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2023-11-06 04:55:00
Ola Gjeilo: Dreamweaver (CD Review)
by Karl NehringThe Road (text: Charles Anthony Silvestri); Autumn (text: Silvestri); The North; Dreamweaver; Winter Light; Agnus Dei; Stone Rose; Ingen Vinner Frem Til Den Evige Ro (trad. Norwegian hymn arr. Gjeilo). Ola Gjeilo, piano; Grace Davidson, soprano; Duncan Riddell, solo violin; Roberto Sorrentino, solo cello; The Choir of Royal Holloway; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Robert Gough, conductor. Decca 485 4635The last time I reviewed an album by the Norwegian composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978, pronounced “yay-lo”), the solo piano album Dawn, I mentioned how impressed I had been by a couple of his earlier choral albums but then concluded my review as follows: “This new one, however, is a disappointment, comprising as it does music that never seems to rise above the merely pleasant. For a composer with Gjeilo’s talents, merely pleasant is not nearly enough. As they say in the sports world, “c’mon man!” Perhaps it is time to for Gjeilo to get back to choral writing.” […]
2023-10-30 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 63 (CD Reviews)
[…] be told, I find the music on this release to be quite delightful, even though it takes quite a few “liberal readings” of the original text. Hey, what the heck?! Whip me, beat me, call me a liberal – this interpretation is both lively and lovely. If you’d like to hear the Goldberg Variations in a whole new (old, actually – Baroque ensemble) light, this new release is well worth a listen. Purcell: Fantazias in three and four parts. John Holloway Ensemble (John Holloway, violin; Monika Baer, viola; Renate Steinmann, viola; Martin Zeller, violincello. ECM New Series 2249 The English composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695) is a composer that many reading this blog have most likely heard about as a figure in music history; however, I would venture a guess that the majority of music lovers have heard very little – if any – of the man’s music. On this new release from ECM, the British violinist […]
2023-09-26 07:06:00
A Lady and her Reputation: with modern recordings of Smyth's major works in the catalogue, we now need to put her work into a proper context
[…] assessment and see it in its proper context and not simply re-legislate past-history and past opinions.Of the two operas that have not been recorded, Fantasio is an early work and Smyth herself dismissed it, whilst the material for Entente Cordiale cannot currently be located. As each work has come along on disc, it has revealed a different facet to a composer whose enduring image remains the problematic one of conducting The March of the Women from a cell window in Holloway Prison with a toothbrush, thanks to Sir Thomas Beecham's ear for a good story. She was a vivid character, yet her music can be surprising and late works such as Fête galante (written when she was in her mid-60s) and The Prison (written when she was in her 70s) take us into remarkable sound worlds that link only partially to what English music was doing at the period.There was resistance, during her lifetime. Partly because her […]
2023-09-22 18:30:37
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