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2022-10-19 16:06:38
Book news (from the Bookseller): Weidenfeld & Nicolson... The post New study of Auschwitz women’s orchestra appeared first on Slippedisc.
2021-10-26 11:14:59
A series of little gems: Reels, Drones & Jigs from the ensemble Perpetuo
Reels, Drones & Jigs; Perpetuo; Champs Hill Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 26 October 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A delightful and imaginative programme of shorter contemporary pieces, all with a folk-inspired element with Scots and Irish dance featuring stronglyThis latest disc from the ensemble Perpetuo on the Champs Hill label is intriguingly entitled Reels, Drones & Jigs consists of 12 short(ish) pieces based variously on traditional music, with a preponderance using Scots and Irish music, by an admirably wide range of composers, Ailie Robertson, Aidan O'Rourke, Alasdair Nicolson, David Fenessy, Donald Grant, Judith Weir, Adrian Sutton, James MacMillan, Peter Maxwell Davies, David Matthews, Melinda Maxwell and Cecilia McDowall. Perpetuo, founded by oboist James Turnbull in 2013, is a flexible ensemble which performs traditional and contemporary chamber music, here featuring Fenella Humphreys (violin), Andrew Berridge (viola), Cara Berridge (cello), Lindsey Ellis (flute/piccolo), James Turnbull (oboe/cor anglais), Sara Sarvamaa […]
2021-09-08 23:28:18
[…] century or so by seven Black composers. Most impressive here is the 1915 set of five songs by Harry (Henry Thacker) Burleigh, the “Negro” singer, composer, and arranger who became a close, trusted companion to Dvořák during the two and a half years that the latter spent in New York City (with vacations in Iowa) running the short-lived National Conservatory of Music, 1892-95. The texts, by Adela Florence Nicolson (pseud. Laurence Hope), are full of exotic evocations typical of the day (“jungle flowers,” “the Lotus lake,” “Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar”). Burleigh sets them marvelously for singer and piano alike. If I picked up a hint of Verdi’s Amneris (“Strana pietà” on the repeated words “Crushing out life”) and Chopin’s Prelude no. 20 in C minor (a brief piano transition in “Till I Wake”), this […]
2021-09-08 23:28:00
ArtsFuse.org: Classical Music Review: “Dreams of a New Day — Songs by Black Composers”
[…] century or so by seven Black composers. Most impressive here is the 1915 set of five songs by Harry (Henry Thacker) Burleigh, the “Negro” singer, composer, and arranger who became a close, trusted companion to Dvořák during the two and a half years that the latter spent in New York City (with vacations in Iowa) running the short-lived National Conservatory of Music, 1892-95. The texts, by Adela Florence Nicolson (pseud. Laurence Hope), are full of exotic evocations typical of the day (“jungle flowers,” “the Lotus lake,” “Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar”). Burleigh sets them marvelously for singer and piano alike. If I picked up a hint of Verdi’s Amneris (“Strana pietà” on the repeated words “Crushing out life”) and Chopin’s Prelude no. 20 in C minor (a brief piano transition in “Till I Wake”), this […]
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