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Slowly, through a process of osmosis, the piece and I are slowly becoming acquainted: horn player, Ben Goldscheider on Gavin Higgins' new Horn Concerto
Ben GoldscheiderComposer Gavin Higgins comes from a long lineage of working-class brass band musicians dating back to 1895 and his passion for this heritage has resulted in a number of vigorous, daring works for brass, including his Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra, which won a 2023 RPS award and a South Bank Sky Arts award. Gavin Higgins' instrument is the French Horn and he has written a new Horn Concerto (his first solo work for the instrument) for horn player Ben Goldscheider. Gavin Higgins is composer-in-association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Ben Goldscheider will join Jaime Martin and the orchestra to premiere Gavin Higgins' Horn Concerto on Saturday 13 January 2024 at Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, with a second performance on Sunday 14 January 2024 at St David's Hall in Cardiff [further details]. The London premiere of the work will be on 7 February at Cadogan Hall, when Ben Goldscheider joins the […]
2023-10-27 00:00:00
Dohnanyi, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Rawsthorne and British Trombone Concertos (Christian Lindberg, Malcolm Sargent et al)
British Trombone Concertos:01 - 03 Gordon Jacob: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (1955) [19'56]04 - 06 Elgar Howarth: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (1958) [20'04]07 - 08 Derek Bourgois: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, op.114 (1988) [20'34]Christian Lindberg- trombone, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Grant LlewellynBIS CD-658 [recorded November & December 1993; CD issued 1994][digital-download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, WalesRecording engineer: Ingo Petry; Producer: Robert SuffDerek Bourgeois' concerto was written for Christian Lindberg and in 1989 he recorded the version with Wind Band [op.114b] for the short-lived British label, LDR - subsequently reissued by Albany Records. That recording was recently posted on the Susato blog.Alan Rawsthorne:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No. 1 (rev. 1942) * [18'36]04 - 07 Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951) ^ [27'40]Moura Lympany- piano, Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Menges; Denis Matthews- piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm SargentWarner […]
2023-09-25 11:03:00
Michael Stimpson's Dylan at the poet's birthplace in honour of 70th anniversary of his death
Dylan Thomas in New York in 1952Dylan Thomas died on the 9 November 1953 and in honour of the 70th anniversary of his death, the Dylan Thomas Birthplace Trust is presenting an immersive performance of Stimpson's captivating song cycle, Dylan on Saturday 4 November 2023 at Dylan Thomas' historic Swansea birthplace. The event will blend spoken excerpts and musical settings, featuring the baritone Gareth Brynmor John and harpist Alis Huws. The event will also be live-streamed on World of Sound.Stimpson's song-cycle Dylan was premiered in 2003 in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea by Jeremy Huw Williams and Sioned Williams. The work combines spoken excerpts and musical settings of Thomas's poems, letters, stories and, of course, Under Milk Wood, into a ruminative and evocative monodrama.There are further performances of Dylan in New York, where the poet's life came to an end, at Rutgers Presbyterian Church on 11 November, home of The Welsh Congregation of New York, and […]
2023-05-19 00:00:00
Box of Delights and Bliss, Delius and Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works (Barry Wordsworth et al)
[…] 1988 and August & September 1989; CD issued 2007][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Walthamstow Town Hall and Henry Wood Hall, London.Recording engineers: John Dunkerley and not stated^; Producers: Andrew Cornall and not stated^Arthur Bliss:01 - 04 A Colour Symphony [32'30]05 - 18 Metamorphic Variations [37'40]BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Barry WordsworthNimbus NI5294 [recorded in January 1991; CD issued 1991][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet derived from archive.org]Recording venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Wales.Recording engineer & Producer: not given.This was the first commercial recording of Bliss' last orchestral work Metamorphic Variations and, as far as I know, the only following recording so far is the Naxos issue with David Lloyd-Jones and the Bournemouth Symphony.Frederick Delius:01 A Village Romeo and Juliet - The Walk to the Paradise Garden [10'11]02 Brigg Fair [14'51]03 Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - No. 1, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in […]
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