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British composer and pianist (1936-2012)
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- composer, music teacher, jazz musician, pianist, film score composer
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2024-03-17 07:00:29
In the name of anti-elitism, Arts Council England has declared war on opera and excellence | Catherine Bennett
‘Good’ singers performing great music by dead people. Who’d listen to that?For an organisation so full of surprises – one day on funding, another on
2024-01-21 15:43:00
From large-scale Liszt and Wagner to intimate Schumann and Schubert at Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique
[…] him by the guardian of Ernestine von Fricken, the Estrella from Carnaval and someone Schumann was briefly engaged to in 1834. Thus, as with much of his music, an autobiographical element enters the work made more complex by the fact that Schumann did not use all the variations in the published work, and added a final etude based on another theme! What we have is a series of character pieces; Symphonic Etudes was dedicated to Sterndale Bennett, who played it frequently in England, though Schumann would advise his wife Clara not to play it in public!From the very outset, Leonskaja played with a subtle expressiveness, giving each etude its own distinctive atmosphere, yet doing so with what were often small gestures, just what was needed and not showy, even in the more bravura movements. Throughout the work she created remarkable changes of mood with very subtle means, and we were completely […]
2023-12-22 00:00:00
Vaughan Williams Christmas Music, Christmas Baroque, Orchestral Christmas & On Chritmas Night (Richard Hickox, Marc Taddei, Charles Gerhardt & Andrew Nethsingha)
[…] not given; CD issued 1991][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue, engineer and producer- no information provided. No booklet provided even with the CD release.On Christmas Night:01 John Rutter: What sweeter music02 Trad.: Noël nouvelet03 James Burton: Balulalow04 William Mathias: A babe is born, op.5505 Harold Darke: In the bleak mid-winter06 Trad.: Ding! dong! merrily on high07 Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the apple tree08 Trad.: I saw three ships09 Richard Rodney Bennett: Out of your sleep10 Peter Warlock: Benedicamus Domino11 John Joubert: There is no rose12 Trad.: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day13 Matthew Martin: Adam lay ybounden14 Matheo Flecha the Elder: Riu, riu, chiu15 Trad.: O little town of Bethlehem16 Trad.: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen17 Christopher Robinson: Make we joy18 Felix Mendelssohn: Hark! the herald angels sing19 John Tavener: The Lamb20 Michael Finnissy: Telling21 Kenneth Leighton: Coventry Carol22 Trad.: On Christmas night23 Franz Gruber: […]
2023-11-24 09:54:00
Magical textures & supple lines: Fauré's La bonne chanson, Ravel & Canteloube from Louise Alder & eleven friends at Wigmore Hall
Emma Bardac in 1931Fauré: La bonne chanson, Berlioz: La captive, Ravel: Shéhérazade, Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne; Louise Alder, Doric String Quartet, Joseph Middleton; Wigmore HallReviewed 23 November 2023Suppleness and flexibility were the watchwords in this lovely evening of French song for voice and instrumental ensemble as part of Louise Alder's residencyLouise Alder continued her residency at Wigmore Hall on Thursday 23 November 2023 with an evening of French song for voice and instrumental ensemble. Joined by pianist Joseph Middleton, the Doric String Quartet (Tim Crawford, Ying Xue, Hélène Clément, John Myerscough), Laurène Durantel - double bass, Amina Hussain - flute, Rachael Clegg - oboe, Max Welford - clarinet, Guylaine Eckersley - bassoon, and Mark Alder Bennett horn for Fauré's piano and string quintet version of La bonne chanson, and George Striven's chamber versions of Ravel's Shéhérazade and Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne.Behind Fauré's La bonne chanson lies the fascinating figure of Emma […]
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