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English composer of the Renaissance
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2024-04-17 06:39:00
Southbank Centre's new season: Schoenberg's 150th, the OAE in Bruckner, Joyce Didonato in Berlioz, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim
[…] Schoenberg's A survivor in Warsaw, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will be burning the candle at both ends, presenting all of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and performing Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 (not in the same programme!).The London Sinfonietta is celebrating Schoenberg's 150th anniversary, with Jonathan Berman conducting the Ode to Napoleon (no, I've never heard that live either) and Chamber Symphony. They will be joined by the Royal Academy of Music's Manson Ensemble for a performance of Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett. The Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today will feature conductor Chloe Rooke and soprano Ella Taylor in Saariaho’s Semafor and Hans Abrahmsen’s Two Inger Christensen Songs. The London Philharmonic Orchestra's season will include Evan Williams’ Dead White Man Music (Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble), and Sarod player Amjad Ali Khan performs his own concerto Samaagam alongside a new overture by Reena Esmail and selections from film soundtracks by AR Rahman.The full season […]
2024-04-16 06:36:00
The sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns
[…] of colour here is striking, and this is one of those piece where it is worth remembering that Vicéns is a painter too. I am not quite sure what an Abstract Expressionist picture would sound like but perhaps we have it here.Una Superficie Sin Rostro (2020) for solo piano, features Corinne Penner. The music here is quiet, concentrated with a superb use of space and not for the first time on the album, you think of Morton Feldman, the pointillism here offset by the piano's innate resonance.Violinist Adrianne Munden-Dixon and pianist Mayumi Tsuchida return with, Carnal (2019). Here the violin's smudge-like motifs, scratchy and pointy, are answered by calmer piano chords as if the nervy one is being quietened by the other. The is a sense of emotionalism and innate narrative here, that makes the music move away from its Webern-like roots. The ensemble Nu Quintet features on, Ficción (2021) for woodwind […]
2024-01-13 03:01:35
Morton Feldman, born on January 12 1926, in New York, N.Y., U.S.A., was an avant-garde composer. He
2024-01-04 04:30:00
Igor Levit: Fantasia (CD Review)
[…] When the pandemic shut things down back in 2020, for example, he began posting a series of videos on Twitter that featured his playing of a variety of works for piano. His recordings have typically been multi-disc releases with some sort of unifying theme. We have reviewed several of those recordings in the past, starting with Encounter, a two-CD set that saw Levit playing music by Busoni (his arrangements of works by Bach and Brahms), Reger, and Morton Feldman (you can read that review here). Later in 2021, we reviewed his album titled On DSCH, another two-CD set that includes the 24 Preludes and Fuguesby Shostakovich plus the fascinating Passacaglia on DSCH by the late Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015) (that review can be found here). Then late in 2022 we reviewed another two-CD recording by Levit, this one titled Tristan, which as you might expect from the title contained some music by Wagner along with some Liszt, Henze, […]
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