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English conductor, organist and composer (1895-1967)
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2024-04-20 08:34:00
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent, 1889Lecture recital: Gabriel Fauré and his mélodies; Graham Johnson, Sarah Fox, Florian Störtz; Leeds Lieder Festival at The Venue, Leeds ConservatoireGabriel Fauré, Lili Boulanger, Mahler, Roger Quilter, Muriel Herbert; James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook; Leeds Lieder Festival at The Venue, Leeds ConservatoireReviewed 18 April 2024A day of French song with a focus on Fauré, with Graham Johnson making us love the composer's late period, and James Gilchrist in fine form, from elegant Fauré to perfumed Boulanger, Mahler in comic mode and Roger Quilter with his heart on his sleeveThursday 18 April was A Day of French Song at Leeds Lieder Festival. In the morning the festival's Young Artists had a public masterclass with soprano Dame Felicity Lott concentrating on French repertoire, then at lunchtime pianist Graham Johnson was joined by soprano Sarah Fox and baritone Florian Störtz for a lecture recital on Gabriel Fauré and his mélodies, and Johnson went on join […]
2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] E-flat major, op.73 'Emperor' [39'38]04 - 06 Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, op.58 * [34'44]Peter Donohoe- piano & BBC Symphony Orchestra; Anthony Goldstone- piano & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra *; conducted by Norman Del MarBBC Radio Classics (IMP) BBCRD 9110 [recorded August 1982 and July 1981*; issued 1995][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recorded in concert at Royal Albert Hall, London. Recordings from BBC Sound Archives.Recording engineers: not given; Producers: Anthony Sargent and CB Samuelson* As with the Rachmaninov, this is the only recording of a Beethoven Concerto by Donohoe that I know of.George Gershwin:01 Rhapsody in Blue (original version, orch F Grofe) * [16'14]02 - 19 George Gershwin's Songbook [19'10]20 - 22 Piano Concerto in F major ^ [31'53]Peter Donohoe- piano; London Sinfonietta* and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra^ conducted by Simon RattleEMI CDC754280-2 [recorded December 1986 & January 1987* and December & October^ 1990; […]
2024-03-07 04:30:00
Dvořák: Violin & Piano Concertos (CD Review)
[…] light of Dvořák’s newly developed but deeply sincere friendship and admiration for Brahms, the latter’s influence is as prominent in the Violin Concerto as the flavour of Czech folk music, though neither of these elements in any way diminishes the striking originality and individuality which stamp the work as no one but Dvořák’s.” The concerto was a specialty of Ricci’s; he performed it numerous times in concerts worldwide and had made a previous recording with Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra. His familiarity with and affection for the work come through in this beautiful performance, which should go far to win converts to this overlooked masterpiece. The Piano Concerto is pleasant and entertaining, if not quite in the same exalted class as the Violin Concerto. The Moravian-American pianist Rudolf Firkušný (1912-1994) was especially fond of the piece and like Ricci with the Violin Concerto, Firkušný often played it in in concert and recorded it several […]
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2024-02-20 20:24:21
Lookouts Aloft! A Composer Puts Out to Sea
[caption id="attachment_33427" align="alignleft" width="228"] Smyth in 1901 by Sargent[/caption] Dame Ethel Smyth (1854-1944) said, “I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs, not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.” This is the story of a woman — in the long history of women stifled by important or influential men in their lives or eras — who did the big and difficult job over and over. Ethel Smyth, a strong-minded musician, fought against her father’s pontifical noise and ‘put out to sea’ (or at least crossed the channel) in 1877 at age 19 to study at the Conservatorium in Leipzig. One of the top Smyth scholars, Amy Zigler, has a brief biography available HERE. BMInt is happy to publish this preview in the context of a Cappella Clausura’s performance of Smyth’s Mass in D at Emmanuel Church at 4pm on March […]
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