Raymond Leppard News
British conductor and harpsichordist (1927-2019)
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- classical music
- United Kingdom
- conductor, composer, pianist, film score composer, harpsichordist
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2024-01-29 09:41:00
What happens when a conductor best known for his operatic work, conducts Mendelssohn's Elijah: Sir Antonio Pappano & the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican with Gerald Finley
[…] trio and the semi-chorus in 'Holy, Holy, Holy'. Thus giving us the contrasts in textures that Mendelssohn requires (his first performance used a whopping ten soloists) without having to use eight, underused big-name soloists.This was a pragmatic decision which seemed to reflect Pappano's approach to the whole work. The orchestral playing from the first notes of the overture was often lithe with a sense of highly detailed markings which reflected Mendelssohn's original; I remember Raymond Leppard saying about the work, when he conducted it with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in the 1980s, that this was the work of a young man and that Mendelssohn's markings reflect this. Pappano largely avoided the sort of full-fat, late Romantic sound that is simply inappropriate for Mendelssohn. Speeds were often fleet, but apposite, the sound world full of colour and detail and there were little moments that I noticed, such as the […]
2023-10-13 00:00:00
Britten, Chausson, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Rubbra, Schumann et al: Orchestral & Vocal Works (Malcolm Sargent et al)
[…] D major, op.13 ~ [31'21]Denis Matthews- piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent *; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar ^; Jacques Abram- piano, Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Menges ~EMI CDZ 5747812 [recorded January ~ and August * 1956 and July 1964 ^; CD issued 2001][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: No.1 Studio *~, Abbey Road and Kingsway Hall ^, LondonRecording engineers: Christopher Parker *~ and unknown ^Producers: Raymond Leppard *, Ronald Kinloch Anderson ^, and Lawrance Collingwood ~Download from Mega.
2023-07-23 08:07:00
No one thought there was a market for the Beatles
[…] as being an early music specialist. But in fact this is not true at all. He was involved in modern music and he was involved in film scores. He was a much broader musician than this early music category wasn't he? CB: He started with early music and moved on from there. In the same way I suppose that Neville Marriner started with 18th century music and moved on from there, and Raymond Leppard the same. But the fact that he was able to change his interest and his concept was fascinating. BS: How important were the film scores? CB: Well, the only one that I had anything to do with was Henry VIII. That consisted almost entirely of old music except for one piece, which is the music for the joust where Henry VIII is sitting there looking jealous; there is […]
2022-06-10 23:34:14
The Queen of Pop cover songs, KARINE HANNAH puts her spin on Def Leppard’s hit, ‘Hysteri
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