Landon Ronald News
British musician (1873-1938)
- piano
- United Kingdom
- conductor, composer, music teacher, pianist
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2024-04-25
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2024-04-18 12:00:00
Esdras Mugatik listens to music for accordion by British composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015). '... a magical capacity to differentiate levels of sound ...'
2024-02-02 10:19:00
As chilling and emotional as ever: Kate Lindsey returns as Offred in ENO's strong revival of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale
[…] Bickley as Offred's Mother and John Findon as Luke, Offred's husband. A big mention here to the poignant, and incredibly poised, performance from Elspeth McDonald as Luke and Offred's daughter (doubling with Francesca Ditchburn). More 'blink and you miss them' roles, important in the ensemble but without much time in the spotlight, were Annabella-Vesela Ellis as New Offglen, Alan Oke as the Doctor, Helen Johnson as Moira's aunt, Lydia Marchione as Warren's wife, plus Adam Sullivan, Ronald Naire, Robert Winslade Anderson, Lixin Liu, Amy Kerenza Sedgwick and Sophie Goldrick.Juliet Stevenson was poised and rather moving as Professor Pieixoto, her poignant final envoi to Offred (whose fate remained unknown) emphasising the problem with transporting Margaret Attwood's novel to other genres (opera, television series); Attwood's prose is so wonderful and so luminous, it hardly need amplification in another medium. However Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley make and admirable job of it and […]
2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
[…] by Andrew Davis *; London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesLyrita SRCD389 [BBC Broadcasts May 1973* and April 1980^; this issue 2021][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Royal Festival Hall, London (world premieres)Recording engineers and Producers: not statedGustav Holst:The Perfect Fool. Opera in One Act, op.39 H.150 [62'24]Richard Golding & David Read- basses, Pamela Bowden- contralto, Alison Hargan, Barbara Platt, Lesley Rooke & Margaret Neville- sopranos, John Mitchinson- tenor, Walter Plinge and Ronald Harvi- speakers, George Hagan- narrator; BBC Northern Singers, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesLyrita REAM1143 [BBC broadcast May 1967; this issue 2021][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: BBC Studios, Manchester, UKRecording engineer: not stated; Producer: Lionel Salter.Sir Charles' Precious Music Box II:01 Richard Eilenberg: Die Mühle im Schwarzwalk, op.5202 Franz Schubert: Marche Militaire in D major, D733 no.103 Leroy Anderson: Bugler's Holiday04 Louis Hérold: Overture to 'Zampa'05 Emile Waldteufel: […]
2024-01-04 04:30:00
Igor Levit: Fantasia (CD Review)
[…] multi-disc releases with some sort of unifying theme. We have reviewed several of those recordings in the past, starting with Encounter, a two-CD set that saw Levit playing music by Busoni (his arrangements of works by Bach and Brahms), Reger, and Morton Feldman (you can read that review here). Later in 2021, we reviewed his album titled On DSCH, another two-CD set that includes the 24 Preludes and Fuguesby Shostakovich plus the fascinating Passacaglia on DSCH by the late Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015) (that review can be found here). Then late in 2022 we reviewed another two-CD recording by Levit, this one titled Tristan, which as you might expect from the title contained some music by Wagner along with some Liszt, Henze, and a piano transcription of the opening Adagio from the Symphony No. 10 by Mahler (that review is located here). In addition, there is yet another two-CD release from Levit titled Life that I greatly enjoyed but did not review. It […]
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