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English composer, musician and organ builder
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- composer, harpsichordist, music professor, organist
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2024-04-06 11:15:00
Bizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances
Bizet: Carmen, Act One - Blaise Malaba, Aighul Akhmetshina - Royal Opera House (Photo: ROH/Camilla Greenwell)Bizet: Carmen; Aigul Akhmetshina, Piortr Beczala, Olga Kulchynska, Kostas Smoriginas, director: Damiano Michieletto, conductor: Antonello Manacorda; Royal OperaReviewed 5 April 2024The new production pairs finely musical performances with a sense of gritty realism and a reluctance to add any local colour and movement.For all its iconic status and abundance of good tunes, Bizet's Carmen remains something of a challenge for large opera companies. Until relatively recently matters of edition and style were unquestioning, the grand opera version with Ernest Guiraud's recitatives and a setting that was 'traditional 19th-century Spain'. Since then, things have got more complex with a return to using the opera comique version and a wish to avoid the lazy stage-Spanish stereo-types. It is worth emphasising that the Bizet's opera has little Spanish input, composer, librettists and original author were all French men. And whilst […]
2024-02-18 00:00:00
Rise, O my soul - English Anthems
Rise, O my soulEnglish Anthems by Bull, Byrd,Gibbons, Simmes, Tomkins and WardStudio de musique ancienne de MontréalConsort des Voix HumainesChristopher Jackson - directionRecorded May 2006Label: Atma ACD2 2506Download 1fichier pixel workupload
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] to enjoy everything that seems to be exclusive, or which the masses are presumed not to have the privilege of enjoying. It was remarked by Charles Dickens that the greatest happiness of the average human being, was to go “dead-head” to the theater. It was no doubt party owing to this tendency that these “rehearsals” were so popular. At the close of the winter of 1851-52 in Boston, the Germania formed a connection with Ole Bull, traveling with him very extensively in the North and West, for nearly four months. Then, again, a delightful summer (the fourth) at Newport. During the leisure hours of this summer, plans were laid for a more ambitious character than heretofore, with a view of spending the winter again in Boston. The Boston Music Hall was now nearly completed, and in the anticipation of an increased general interest in the subject of music, it was […]
2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
[…] 2002][digital-download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, LondonRecording engineer: Tony Faulkner; Producer: Arthur JohnsonNorwegian Rhapsody:01 - 04 Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1, op.46 [14'17]05 Edvard Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, op.34 - II. The Last Spring [5'42]06 Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, op.35 - II. Allegretto tranquillo e grazioso [2'29]07 Johan Svendsen: Polonaise [8'17]08 Johan Svendsen: Variations on a Norwegian Folk Tune [6'29]09 Halfdan Kjerulf: The Wedding in Hardanger [2'57]10 Ole Bull: Solitude [3'07]11 Rikard Nordraak (orch: Halvorsen): From Maria Stuart - Purpose [4'01]12 Rikard Nordraak (orch: Halvorsen): From Maria Stuart - Valse Caprice [2'20]13 Rikard Nordraak (orch: Halvorsen): Olav Trygvason [2'58]14 Johan Halvorsen: Entry of the Boyars [5'06]15 Johan Halvorsen: Danse Visionaire [7'51]16 Johan Svendsen: Norwegian Artists' Carneval [6'46]17 Rikard Nordraak (orch: Halvorsen): Norwegian National Anthem [1'12]Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Per DrierCD RPO 8015 [recorded January 1989; CD issued 1989][digital download; flacs, cover scan […]
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