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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Keith Jarrett’s Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Elegant, But Puzzling
US jazz pianist Keith Jarrett does not play by the normal rules of engagement in his release of sonatas by C.P.E. Bach - recorded three decades ago.
2023-11-30 12:42:00
Recent Releases No. 67 (CD Reviews)
by Karl NehringTractus. Arvo Pärt: Littlemore Tractus; Greater Antiphons I-VII; Cantique des degrés; Sequentia; L’abbé Agathon;These Words…; Veni creator; Vater unser. Maria Listra, soprano; Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Tallinn Chamber Orchestra; Tönu Kaljuste, conductor. ECM New Series 2800 485 9166Recorded in Tallinn’s Methodist Church last year, Tractus extends the line of Arvo Pärt albums on the ECM label that began with Tabula rasa in 1984, the recording which first brought Pärt’s music to widespread awareness. I was in graduate school back then, working weekends as a security guard at a factory. Late one night as I drove from the main plant to check on an off-site location while listening to classical music on WOSU-FM, they played music from that album, which featured not only classical violinist Gidon Kremer but also jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. I was transfixed by Pårt’s music, becoming an immediate fan. I purchased the CD that very week and went on to acquire dozens more over the next four […]
2023-10-25 07:46:00
Pianist Piers Lane joins Norwich-based orchestra, the Academy of St Thomas for celebrations of their Golden Jubilee
[…] concert held in St Thomas’ Church, Norwich, has been included in every subsequent anniversary concert performed at St Andrew’s Hall. It was flag-waving time at St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, on Saturday 21 October 2023 when Benjamin Pope, greeted by a big round of applause from a packed and excited house, took to the podium to conduct the Academy of St Thomas, led by Benjamin Lowe, in their Golden Jubilee concert generously sponsored by Hilary and Lewis Jarrett. Therefore, founded in 1973 by Ivan Cane, whose son, Andrew, leads the viola section, AST grew out of a handful of players who had roots in the old Norfolk County Youth Orchestra of the 1970s. For their Golden Jubilee programme included RVW's Tallis Fantasia and Mozart's Symphony No.40, and they were joined by pianist Piers Lane for Beethoven's Emperor Concerto.The programme opened in a blaze of glory with Beethoven dominating the first half with the adventurous […]
2023-09-02 11:00:03
A Wuthering Heights opera by the man who scored Psycho and The Birds is well worth a listen, while the American piano great makes CPE his own• Best known for his film scores for Alfred Hitchcock, including Vertigo, Psycho and The Birds, Bernard Herrmann (1911-75) had parallel ambitions to write music for performance away from the silver screen. His three-and-a-half-hour opera based on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, completed in 1951, was not staged in his lifetime. He partly funded the only recording of it. Now the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Chandos), conducted by Mario Venzago, have recorded an
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