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2024-02-12 07:56:00
Magnum Opus: Britten Sinfonia's composer development scheme showcases work from 2023 composers David John Roche, Daniel Soley and Crystalla Serghiou
[…] Wife, is written for the powerful and expressive jazz singer, Emma Smith. Daniel Soley is a composer, experimental sound artist and producer whose eclectic work has ranged from orchestral scores to music and sound design for public installations in the Middle East. His new accordion concerto has been written for Ryan Corbett, the first accordionist to be selected to be a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. And the three composers selected for Magnum Opus 2024 comprise Alex Groves, Eden Lonsdale and Anibal Vidal, who’ll write new works for septet to be premièred London’s Milton Court (opposite Barbican Centre) on Tuesday 9 April (6.00pm, see Barbican website) while also choosing chamber pieces for their works to be paired with. They’ll be supported by programme directors, Dani Howard and Michael Zev Gordon, working towards writing new chamber concertos to be premièred at the 2024 autumn showcase. Alex Groves is an Ivor Novello-nominated composer and curator working […]
2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
Frank Bridge - The Sea:01 - 04 The Sea. Suite [20'41]05 Summer. Tone Poem [9'37]06 Cherry Ripe [3'23]07 Enter Spring. Rhapsody [21'22]08 Lament [4'27]Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesEMI CDM5658552 [recorded July 1975; CD issued 1989][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UKRecording engineer: John Kurlander; Producer: John WillanMany of the recordings in my occasional posts were ripped in the late nineties or early noughties but I then had no means of scanning the artwork. Now it seems increasingly possible to download good artwork from the internet making posting of the recordings a possibility. The above recording and the next are cases in point. I am indebted to friend Danse de Puck for allowing me to use her artwork scans that appeared in a post on a private blog for the next recording.Ralph Vaughan Williams:01 - 09 Job. A Masque for Dancing * […]
2023-09-29 06:39:00
Three more gems: British Piano Concertos from Simon Callaghan & BBC National Orchestra of Wales
[…] known not for his own music but for his arrangements, the orchestral versions of RVW's Folksong Suite and Holst's Moorside Suite are his. But he studied with Charles Villiers Stanford at the Royal College of Music as well as with Howells and RVW, and taught at the RCM from the mid-1920s until his retirement in 1966. His Piano Concerto No. 2 was written in 1957 and premiered by pianist Edith Vogel with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sir Charles Groves. In three movements, the first is vigorous, athletic and rather jazzy but with moments of introspection and perhaps hints of RVW. The more serious slow movement begins with a striking and rather sinister orchestra introduction and then follows a set of variations in which the piano moves from thoughtful to intense and beyond, in music of appealing variety and depth. The finale is insouciant and rather perky, with a sound world that is pure […]
2022-10-07 04:00:00
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches & Orchestral Works (Charles Groves, David Atherton & Roy Goodman)
Grace Williams (1906 - 1977):01 Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes * (1940) [11'03]02 - 05 Carillons for Oboe & Orchestra * (1965 rev. 1975) [10'31]06 - 09 Penillion ~ (1955) [15'49]10 - 12 Trumpet Concerto * (1963) [13'27]13 - 17 Sea Sketches (1944) ^ [18'55]Anthony Camden- oboe, Howard Snell- trumpet; London Symphony Orchestra * and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ~ conducted by Charles Groves; English Chamber Orchestra ^ conducted by David AthertonLyrita SRCD323 [recorded May 1971~ and November 1973* for EMI; January 1970^ for Decca; this compilation issued 1995][CD-rip; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans]Recording venues: Abbey Road Studios, London, Afan Lido, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales and Kingsway Hall, LondonRecording engineers: Robert Gooch, Stuart Eltham and James Lock; Producers: John Willan, Brian Culverhouse and James MallinsonFor anybody who caught the British music concert conducted by Andrew Manze at this year's Proms, here is one of the very few recordings of the Welsh […]
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