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British saxophonist, composer, educator, and record producer
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2023-07-14 00:00:00
Richard Rodney Bennett, Arthur Bliss, George Butterworth & Gustav Holst: The British Music Collections
[…] made for Argo in July 1975. They went on to re-record them for Chandos in November 1989; also here on MIMIC.Richard Rodney Bennett:The British Music Collection01 - 04 Piano Concerto No. 1 [24'10]05 - 07 Concerto for Stan Getz [21'14]08 Murder On The Orient Express - Waltz [3'35]09 Four Weddings and a Funeral - Main Theme [3'38]10 Dream Sequence for cello and piano [6'47]Stephen Kovacevich-piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson (01-04 [January 1971])John Harle- saxophone, BBC Concerto Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth (05-07 [March 1993])Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conducted by John Mauceri (08-09 [January 1993 & September 1995])Julian Lloyd-Webber- cello & Richard Rodney Bennett (10 [October 1993])Decca 470371-2 (recorded 1971 to 1995; this compilation first issued 2006)[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Brent Town Hall, Wembley, London (01-04), BBC Hippodrome, Golders Green, London (05-07), Sony Studios, Culver City, USA (08), Hollywood, USA (09), Henry Wood Hall, […]
2022-06-24 04:00:00
Frank Martin: Concerto for Winds and Four Ballades - Riccardo Chailly
Frank Martin:01 Ballade for flute, piano and strings [7'29]Jacques Zoon- flute, Ronald Brautigam- piano02 Ballade for alto saxophone, strings, piano, timpani and percussion [14'02]John Harle- alto sax, Ronald Brautigam- piano, Marinus Komst- timpani03 Ballade for piano and orchestra [16'20]Ronald Brautigam- piano04 Ballade for trombone, piano and strings [8'13]Christian Lindberg- trombone, Ronald Brautigam- piano05 - 07 Concerto for 7 wind instruments, timpani, percussion and strings [20'49]Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Riccardo ChaillyDecca 20c 478 835-2 [recorded December 1991 to April 1994; digital download released 2015][digital download; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans]Recording venue: Grote Zaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam,Recording engineer: John Pellowe; Producer: Andrew CornallDownload from Mega.
2022-05-04 10:24:24
Classical music at this year's Bath Festival
[…] violinist Irene Duval and pianist Sam Armstrong, pianist Ryan Corbett, and pianist Jonian Ilias KadeshaOther visitors to the festival include IF Opera will be presenting a faded Parisian salon, Chez Bullier, evoking memories of classic operas. Soprano Claire Booth will be revisiting her extraordinary solo tour-de-force with Poulenc's La voix humaine performed in an intimate, secret location. Saxophonist Jess Gillam and her ensemble will be performing an eclectic programme of music by CPE Bach, John Harle, James Blake, JS Bach, Piazzolla and Will Gregory. The Tallis Scholars are exploring music by composers who worked at the Sistine Chapel from Josquin to Palestrina and of course Allegri! The Consone Quartet are joined by viola player John Crockatt for a programme that culminates in one of Mozart's wondrous string quintets.Away from classical, there is the jazz group Empirical, Bristol-based collective Snazzback and London-based Lydian Collective, and Public Service Broadcasting. Full details from […]
2021-10-02 08:06:05
Historical Fiction: Christian Forshaw & Grace Davidson's latest disc together mixes Baroque classics with modern reinterpretations
[…] recorded and is planned for release next year (once Historical Fiction is properly launched). The music in this disc is a suite of folk music arising out of music written for three separate visits to the Lindisfarne Festival, and as well as Grace and Christian, the disc involves other instrumentalists including a bass clarinet and a marimba. Grace Davidson and Christian Forshaw A big influence on Christian has been his teacher John Harle, who inspired the way Christian uses his saxophone in a classical manner, though he does not perform straight transcriptions, he is both a composer and a performer. Another influence is straight choral music, Christian was a choirboy and he loves the sound and names the choir of St John's College, Cambridge as his favourite choir, for the choir's warmth and heard (and in fact, Grace's son is a treble there at the moment). But he […]
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