Mátyás Seiber News
British-Hungarian composer (1905–1960)
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Mátyás Seiber)
- cello
- classical music, jazz
- Hungary, United Kingdom
- composer, music teacher, university teacher, cellist
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2024-04-23
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2024-04-18 09:15:00
Engaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar
Leeds Lieder 2024 - Joseph Middleton, James Newby - Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book ClubMatyas Seiber, John Jacob Niles, Thomas Traill, Joseph Suder, Percy Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Ravel: Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques, Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen; James Newby, Joseph Middleton; Leeds Lieder & Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book Club17 April 2024A new collaboration sees Leeds Lieder at a cool café/bar with an engaging and beautifully sung programme of songs inspired by folk-musicA former fuel storage tank is not the usual venue for a song recital, but Hyde Park Book Club is no usual venue and last night's recital there (17 April 2024) by baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton was a collaboration between Leeds Lieder (of which Middleton is the artistic director) and Through the Noise, the organisation that promotes its concerts, noisenights, via a distinctive crowdfunding model. The recital was all of folk-inspired music, from Matyas […]
2024-02-16 00:00:00
Some lesser-known 20th century Cello Concertos
Hungarian Cello Concertos:01 - 03 Mátyás Seiber: Tre Pezzi for cello & orchestra (1956) [19'57]04 - 06 Antal Dorati: Cello Concerto (1977) [33'42]07 - 09 Béla Bartók (arr. Tibor Serly): Viola Concerto (1945) [23'49]Raphael Wallfisch- cello, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Gábor Takács-NagyNimbus NI 5919 [recorded January 2014; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, WalesRecording engineer: Huw Thomas; Producer: Adrian FarmerBritish Cello Concertos:01 - 02 John Joubert: Cello Concerto, op.171 (2012) [23'02]03 - 06 Robert Simpson: Cello Concerto (1991) [28'40]07 - 09 Christopher Wright: Cello Concerto (2011) [18'56]Raphael Wallfisch- cello, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by William BoughtonLyrita SRCD344 [recorded December 2013; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, WalesRecording engineer: Huw Thomas; Producer: Adrian FarmerSainsbury and Foulds:01 - 03 Lionel Sainsbury: Cello Concerto, op.27 (1999) * [33'22]04 - 06 John Foulds: Cello Concerto in […]
2023-04-07 01:00:00
Bliss, Rubbra, Seiber, Stravinsky: Orchestral Works (Hugo Rignold, Endre Wolf, John Dankworth et al)
[…] Theme by Cyril Scott, op.69 (1949) * [4'44]05 Cyril Scott: Consolation (1918) * [6'34]06 - 08 Violin Concerto, op.103 (1959) ^ [31'30]City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hugo Rignold~; Edmund Rubbra- piano*; Endre Wolf- violin, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Schwarz^Lyrita 'Itter Broadcast Collection' REAM1134 [BBC broadcasts May 1967~, August 1967^ and February 1960; issued 2017] [digital download; mono flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue, Engineer and Producer: not statedCollaboration:01 Matyas Seiber & Johnny Dankworth: Improvisations for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra [10'30]02 Igor Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto * [9'30]03 - 07 Leonard Salzedo & David Lindup: Rendezvous for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra [15'00]Gervase de Peyer- clarinet*, Johnny Dankworth Band and London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hugo RignoldSociety [probably recorded in 1961; first issued in 1962 as Society SOC 963 and as Saga XIP 7006 (with the title Collaboration), digital download issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover […]
2021-03-24 20:14:00
Music is the best way to travel
[…] The compositions of the two Mayers most definitely do not fall into this trap; which is understandable as both have had the rigorous schooling in the Western tradition which Pandit Shankar lacked. The Mayer's concertos do not sound like fashionable 'fusion', nor do they sound like the soundtrack for a Netflix Raj period drama. Both father and son have written music which totally justifies the label 'new'. Mayer senior studied composition with the Hungarian exile Mátyás Seiber who encouraged him to explore serial composition in both Indian and Western classical contexts, and this influence is evident in the compositions of both generations of Mayers: music video samples via this link. The Mayers have composed unashamedly challenging music which swims against a tide that is sweeping the classical genre towards the doldrums of 'comfort music'. In 2008 Jonathan Mayer collaborated with me in an appreciation of his father, and this is republished below to […]
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