John Worgan News
English organist
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: John Worgan)
- harpsichord, pipe organ, organ
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- composer, harpsichordist
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2024-04-22
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2021-12-27 08:21:00
[…] R approval process was originally put in place by EMI's senior management to curb Walter Legge's penchant for recording music he was passionate about but which the record buying public was somewhat less passionate about. At one ICD conference I attended in the late 1970s a recording of a Vaughan Williams symphony was proposed for international release. This prompted a representative from EMI Electrola - the German operating company - to ask "Who is this Worgan Williams". That recording was never made, despite Karajan having recorded the Tallis Fantasia in 1952, presumably at the prompting of Legge. 2022 brings the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan William's birth. It remains a complete mystery as to why outside the UK the question of 'Who is Vaughan Williams?' still needs answering. RVW's anniversary year offers the classical music industry a unique opportunity to answer this question. Very few other composers can offer […]
2021-06-02 07:20:18
Innovative drama: Georg Benda's melodrama Medea in its rarely-performed revised version
[…] review Fiendish, but fantastic: after a long relationship with the composer, percussionist Colin Currie has recorded both of HK Gruber's percussion concertos - interview Unashamedly delicious: Nostalgic Russia, music for violin and piano from Hideko Udagawa and Petr Limonov - record review A disc of harpsichord pieces by an unknown late-18th century English composer might not appeal, but you've never heard anything like John Worgan's harpsichord music - record review Home
2021-06-01 07:05:18
What they did next: music from L'Album des Six alongside song cycles written after the six composers went their separate ways
[…] review Fiendish, but fantastic: after a long relationship with the composer, percussionist Colin Currie has recorded both of HK Gruber's percussion concertos - interview Unashamedly delicious: Nostalgic Russia, music for violin and piano from Hideko Udagawa and Petr Limonov - record review A disc of harpsichord pieces by an unknown late-18th century English composer might not appeal, but you've never heard anything like John Worgan's harpsichord music - record review Making goodness interesting: a new recording of Handel's Rodelinda from the English Concert with Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies and Joshua Ellicott - record review Home
2021-05-31 09:04:34
Handel the young Italian: Ensemble Marsyas in chamber music and duets from the composer's early years
[…] review Fiendish, but fantastic: after a long relationship with the composer, percussionist Colin Currie has recorded both of HK Gruber's percussion concertos - interview Unashamedly delicious: Nostalgic Russia, music for violin and piano from Hideko Udagawa and Petr Limonov - record review A disc of harpsichord pieces by an unknown late-18th century English composer might not appeal, but you've never heard anything like John Worgan's harpsichord music - record review Making goodness interesting: a new recording of Handel's Rodelinda from the English Concert with Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies and Joshua Ellicott - record review Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain from horn player Ben Goldscheider - record review Home
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