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2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
James McVinnie performing at the Royal Festival Hall organ with Bedroom Community - Sept 2015The Royal Festival Hall organ is 70. Built from 1950–1954 to the specification of the London County Council's consultant, Ralph Downes, it was restored and re-configured by Harrison & Harrison as part of the hall's reconstruction during 2005-2007 and it was re-inaugurated on its 60th anniversary in March 2014. Now, to celebrate the instrument's 70th birthday, organist James McVinnie has a residency at the Southbank Centre featuring organ recitals including a wide range of repertoire as well as an appearance by the James McVinnie Ensemble.Though James had played the organ once before the rebuild, he was not familiar with it until he came to play it as part of the 2014 celebrations. But he spent two years as an organ scholar at St Albans Cathedral where the organ was also designed by Ralph Downes and built […]
2024-02-26 15:10:33
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part I, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: February 26, 2024. Missed dates and Luigi Dallapiccola. For the last three weeks, we’ve been preoccupied with Alban Berg, and we feel good about it: Berg was a revolutionary composer (not by his constitution but by the nature of his creative talent) and he should be celebrated, even if our time, philistine and woke, doesn’t suit him well. The problem we have is that we missed several very significant anniversaries: for example, George Frideric Handel‘s – he was born on February 23rd of 1685; also, one of the most interesting German composers of the 16th century, Michael Praetorius, was born on February 15th of 1571. We missed the birthday of Francesco Cavalli, a very important composer in the history of opera, on February 14th of 1602. Two famous Italians were also born during those three weeks, Archangelo Corelli on February 17th of 1653 and Luigi […]
2024-01-03 12:40:00
Deus ex machina
My recent retreat at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Madeleine at Le Barroux in south-eastern France was my first since the COVID-19 pandemic. Since my last visit the Monastery has been extended and a new organ by Bernard Aubertin has been constructed in the Abbey church . The specification of the new organ is available via this link. Here is background to organ builder Bernard Aubertin from the Les Maitres d'Art website:The Aubertin organs are true creations, each being adapted to a unique person and to a precise place. The choice of proportions, governing the visual aspect, must be closely linked to the tone. Bernard Aubertin is a “biological” organ maker and refuses the “an organ can play any music”, using traditional materials. The main goal being for the artist to create a made-to-measure instrument , both living and welcoming, able to give pleasure and surprise again and again. Precise research aimed at finding the right materials and […]
2023-12-21 00:00:00
The Annual Christmas Post 2023 [27 CDs]
Again we present a set of Christmas recordings, from the middle ages till today. We hope there is something for everyone, to enjoy listening moments, in times of wars all over the world.We wish you all a very happy Christmas!Thomas Cadfael, Duckjammy, Dutchpublisherand the whole MIMIC-teamNowell synge we bothe and somA feast of Christmas Music in Medieval EnglandGothic VoicesRecorded: 2018Label: Linn Records CKD 591Download 1fichier gofile workuploadAntoine Busnois (1430-1492)Magnificat and other vocal worksKapel van de Lage LandenHarry van der Kamp - directionRecorded May & October 1993Label: Emergo EC 3954-2Download 1fichier pixel workuploadPierre de la Rue (1452-1518)Missa Conceptio tuaMedieval & Renaissance Music for AdventSchola Antiqua of ChicagoMichael Alan Anderson - directionRecorded December 2012Download 1fichier pixel workuploadOns is een kijnt geborenChristmas songs from the Koning Manuscript ca. 1500Aventure, ensemble for Medieval musicIta Hijmans - directionRecorded January 2007Label: Challenge Records FL72412Download 1fichier pixel workuploadJean Titelouze (1563-1633)Magnificat, Hymne & Pieces d'orgueEnsemble Les MeslangesThomas van Essen, Volny Hostiou […]
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