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2019-03-10 00:00:00
British Music - Sir Charles Groves - 24 CDs
[…] and Havergal Brian’s characteristic pair of Symphonies 8 and 9 (CD 16) receive commanding performances. The Frank Bridge disc contains five works including his two masterworks The Sea (suite) and Enter Spring (rhapsody) (CD 17) which are engaging and revealing. Bliss’s Morning Heroes (CD 18) a choral symphony for orator, chorus and orchestra is a much underrated work with a powerful message of the horrors of war. Dedicated ‘To the Memory of my brother Francis Kennard Bliss and all other Comrades killed in battle’ Bliss sets poems by Homer, Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, Li Tai Po and Robert Nichols. The part for speaker, taken by John Westbrook, tends to make this intensely moving score sound unfashionable today.Especially successful is the disc (CD 20) titled "Popular Music of William Walton". This comprises a number of Walton’s shorter orchestral works commencing with a tremendously exciting account of Spitfire: Prelude and Fugue, Scapino: […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-01-25 15:04:15
Young New York City Ballet Corps Members Ask Their Biggest Questions, And Two Company Veterans Answer Them
NYCB principal Abi Stafford asked three members of the company’s newest batch of corps dancers — Mira Nadon, Kennard Henson, and Gabriella Domini — what they wanted to know, then got answers from Jared Angle and Maria Kowroski. — Dance Magazine
2018-10-31 00:55:00
[…] of commemorating these men in poetry and music. A short, chaotic "war" section then gives way to a beautifully expansive theme, which might evoke a glorious dawn after a night of horror. It's Elgarian in its glory, but also Gurneyesque. In this new dawn, though time moves on, Nature returns, and possibly heals. The recommended recording is on Chandos's CD British Tone Poems, conducted by Rumon Gamba. Arthur and Kennard Bliss Morning Heroes (1930) isn't neglected but performances are rare because it's hard to pull off a symphony on this scale. Much depends on the narrator, who has almost as much to do as the orchestra. Fottunately the narrator here was Samuel West who narrates on Andrew Davis' s recording with the BBC SO for Chandos. The title "Morning Heroes" comes from the final movement where three different poems are […]
2015-08-26 21:24:12
Ahead of their opening concert on Friday September 18, we meet the 33 members of the orchestra to find out more about them. I went to a concert with my mum.
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