Niel Gow News
Scottish musician (1727-1807)
- violin, fiddle
- Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- composer, fiddler
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2022-05-06 08:15:40
Crossing cultural boundaries: Britten Sinfonia placed Holst's Indian-inspired opera Sāvitri at the centre of an intriguing evening of Anglo-Indian collaborations
[…] in cracking form for the final part. The result was, admittedly, a somewhat unwieldy programme but its heart was certainly in the right place. We began with Grace Williams' Sea Sketches, written in 1944 for the BBC Welsh Orchestra (now the BBC National Orchestra of Wales). Williams was a pupil of RVW, part of a remarkable female generation studying with him as his other students included Gustav Holst's daughter Imogen, Elizabeth Maconchy and Dorothy Gow. But Williams also studied in Vienna with Egon Wellesz (who has studied with Schoenberg). This mix is apparent in her music, her Welshness, her English training and her interest in music beyond these isles. The five-movement suite began vivid and vigorous with High Wind and the music rather invoked Benjamin Britten, with lots of strong textures. Sailing Song was a lilting melody with ripples of disturbance underneath (clearly the seas in South Wales where Williams lived […]
2021-01-07 07:40:05
If Haydn went to Scotland: the Maxwell Quartet continues its exploration of Haydn's London quartets alongside 18th century Scots traditional tunes
Haydn String Quartets Op.74, Folk music from Scotland; Maxwell Quartet; Linn Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 31 December 2020 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) The young Scottish quartet continues its engaging exploration of Haydn's later quartets, imaginatively paired with folk music from ScotlandThe Maxwell Quartet's previous disc on Linn Records combined Haydn's String Quartets Opus 71 with folk music from Scotland, and the quartet's new (released 8/1/2021) generously filled disc for Linn follows this up with Haydn's String Quartets Opus 74 and further folk music from Scotland, including music by Niel Gow, Nathaniel Gow, Isaac Cooper, William Marshall and Sine NicFhionnlaigh. The two discs make a neat pairing because Haydn wrote his Opus 71 and Opus 74 quartets as a set of six, it was the publisher who split them up. The quartets arise directly from Haydn's changing circumstances. In 1790 his employer of nearly 30 years, Prince […]
2020-04-02 12:10:58
Phamie Gow: The Milky Way Context Scottish composer Phamie Gow is a multi-instrumentalist who was classically trained at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire. She studied under Ronald Stevenson and regularly undertook commissions, films and theatre work whilst studying. Since graduation, Gow has produced and released nine albums of her own original […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2019-08-15 07:00:00
Broadway WorldGavin Roach presents the Victorian premiere of Michael Gow's Toy Symphony.
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