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2024-04-08 03:30:00
A Jazz Musician on Classical Music and Jazz
by Karl NehringIn a recent review of a CD that paired the Duruflé Requiem with Four Lenten Motets by Poulenc (review to be found here), I appended an interview with the late jazz saxophone player Jackie McLean in which he spoke of borrowing chords from Poulenc and then going on to discuss the influence of classical composers on other jazz musicians. Those who have followed Classical Candor for any length of time may recall that we have offered occasional reviews of jazz releases, justifying those reviews with the argument that there is a sense in which some forms of jazz can reasonably be regarded as examples of chamber music. One jazz musician who holds strong views about the relationship between jazz and classical music is the pianist Ethan Iverson (see photo), two of whose albums we have reviewed previously: Every Note Is True (see review) and his latest, which includes a formal piano sonata of his own composition, Technically Acceptable (reviewed here). Iverson, […]
2024-04-01 03:30:00
Duruflé: Requiem; Poulenc: Four Lenten Motets (CD Review)
by Karl NehringThe Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; Harrison Cole, organ; Stephen Layton, conductor. Hyperion CDA68436I will freely admit to knowing very little about the French composer Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986). To be honest, until studying the CD booklet and doing a quick bit of supplementary research, I had no idea he was so relatively modern, living until 1986. And although I am not a huge organ buff, I certainly recognize the names of the famous organists Pierre Cochereau, Jean Guillou, and Marie-Claire Alain – all of whom were students of Duruflé. However, although I knew very little about Duruflé the composer (pictured below), I was familiar with one of his compositions, because his Requiem was sometimes paired on recordings along with the Requiem of his fellow Frenchman, Gabriel Fauré. An outstanding example of that pairing is the Telarc release featuring Robert Shaw leading the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.Whereas the Telarc recording of the Duruflé features the full […]
2024-03-24 11:25:00
St Martin-in-the-Fields, LondonThe group’s unequivocally world-class quality rang out, albeit intermittently, in this lucid performance of Duruflé’s Requiem and other 20th-century French-language worksT
2024-03-23 09:49:00
Writing Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys
[…] session at Kirby Hall for Solomon's Knot's disc of music by George JeffreysAs to repertoire, he regards himself as a generalist partly because he has to teach the whole range, though he admits that his knowledge is deeper in some areas than others. He is finding himself drawn to Bach more and more, but this is partly because of his Orgelbüchlein project, of which more anon. And de has recently been working his way through Duruflé's organ works.Bach's Orgelbuchlein was a project Bach conceived for over 160 chorale preludes. He managed to complete only 46 and William has been inviting contemporary composers to write chorale preludes to fill in the gaps. William is currently editing the first volume for publication [see the project website] and there are six volumes planned. In theory, he has all the gaps covered, but when it comes to publication there are occasional copyright issues, and in […]
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