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2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No.2 in G major, op.44 (original version) [46'45]04 Piano Concerto No.3 in E-flat major, op.75 [16'07]Peter Donohoe- piano, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf BarshaiEMI CDC749940-2 [recorded August 1986 and July & August 1987; issued 1990][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Dorset, UKRecording engineers: Mike Clements and Mike Hatch; Producer: Andrew KeenerPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:01 - 02 Concert Fantasia op.56 [27'52]03 - 05 Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, op.23 [36'03]Peter Donohoe- piano, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf BarshaiEMI CDC749939-2 [recorded July & August 1989 and July 1988; issued 1990][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Dorset, UKRecording engineers: Mike Clements and Mike Hatch; Producer: Andrew KeenerRachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Borodin:01 Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paginini, op.43 ^ [23'33]02 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Waltz from 'Swan Lake, Act 1' [7'37]03 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: […]
2024-01-29 10:55:10
Barbican, LondonAntonio Pappano conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and an excellent lineup of soloists in this superbly detailed and rousing performanceThere are moments in Mendelssohn’s Elijah when the chorus roars suddenly into life, an explosion of massed voices. There are others when a single child’s voice is the counterbalance for the heft of a baritone and orchestra. Or when the whole musical apparatus stops dead as the chorus waits for a divine voice that never comes. Mendelssohn’s oratorio is based on a Bible story – but it’s also unmistakably a piece about the power of sound.Like Elijah’s 1846 world premiere in Birmingham Town Hall, this was a performance without the acoustic plug-in of a cathedral’s vaulted roof. But the stage was stuffed (even more so than the sold-out auditorium) and the opening brass chords immediately set the tone: big, bold, expensively burnished. Not a period instrument in sight, of […]
2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
The Gewandhaus at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig-Mitte with the Mendebrunnen at night (2016)(Photo: Wikimedia - By Ichwarsnur - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0) Come 2025, the Leipzig Gewandhaus will be staging a major international festival in honour of Dimitri Shostakovich marking the 50th anniversary of his deathA frequent visitor to Germany attending Ring cycles here, there and everywhere, Tony Cooper recently enjoyed a short break in Leipzig taking in a concert by the Gewandhausorchester conducted by Alan Gilbert featuring Shostakovich’s 10th symphony whilst also enjoying a rare performance of Thea Musgrave’s opera, Mary, Queen of Scots. With so much musical history and knowledge wrapped up in Leipzig’s cultural portfolio, Tony also took adventurous steps by way of trekking the Leipzig Music Trail stopping off to visit the Bach-Archiv, conveniently situated opposite St Thomas’ Church and the Mendelssohn House Museum not forgetting, of course, the Schumann House while soaking up the city’s illustrious […]
2021-06-09 06:37:07
Past the Stars: BCMG returns to live performance as a full ensemble
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group On 20 June 2021, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) will be making its first appearance as a full ensemble since June 2020, when the group returns to Birmingham Town Hall for Past the Stars. The concert features soprano Patricia Auchterlonie and cellist Ulrich Heinen in excerpts from Param Vir's Wheeling Past the Stars, his 2007 work which sets William Radice's translations of poetry by Rabindranath Tagore. Also in the programme will be the UK premiere of Vir's 2005 ensemble work Hayagriva, named for a horse-headed being known in Indian and Tibetan sacred literature and art as an incarnation of Vishnu associated with knowledge and wisdom, and Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Cantus lambeus, which was premiered by the Nash Ensemble in 2005. Earlier that week, BCMG performs Soliloquies and Dialogues at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (11 June) and CBSO Centre, Birmingham (15 June). The programme features the […]
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