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Austrian composer (1868-1941)
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2023-10-05 23:44:00
The Alexander String Quartet almost always has a Saturday morning series at Herbst, accompanied by talks by composer/musicologist Robert Greenberg. This year's series is called Music as a Mirror of Our World: The String Quartet from 1905 to 1946. The title is....partially correct. It's a mirror of our world if you think only white men compose string quartets.Here's the programming for the full series. For each concert, I've suggested an alternative quartet they might have programmed.Program 1: Austria. Quartets by Schoenberg and Webern. Add Johanna Beyer String Quartet 1 or 2.Program 2: Russia. Quartets by Stravinsky and Prokofiev. No obvious pick here, so let's go for the unknown-to-me Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova, who wrote two strings quartets.Program 3: Czechoslovakia. Quartets by Haas and Janacek. Vítězslava Kaprálová wrote eight string quartets; take your pick.Program 4: United States. Quartets by Barber and Piston. Add Ruth Crawford Seeger's sole quartet.Program 5: Austria. Quartets by Zemlinsky and Korngold. The loveliest girl […]
2021-12-29 18:37:00
Tally of performances attended, 2021
Another strange and, let us hope, highly unrepresentative year, if not quite so strange as last year. As usual, I have counted any composer once for any one event (i.e. Parsifal counts as one, as does a minute of Webern, as do four Beethoven sonatas in the same recital). Concert performances still count as opera. Interesting and heartening to see Janáček fare so well, but there was one very clear winner for 2021: Opera 6 Mozart3 Janáček 2 Gluck, Wagner 1 Darren Berry, Cavalli, Enescu, Humperdinck, Ravel, Strauss, Tippett, Alastair White Concerts 6 Mozart 5 Beethoven, Schubert 3 Schumann, Stravinsky 2 JS Bach, Bartók, Brahms, Haydn, Janáček, Mahler, Messiaen, Purcell, Ravel, Sibelius, Strauss 1 CPE Bach, WF Bach, Martin Baker, Mason Bates, Benjamin, Berlioz, Berg, Georg Böhm, Joseph Bologne, Bruch, Byrd, Britta Byström, Chopin, Ann Cleare, Couperin, Debussy, Dvořák, Elgar, Brian Elias, Raquel García-Tomás, Gerhard, Gibbons, Gossec, […]
2021-07-23 15:08:00
St John the Baptist Church, High Barnet, LondonJohanna Müller-Hermann, arr. Joshua Ballance: Fünf Lieder, opp.11 and 32Mahler, arr. Ballance: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Schoenberg, arr. Webern: Chamber Symphony no.1, op.9 Anita Monserrat (soprano)Hannah Gillingham (flute)James Gilbert (clarinet) Seleni Stewart (violin) Benedict Swindells (cello) Gus Tredwell (piano) Joshua Ballance (conductor)To the (other) end of the Northern Line, to High Barnet (Chipping Barnet, if you prefer), for a wonderful concert in the inaugural season of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival, conceived during lockdown by conductor and scholar Joshua Ballance. Here was a judicious mixture of known and—to me, at any rate—unknown, the known in new, chamber guise, arranged by Ballance and Webern (whose music features in Ballance’s doctoral study). First, the unknown: two songs from Johanna Müller-Hermann’s op.11 (c.1914) and three from her op.32 (between 1932 and 1936). It was a fascinating opportunity to hear music from this Zemlinsky pupil. If […]
2021-05-04 08:20:58
A new festival aims to provide much needed cultural nourishment in High Barnet
A new festival in North London, the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival, wants to provide Barnet with much-needed cultural nourishment after the last year. Conductor Joshua Ballance is the artistic director and the festival's first outing presents three chamber music concerts during July at Church of St John the Baptist, High Barnet (EN5 4BW) all featuring talented early-career musicians in programmes which provide a lively mix of well-known and lesser known works including music by William Grant Still, Florence Price, Johanna Müller-Hermann and Lili Boulanger alongside Schubert, Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Mahler and Schoenberg. Violinist Charlie Lovell-Jones kicks things off on 17 July 2021 with a programme of music for violin and piano by Schubert, Saint-Saëns, William Grant Still and Florence Price. Then on 22 July, Joshua Ballance's ensemble, Mad Song, are joined by mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat for a programme of chamber adaptations of larger works; Webern's arrangement of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony […]
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