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2024-05-10 00:00:00
Some BBC Broadcast Concert Recordings [Part One]
Darius Milhaud:01 - 03 Érik Satie (arr. D Milhaud): Jack in the Box [6'46]04 - 07 Musique pour l'Indiana, op.418 [24'10]08 - 11 Symphony No.10, op.382 [23'12]12 L'homme et son desir. Ballet music, op.48 * [19'18]Marion Dodd- soprano, Yvonne Newman- mezzo, David Barrett- tenor, Anthony Holt- baritone *; BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Darius MilhaudBBC Radio Classics 15656 91512 [recorded September 1969 and September 1970; issued 1996][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: BBC Maida Vale Studios, London.Recording engineers: not given; Producer: John Douglas Dodd.As mentioned in earlier posts, there are a lot of CD issues from the 1990s and early 2000s that I have ripped but without any artwork. Most of this post is from that collection, now supported by artwork sourced from the internet (archive.org and others).Alan Rawsthorne and Robert Simpson:01 - 04 Alan Rawsthorne: Piano Concerto No.2 [28'36]05 - 07 Alan Rawsthorne: Concerto for Two Pianos *[18'47]08 […]
2024-04-02 18:29:25
Wicked GOAT – Stories
On Sunday, March 24, 2024 the Pasadena Conservatory of Music presented the second in this season’s Wicked GOAT concert series of Contemporary Music for Young People. The concert is free to the Conservatory community and every seat in Barrett Hall was filled with eager faces and proud parents. The theme for this occasion was Stories […]
2024-03-11 07:22:24
Founded in 1988 by Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, The New York Festival of Song’s concerts, recordings, and commissioned projects embrace the widest range of song, from classical and modern to popular genres. They also have provided a showcase for emerging and established singers alike. The performances gathered for what hopefully will be the first […]
2024-02-08 08:14:00
Sitting in a concert hall is not a great place to have a musical experience: Frederick Waxman introduces Our Mother, Figure's dramatic staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
This is my body Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri from Figure at the Swiss Church in 2023The ensemble Figure, co-artistic directors Frederick Waxman and Philip Barrett, has had some considerable success with its stagings at Opera Holland Park of Handel's Serse (in 2022) and Shakespeare/Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream (in 2023), but last year the company also created a remarkable immersive staging Buxtehude's sacred cantata sequence Membra Jesu Nostri [see my review].From 20 to 23 March 2024 they will be presenting Our Mother at Stone Nest. This will be a dramatised staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with additional music by Alex Mills. Directed by Sophie Daneman, the staging will be performed by women of multiple generations, Dame Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce and Katie MacDonald.When I chatted to Frederick Waxman about the production he commented that whilst everyone knows the first 20 seconds or so of Pergolesi's music, they wanted to […]
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