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2024-02-26 14:02:00
A Vast Obscurity: SongEasel bringings song celebrations to South East London including Gabriel Fauré's centenary
[…] soprano Ella Taylor and pianist Jocelyn Freeman chart the course of Lord Byron's poem Don Juan in music including the first performance of a new commission from Emily Hazrati setting texts by Dr Joseph Spence (Master of Dulwich College and librettist of Dani Howard's opera, The Yellow Wallpaper).Soprano Francesca Chiejina joins Jocelyn Freeman at St Laurence's Church, Catford on 16 June for a concert celebrating Shakespeare with music by from the Baroque to the present day including Arne, McDowall, Samuel, Ruiz, and Finzi's Let us garlands bring. Finally, Mark Padmore and Jocelyn Freeman close the festival with The Wanderer and the Scholar on 21 June at St Stephen's Church, Dulwich by returning to two figures associated with Lord Byron, his Dulwich classmates, the celebrated pedestrian Captain Robert Barclay and Major-General John Gaspard Le Marchant, with music by Beethoven, Schubert, C. Schumann, Vaughan Williams, and Macmillan. Audiences can revel in the summer solstice with a day […]
2023-12-31 09:22:00
2023 in record reviews: 17th century Venice as a gay haven, Dichterliebe Reimagined, Elgar on viola, Ethel Smyth's first operatic success
[…] and BBC Symphony Orchestra, making us ask, why the wait? A disc of songs by Franco Alfano from Anna Pirozzi and Emma Abbate revealed a distinctive voice and richly rewarding sound-world.Jocelyn Freeman and friends created a compelling programme of Pushkin-related music Britten, Shostakovich and Prokofiev, whilst Peter Jablonski and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra explored Grażyna Bacewicz's piano concertos.Contemporary music included the stunning sound world of Russian-trained Estonian composer, Galina Grigorjeva's music for male-voice choir, Arne Nordheim's seductive The Tempest, Suite from the Ballet, and Jonathan Dove's intense In Exile. The Engegård Quartet continued their exploration of Olli Mustonen's chamber music with the terrific, atmospheric pairing of String Quartet No. 1 and Piano Quintet.In a slightly unlikely but completely tempting pairing, countertenor Reginald Mobley joined jazz pianist/composer Baptiste Trotignon for a disc of spirituals.Read our 2023 selection below:Style and elegance: with Bach-Abel Society, Les Ombres take us back to the elegant […]
2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
[…] Caprice [2'20]13 Rikard Nordraak (orch: Halvorsen): Olav Trygvason [2'58]14 Johan Halvorsen: Entry of the Boyars [5'06]15 Johan Halvorsen: Danse Visionaire [7'51]16 Johan Svendsen: Norwegian Artists' CArneval [6'46]17 Rikard Nordraak (orch: Halvorsen): Norwegian National Anthem [1'12]Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Per DrierCD RPO 8015 [recorded January 1989; CD issued 1989][digital download; flacs, cover scan - lo-res inlay and booklet from earlier Aurora/ASV/RPO release sourced from internet]Recording venue: All Saints' Church, Tooting, LondonRecording engineer: Sean Lewis; Producer: Arne-Peter RognanDan Godfrey Encores:01 Ferdinand Hérold: Zampa - Overture [8'44]02 Byron Brooke (reconstructed R Corp): Gee Whizz! [4'09]03 Percy Whitlock: Carillon for Organ and Orchestra * [5'08]04 Ethel Smyth: The Boatswain's Mate - Overture [6'46]05 Howard Flynn: Clatter of the Clogs. A Novelty Fox-Trot [3'02]06 Landon Ronald: In an Eastern Garden. No.2 from 'The Garden of Allah' [4'38]07 Armstrong Gibbs (ed. M Pilkington): The Betrothal Ballet Music, op.34 10'40]08 Montague Birch: Dance of the Nymphs […]
2023-12-08 05:00:00
A Mixed Bag of Orchestral Works (Andsnes, Handley, Janssons, Loughran, Panula, Westerberg, Wordsworth et al)
[…] Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UKRecording engineer and Producer: Tim HandleySergei Prokofiev:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No.3 in C major, op.26 [29'11]04 - 07 Symphony No.7 in C-sharp minor, op.131 (with original ending) [32'02]Leif Ove Andsnes- piano, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ole Kristian RuudSimax PSC 1060 [recorded June 1989 and January 1990; CD issued 1990][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, lo-res booklet sourced from internet] Recording venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway.Recording engineer: Arne Akselberg; Producer: James BurnettAllan Pettersson:01 - 02 Concerto No.1 for Strings (1949-50) * [21'06]03 - 11 Symphony No.12 'The Dead in the Square' (1974) ^ [54'09]Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stig Westerberg *; Uppsala University Chamber Choir, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Carl Rune Larsson ^Caprice CAP21369 [Recorded September - November 1975* and October 1977^; CD issued 1988][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet sourced from internet]Recording venue: Concert Hall, […]
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