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2024-02-16 00:00:00
Some lesser-known 20th century Cello Concertos
[…] cello and orchestra, op.74 (c. 1924) [23'51]1.02 - 1.06 Alan Bush: Concert Suite for cello and orchestra, op.37 (1952) [36'27]2.01 - 2.03 Havergal Brian: Concerto for cello and orchestra (1964) [21'43]Raphael Wallfisch- cello, BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Martin YatesDutton Epoch CDLX 7263 [recorded September 2010; issued 2011][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: St-Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, LondonRecording engineer: Dexter Newman; Producer: Michael PonderEdvard Grieg for cello and orchestra:01 - 03 (orch. Joseph Horovitz) Cello Concerto after cello sonata, op.36 (1883/2001) [29'33]04 - 05 (arr. Benjamin Wallfisch) 2 Elegiac Melodies, op.34 [7'35]06 (arr. Benjamin Wallfisch) Peer Gynt. Suite No. 2, op.55 no.4 - Solvieg's Song [4'38]07 (arr. Benjamin Wallfisch) Peer Gynt. Suite No. 2, op.55 no.1 - Ingrid's Lament [5'00]08 - 09 (arr. Benjamin Wallfisch) 2 Melodies, op.53 [8'00]10 (arr. Michael Freyhan) Melodies of the Heart, op.5 no.3 - Jeg elsker Dig (Ich Liebe Dich) [2'42]11 (arr. Michael […]
2022-06-15 06:38:38
Poul Ruders' Harpsichord Concerto
Poul Ruders Harpsichord Concerto; Mahan Esfahani, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Leif Sgestam; OUR Recordings Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani premieres a work written for him, a concerto that utilises the instrument with remarkable vividness & vibrancy The world premiere recording of Poul Ruders' Harpsichord Concerto has been issued as an EP by OUR Recordings with soloist Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leif Segestam. The concerto, premiered in 2020, was written as the result of a commission from the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra specifically for a work for harpsichord and orchestra, and is here recorded live in Aarhus. Contemporary music for harpsichord and orchestra is not a new thing, since the instruments revitalising in the 20th century there have been composers willing to experiment from Manuel de Falla and Francis Poulenc to Joseph Horovitz and beyond. Ruders' takes quite a traditional approach, this is a three movement work, fast - slow - fast, lasting some 20 minutes. […]
2022-04-27 08:27:44
Ethel Smyth, Doreen Carwithen, George Walker, RVW & more: BBC Proms 2022 launches
[…] Proms in the 1990s. Around this, the season has something of a celebration of Smyth's music. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra in Smyth's Mass in D, Ben Goldscheider and Elena Urioste are the soloists in Smyth's Concerto for Violin and Horn with Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO, and Smyth's songs and early Piano Trio also feature. Other 20th century composers worth noting include Michael Tippett's Symphony No 4, Florence Price's Symphony No. 1, Joseph Horovitz' Lady Macbeth a scena, Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos and Grace Williams' Sea Sketches. Large scale works are back this year, so as well as the RVW and Smyth, the season opens with Verdi's Requiem with Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus and Crouch End Festival Chorus, and there are performances of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius (with Edward Gardner conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir), four Mahler symphonies (1, 2, […]
2022-04-15 17:00:58
Lyrita: **** CPO: *** A Times obituary this week for Joseph Horovitz reckons that he could not decide if he was a composer of serious or light music. The same could be said of most of his contemporaries. An unexpected album of mid-century piano concertos delivers a prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music without much [...]
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