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2023-10-31 15:57:47
This month, we mark the centenary of one of music’s most iconic figures. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Maria Callas, Ashutosh Khandekar examines those special qualities that set the Greek soprano apart from all others. Another feature that should make you tick is Misha Donat‘s profile of Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, the madcap inventor of the metronome and much besides. Elsewhere, Simon Heighes has a listen to the first-ever near-complete recording of Handel’s Messiah, made in 1906. And Tom Stewart learns how the Glyndebourne Academy is providing rare opportunities to enter the world of opera. Owen Mortimer finds out how the Symphony Orchestra of India is rapidly winning fans at home and abroad, and, for this month’s BBC Music Magazine interview, conductor Kirill Karabits talks to Rebecca Franks on the eve of his final season in Bournemouth. Simon Broughton is off to Budapest to get a look […]
2023-10-27 00:00:00
Dohnanyi, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Rawsthorne and British Trombone Concertos (Christian Lindberg, Malcolm Sargent et al)
[…] in an even shorter measure download and with a different combination of works. The other two are from Pye Records (originally issued on a 7 inch EP, CEM 36010), which was later subsumed into EMI. Just the four Bagatelles, played by Denis Matthews, are left out in the cold.Alan Rawsthorne:01 - 07 Practical Cats. Entertainment for speaker and orchestra (1954) * [23'48]08 Overture. Street Corner (1944) [5'32]09 - 12 Madame Chrysanthème. Ballet Suite (1957) [8'38]Robert Donat- speaker, Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Alan Rawsthorne *; Pro Arte Orchestra conducted by Alan RawsthorneWarner Music 9029653728 [recorded September & December 1954 for EMI* and 1958 for Pye Records; download released 2021][digital download; flacs, cover scan only]Recording venues: Kingsway Hall (orchestra) & Abbey Road Studios (speaker) * and Walthamstow Assembly Hall, LondonRecording engineers: Douglas Larter (orchestra) & Francis Dillnutt (speaker) * and Bob Auger.Producers: Walter Legge (orchestra) & Alan Rawsthorne (speaker) * and Douglas […]
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Faces of classical music
2020-02-02 16:37:00
The best new classical albums: January 2020
[…] of Brahms's late piano works on record, one that stands head and shoulders above most contenders in an ever-growing catalogue. I always revel in the prospect of a new disc by Stephen Hough. The superlative piano-playing aside, the whole presentation is so thoughtful: the choice of cover illustration, the imaginative programming (remember his Janáček and Scriabin pairing) and his essays or booklet contributions. In this case the booklet notes are largely a reprint of Misha Donat's text for Hyperion's previous recording with Garrick Ohlsson but they are crowned by a short yet highly charged note from Hough. And the quietly evocative atmosphere of Vilhelm Hammershøi's painting on the cover sets the scene for what is inside. So much to enjoy, even before hearing a note.The picture and Hough's words are key to understanding his approach to these so often played works, though admittedly his ravishing colouristic palette has no analogy […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-09-28 11:06:00
Cosmos Quartet plays Joseph Haydn (String Quartet in E flat major, Op.64 No.6), Béla Bartók (String Quartet No.3, Sz.85) & Johannes Brahms (String Quartet No.3, Op.67) – 8th International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition 2019
[…] not to sound too sedate.) Nor is its initial theme the only material from the first movement to make a return at this point: the passage also recalls a mysterious moment in the minor that in the opening movement had heralded the arrival of the second subject. In the closing bars, the variation theme and the first movement's "hunting" subject are combined with deceptive ease, as though to highlight the hitherto hidden kinship between them.Source: Misha Donat (hyperion-records.co.uk) More photos
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