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2022-06-09 17:51:00
Li-Tai-Pe, Theater Bonn, 4 June 2022
[…] no sense overstays its welcome. Rudolf Lothar’s skilful libretto plays no small role in that; opera-goers may known him from Eugen d’Albert’s Tiefland, but there is clearly more to his œuvre, from novels and plays to a libretto (for Paul Graener) on the subject of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. What of Franckenstein? It seems—and here I must note Juliane Brandes’s helpful programme essay—that a crucial figure in placing his musical language is his teacher, Ludwig Thuille, now likewise little known as a composer though he retained currency in German postwar conservatories through his decidedly non-Schoenbergian Harmonielehre. Historically, though, Thuille, whose other pupils included Hermann Abendroth, Walter Braunfels, Rudi Stephan, Ernest Bloch, and Paul von Klenau, was accounted a key figure in the so-called Munich School of composers, from whom Richard Strauss now dwarfs all others, but which also includes Hans Pfitzner, Max Schillings, and Alexander Ritter. Lest this become a […]
2020-12-29 10:50:00
Presenting my thirty-three best CDs of 2020
[…] example of the supplementary licensed repertoire is the wisely-chosen Rubbra and Moeran disc with Raphael Wallfisch licensed from Naxos. My advocacy of Brilliant Classic's Cello Sonatas Edition needs go no further than listing the featured composers: Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Lanzetti, Haendel, Caporale, Geminiani, Pericoli, Boccherini, Beethoven, Moscheles, Hummel, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Alkan, Schubert, Franck, Cilea, Debussy, Roslavets, Pilati, Grieg, Poulenc, Röntgen, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Martucci, Fauré, Kodály, Pizzetti, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Miaskovski, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Glazounov, Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Thuille, Casella, Rubbra, Moearan, Shostakovitch, Schnittke, Britten, and Kapustin. Brilliant Classic's Cello Sonata Edition offers hours of rewarding listening to both established masterpieces and new discoveries for remarkably little cost - I paid just over £1 a disc. It is very good music played by very fine musicians without the obligatory sprinkling of social media stardust, and it is not released by Universal Classics. Which is why it and similar gems are not spun by […]
2019-12-10 13:34:57
Spring at Conway Hall: pre-concert talks, Beethoven, premieres and more at the Sunday concert series
The Spring 2020 Sunday concert series at Conway Hall has been launched, with an impressive array of concerts from 12 January to 7 June 2020. I will be giving four pre-concert talks during the season, Breaking new Ground looking at Beethoven's Violin Sonatas (19 January 2020), Cello sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms and Shostakovich (23 February 2020), A tale of two friendships on the relationships between Brahms and the Schumanns, and Shostakovich and Weinberg (5 April 2020) and In search of Bach on Bach's cello suites (10 May 2020).Beethoven is, of course, very much a focus of the concerts with the artistic director of the series Simon Callaghan performing Beethoven's complete Piano Trios with Ben Gilmore, and Ashok Klouda, and Simon will join the Galliard Ensemble to perform Beethoven's Quintet in E flat for piano and winds alongside music by Richard Strauss's pupil Ludwig Thuille and Poulenc's Sextet, and Simon will also […]
2017-11-16 12:20:12
EQUATORIAL WINDS + 1: Playing Wind Quintets & Sextets by Farrenc, Taffanel and Thuille, Nov. 26 2017 @ Kenton College, Kileleshwa
Date: November 26, 2017 Venue: Kenton College, Kileleshwa Time: 3 PM Tickets: KES 500
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