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2024-01-24 07:45:00
NMC Recordings celebrates 35 years of supporting composers
Imogen Holst and Colin Matthews in 19842024 sees NMC celebrating its 35th birthday with a release schedule that continues to do what the label was founded to, supporting composers. 2024 will see new debut albums from Freya Waley-Cohen, Tom Coult, Lisa Illean, and Richard Baker, partnership projects with National Youth Choir and Philharmonia, and new collaboration with Drake Music Scotland, the Disabled Artist Network and Tŷ Cerdd.NMC will also be recording a new album of Imogen Holst's previously unreleased works, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers, conducted by Alice Farnham. And on 3 July 2024, NMC joins forces with Spitalfields Festival for a special birthday concert celebrating 35 years of NMC.Composer Colin Matthews founded NMC in 1989 to remedy the almost non-existent representation of living British composers in the recording catalogues of major labels at the time. NMC’s work supporting the rich breadth of compositional talent from Britain and Ireland […]
2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
[…] Britten’s opera Albert Herring at the Jubilee Hall and the first performance of his cantata Saint Nicolas at the Parish Church with a trio of lectures delivered by E.M. Forster on George Crabbe, Tyrone Guthrie on theatre and Sir Kenneth Clark on East Anglian painters. Following the deaths of Britten and Pears the artistic direction fell to a coterie of musicians who knew both men well including conductors Philip Ledger and Steuart Bedford and composers Colin Matthews and Oliver Knussen. However, a big event in 2013 (Britten’s centenary year) centred on Peter Grimes which was miraculously and successfully staged on Aldeburgh beach with the festival then under the direction of Jonathan Reekie while his successor, Roger Wright, who has been at the crease enjoying a terrific innings for the past decade, retires after this festival. The 2019 festival presented the UK première of the chamber opera The Hunting Gun by Thomas Larcher [see […]
2023-10-27 00:00:00
Dohnanyi, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Rawsthorne and British Trombone Concertos (Christian Lindberg, Malcolm Sargent et al)
British Trombone Concertos:01 - 03 Gordon Jacob: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (1955) [19'56]04 - 06 Elgar Howarth: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (1958) [20'04]07 - 08 Derek Bourgois: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, op.114 (1988) [20'34]Christian Lindberg- trombone, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Grant LlewellynBIS CD-658 [recorded November & December 1993; CD issued 1994][digital-download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, WalesRecording engineer: Ingo Petry; Producer: Robert SuffDerek Bourgeois' concerto was written for Christian Lindberg and in 1989 he recorded the version with Wind Band [op.114b] for the short-lived British label, LDR - subsequently reissued by Albany Records. That recording was recently posted on the Susato blog.Alan Rawsthorne:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No. 1 (rev. 1942) * [18'36]04 - 07 Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951) ^ [27'40]Moura Lympany- piano, Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Menges; Denis Matthews- piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm SargentWarner […]
2023-10-13 00:00:00
Britten, Chausson, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Rubbra, Schumann et al: Orchestral & Vocal Works (Malcolm Sargent et al)
[…] booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool *, Queen's Hall ^ and Abbey Road Studios ~, LondonRecording engineers and Producers: not givenRecordings from the collection of Edward Johnson remastered by Peter Reynolds.Britten and Rubbra Piano Concertos:01 - 03 Edmund Rubbra: Piano Concerto in G major, op.85 * [27'25]04 - 05 Benjamin Britten: Prelude and Fugue for 18-part string orchestra, op.29 ^ [9'05]06 - 09 Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto in 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 […]
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