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2024-03-11 08:58:00
Premiere of Eleanor Alberga's piano concerto, commissioned by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for Leeds Piano Competition winner Alim Beisembayev
Alim Beisembayev (Photo: Nabin Maharjan)Kazakhstan-born pianist Alim Beisembayev won First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competition in September 2021, along with the medici.tv Audience Prize and a new prize, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Prize for contemporary performance. This led the orchestra to commission a new work especially for Beisembayev, from the eminent Jamaican-born British composer, Eleanor Alberga, who will also be a Jury member of the 2024 Competition later this year.Alberga's Piano Concerto will be premiered by Alim Beisembayev with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Domingo Hindoyan on 25 April 2024 at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool as part of a concert that includes a suite from Roussel's Bacchus and Ariadne and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.Alberga's concerto, her first piano concerto, has grown from solo works for piano and thematically draws on her life story. I chatted to Eleanor Alberga back in 2022 about her music and her Jamaican heritage, […]
2024-03-02 09:03:00
Shamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change
[…] emotional extremes in Donizetti's serious operas, so a more expressionist production works well. When we spoke, David was in the middle of five performances of Jonathan Dove's Marx in London, in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Scottish Opera is not able to take the production to Inverness or Aberdeen because the orchestra (with triple woodwind and lots of percussion) is too large for the theatres there. Coming up on 16 March, he also has a concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, whilst his Summer is still somewhat up in the air. But in the Autumn he will be returning to; 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands for the International Vocal Competition. He has also been playing the piano a lot, and gave a two-piano recital with a pupil, performing music by Mozart, Schumann and Saint-Saens's Variations on a Theme by Beethoven, plus a paraphrase on Offenbach's Robinson Crusoe. (And they will be giving a piano […]
2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
Frank Bridge - The Sea:01 - 04 The Sea. Suite [20'41]05 Summer. Tone Poem [9'37]06 Cherry Ripe [3'23]07 Enter Spring. Rhapsody [21'22]08 Lament [4'27]Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesEMI CDM5658552 [recorded July 1975; CD issued 1989][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UKRecording engineer: John Kurlander; Producer: John WillanMany of the recordings in my occasional posts were ripped in the late nineties or early noughties but I then had no means of scanning the artwork. Now it seems increasingly possible to download good artwork from the internet making posting of the recordings a possibility. The above recording and the next are cases in point. I am indebted to friend Danse de Puck for allowing me to use her artwork scans that appeared in a post on a private blog for the next recording.Ralph Vaughan Williams:01 - 09 Job. A Masque for Dancing * […]
2024-01-12 15:15:17
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