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English composer and organist
- organ, violin
- opera
- Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom
- composer, organist, violinist
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2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
[…] 1 'Elevamini' (1957) [29'49]05 - 07 Sinfonia Concertante for three trumpets, piano and strings (1958/61) ^ [18'46]08 - 10 Piano Sonata No. 2 (1957 rev. 1970) * [17'28]Malcolm Williamson- piano*; Martin Jones- piano^, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesLyrita SRCD281 [recorded September 1971* for Lyrita and June 1976 for EMI; CD issued 2007[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK and Kingsway Hall, London*Recording engineers: Christopher Parker and Stanley Goodall*; Producers: Christopher Bishop and James Burnett*Download from Mega.
2024-01-08 16:07:00
Catching up, January 2024
[…] Shafran; had he not drunk, he might have been number one). In 1940, Knushevitsky, David Oistrakh and Lev Oborin organized a very successful trio; they performed worldwide to great acclaim. Knushevitsky and Oistrakh also played together in one of the incarnations of the Beethoven quartet. Knushevitsky died at the age of 55 from a heart attack, alcoholism probably contributing to his early death. Here’s the famous second movement from Schubert’s Piano Trio no. 2, which Stanley Kubrick used so effectively in his Barry Lindon. It’s performed by David Oistrakh, violin, Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, cello, and Lev Oborin, piano. The recording was made in 1947. You can also find the complete Triohere. And here, from 1950, is Sviatoslav Knushevitsky’s recording of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. Alexander Gauk leads the Great Radio Orchestra. As for Shafran, you can read more about him in one of our earlier entries. Another Russia-born string player has an […]
2023-09-07 03:30:00
Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Streaming review)
By Bill Heck Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra. Valdimir Jurowski, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Pentatone Back in the day, recordings of Strauss's sprawling tone poem, Also Sprach Zarathustra (hereinafter ASZ) were a favorite audiophile system test. Did the opening sustained bass note from the organ rattle the windows? Could the huge orchestral outbursts scare the cat? And let's not forget the tremendous boost in interest generated by the use of this music in Stanley Kubrick's classic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Often lost among those sorts of breathless queries were more mundane questions such as whether this was music worth hearing in the first place and, if so, what was the quality of the given performance? Richard StraussThese days, at least casual observation suggests that the music of Richard Strauss has dropped out of favor. I certainly don't recall seeing loads of new releases featuring his tone poems, especially this one. […]
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2023-07-27 12:51:22
Sydney Youth Orchestra has appointed Stanley Dodds as... The post Berlin Phil violinist becomes chief conductor in Australia appeared first on Slippedisc.
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