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2024-03-21 10:56:00
For young classical audiences the sound is the message
In David Hepworth's recommended history of EMI's Abbey Road studios he makes an observation that may just hold the key to unlocking the new younger audience that classical music has sought for so long in vain. Writing about the increasing importance of pop music in late 1950s Hepworth explains that "whereas the people working in classical music wanted to record music, the people in pop increasingly wanted to record sounds". The ultimate example of studio-created sound taking priority over music culminated in the seminal “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" which took five-and-a-half months of sound-shaping at Abbey Road for the album's13 tracks to be completed. Classical dogma dictates that the music takes priority - note perfect interpretations, historically informed performances, pedigree of the musician, concert hall etiquette etc. In the classical world sound is the servant of music, as in the never-ending search for the acoustically perfect concert […]
2021-11-27 10:26:54
[…] jeux d'esprit to late, late masterworks: Saint-Saens' chamber music with winds is well-worth exploring - record review A disc to make us re-consider: Peter Warlock Songbook from Luci Briginshaw and Eleanor Meynell - record review From The Poppy to Hit Her on the Bum: Ensemble Hesperi's debut disc, Full of the Highland Humours - record review Inspired by the work of sculptor Naum Gabo, I chat to Alex Groves about his latest music, as well as creating pieces inspired by Barbara Hepworth, and the importance of his concert series, Solo - interview Home
2021-11-26 10:14:23
A tremendous achievement: premiere of Cheryl Frances-Hoad's 'Scenes from the Wild' as part of City of London Sinfonia's 50th birthday celebrations
[…] jeux d'esprit to late, late masterworks: Saint-Saens' chamber music with winds is well-worth exploring - record review A disc to make us re-consider: Peter Warlock Songbook from Luci Briginshaw and Eleanor Meynell - record review From The Poppy to Hit Her on the Bum: Ensemble Hesperi's debut disc, Full of the Highland Humours - record review Inspired by the work of sculptor Naum Gabo, I chat to Alex Groves about his latest music, as well as creating pieces inspired by Barbara Hepworth, and the importance of his concert series, Solo - interview Intimate and intense: Mahler with just voice and piano, Alice Coote, Stuart Jackson and Julius Drake at Temple Song - concert review Home
2021-11-26 09:07:05
How I wonder what you are: RR Bennett, Hindemith, RVW, Schubert, Mussorgsky, Barber, and Alex Groves at Re-Sung
[…] jeux d'esprit to late, late masterworks: Saint-Saens' chamber music with winds is well-worth exploring - record review A disc to make us re-consider: Peter Warlock Songbook from Luci Briginshaw and Eleanor Meynell - record review From The Poppy to Hit Her on the Bum: Ensemble Hesperi's debut disc, Full of the Highland Humours - record review Inspired by the work of sculptor Naum Gabo, I chat to Alex Groves about his latest music, as well as creating pieces inspired by Barbara Hepworth, and the importance of his concert series, Solo - interview Intimate and intense: Mahler with just voice and piano, Alice Coote, Stuart Jackson and Julius Drake at Temple Song - concert review Recycle, re-use, re-think: Dai Fujikura's latest disc Glorious Clouds - record review Home
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