrew Keener & David Murray*Edward Elgar:01 - 03 String Quartet in E minor, op.83 [26'25]04 - 06 Piano Quintet in A minor, op.84 ^ [36'03]Peter Donahoe- piano^, Maggini String Quartet [Laurence Jackson & David Angel- violins, Martin Outram- viola, Michal Kaznowski- cello]Naxos 8.553737 [recorded December 1995; issued 1997][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St Martins Church, East Woodhay, Hampshire, UKRecording engineer: Andrew Groves; Producer: Andrew WaltonIgor Stravinsky:1.01 - 1.03 Three movements from'Petrushka' [16'50]1.04 - 1.07 Four Etudes, Op. 7 [8'19]1.08 - 1.11 Sonata in F-sharp minor [29'15]1.13 - 1.14 Sonata (1924) [10'18]2.01 - 2.04 Serenade in A [11'43]2.05 Piano-Rag Music [3'34]2.06 Tango [3'13]2.07 - 2.09 Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments * [19:18]2.10 - 2-16 Movements for Piano and Orchestra * [9:30]2.15 - 2.17 Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra * [16:35]Peter Donohoe- […]
2024-04-10 09:31:00
Dramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings - Ben Goldscheider, Nicky Spence, Britten Sinfonia - Milton Court (Photo: Shoel Stadlen)Judith Weir: Heroic Strokes of the Bow, Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Huw Watkins: Horn Concerto, Mozart: Symphony No. 35 'Haffner'; Nicky Spence, Ben Goldscheider, Britten Sinfonia, Max Baillie, Michael PapadopoulosAn imaginative and appealing programme centred on Ben Goldscheider's peerless horn-playing with Nicky Spence in fine, story-telling formUndeterred by funding issues thanks to Arts Council England's shortsightedness, Britten Sinfonia returned to the Barbican's Milton Court concert hall on Tuesday 9 April 2024 for two concerts. At 6pm, the ensemble launched its 2024 Magnum Opus development scheme with a concert featuring music by three composers joining the scheme for 2024, Alex Groves, Anibal Vidal and Eden Lonsdale, plus music by Salvatore Sciarrino and Caroline Shaw.Then at 7.30pm there was an imaginative programme that featured horn player Ben Goldscheider in the world […]
2024-04-03 06:35:00
A wondrous snapshot of British singing: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance
[…] of British singing in the 1930sRalph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music has become rightly become iconic and on this disc from Albion Records the original 1938 recording is explored from a different angle. We hear that original recording with Isobel Baillie, Elise Suddaby, Eva Turner, Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Mary Jarrod, Walter Widdop, Parry Jones, Frank Titterson, Heddle Nash, Roy Henderson, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, and Norman Allin conducted by Sir Henry Wood with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, but we also hear from each of the singers individually. RVW's piece was predicated on writing sixteen solo lines, each one suitable for its allocated singer, so here we can hear the individuals. There is one extra track, Keith Falkner who was unavailable for the original recording.All the singers had a long association with Sir Henry Wood and the premiere of Serenade to Music took place on 5 October 1938 […]
2024-03-29 00:00:00
Music from the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Music from Estonia Vol.1:01 Heino Eller: Elegia for harp and strings (1931) [12'59]02 - 06 Heino Eller: Five Pieces for string orchestra (1953) [15'21]07 Heino Eller: Tone Poem 'Dawn' (1918) [8'10]08 - 10 Kaljo Raid: Symphony No.1 in C minor (1944) [37'31]Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme JärviChandos CHAN8525 [recorded August 1986; first released 1987][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: SNO Centre, Glasgow, ScotlandRecording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian CouzensMusic from Estonia Vol.2:01 - 04 Artur Lemba: Symphony in C-sharp minor (1908) [39'58]05 Rudolf Tobias: 'Julius Caesar' Overture (1896) [10'08]06 Heino Eller: Tone Poem Videvik 'Twilight' (1917) [6'00]07 Veljo Tormis: Overture No.2 (1959) [11'07]08 Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977) [6'14]Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme JärviChandos CHAN8656 [recorded August 1987 & May 1988; first released 1989][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Henry Wood Hall [01-05], Glasgow and Caird Hall, Dundee […]
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