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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-12 18:22:30
Celebrating Lutheran Master’s 339th Birthday
[…] Leilehua Lanzilotti, and Grimalkin (2023) by Will Stackpole, the latter written especially for Rothfritz and inspired by the Bach/Hindemith pairing. Until recently, Bach on piano has not typically been a BBB feature, as Boston audiences typically prefer historically-informed performances on harpsichord or clavichord. Nevertheless, the Bach Birthday has featured piano performances in the last three years: in 2021 professor Noam Elkies played a transcription of the first Brandenburg concerto; in 2022 April Sun and Andrus Madsen performed Rheinberger’s transcription of the Goldberg Variations on two authentic 19th-century grand pianos; and last year Artem Belogurov performed Bach on a reconstruction of a Baroque piano. Such historically-informed performance of Bach on piano is becoming more in vogue, and the Bach Birthday is pleased to be a part of the movement towards a broader understanding of historical performance. This year, pianist Calvin Kotrba will continue the perform Bach’s French Suite No. 6 in […]
2023-11-03 11:59:00
Fairy Tales: Elisabeth Turmo and Elena Toponogova explore lesser-known Norwegian and Russian repertoire
Norwegian violinist Elisabeth Turmo and her duo-partner Elena Toponogova are releasing a new disc on the Quartz label, Fairy Tales, featuring a range of rarely performed fairy-tale-inspired pieces by Norwegian and Russian composers. The two are launching the disc at the 1910 Arts Club on 16 November 2023 [further details] when they will be performing music from the album. The Norwegian and Russian repertoire represents the interests of the two performers and means that Turmo will not just be playing the violin but also the Hardanger fiddle, Norway's national instrument.The disc features Norwegian music by Ole Bull (1810-1880), Johan Halvorsen (1864-1965), Trygve Madsen (born 1940), and Anders Viken (1898-1977) mixing classical repertoire with that of folk fiddlers. The interest of the Russian strand must inevitably centre two pieces by Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) based on Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherazade, but there is also the Fantasy on themes from Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Golden Cockerel by Efrem Zimbalist (1889-1985), […]
2023-02-24 00:00:00
Music for Brass by New Zealand, Nordic and British Composers (National Youth Brass of NZ, Scandinavian Brass & Besses o' th' Barn Bands)
[…] they need not fear comparison with the best of the European brass bands. If you are doubtful, do sample Gareth Farr's Waipiro (Waipiro being a Bay on the East Cape of the North Island; north of the better known Tokomaru Bay). Both the East Cape and Hawke's Bay areas were devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle earlier this month.Brass Festival:01 Bengt Hallberg: Blacksmith's Tune [4'43]02 - 04 Vagn Holmboe: Concerto for Brass, op.157 [10'44]05 - 07 Trygve Madsen: Divertimento for Brass and Percussion, op.47 [15'31]08 Edvard Grieg (arr. G Emerson): Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak [5'40]09 Atso Almila: Te Pa Te Pa, op.26 [8'31]10 - 12 Christer Danielsson: Suite No.3 for Brass and Percussion [10'49]13 Trygve Madsen: Per the Fiddler. Norwegian Folk Song [2'26]The Scandinavian Brass Ensemble conducted by Jorma PanulaBIS CD265 [recorded May and June 1985; issued 1985][digital download; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]Recording venue: Concert Hall, Gothenburg, […]
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