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2023-09-08 15:32:06
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2023-09-07 17:15:21
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2022-04-07 12:51:48
The Belcea Quartet comprises violinists Corina Belcea and Axel Schacher, violist Krzysztof Chorzelski, and cellist Antoine Lederlin. Between 2017 and 2020, the quartet was Ensemble-in-Residence of Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal — where they have since performed regularly. They have also been part of a string quartet cycle at Vienna Konzerthaus since 2010. For their […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-03-26 12:00:55
The Scottish tenor’s rousing take on Vaughan Williams’s AE Housman-inspired cycle; and the foursome-turned-sextet do justice to Brahms’s early works • The lost-youth mood of AE Housman’s collection of poems A Shropshire Lad (1896) has proved an irresistible source for composers – George Butterworth, John Ireland, Lennox Berkeley among many. Best known is Vaughan Williams’s cycle of six, On Wenlock Edge (1909) for tenor, piano and string quartet. It gives the title to On Wenlock Edge & Other Songs, Nicky Spence’s superb Vaughan Williams disc (Hyperion), also featuring Four Hymns, The House of Life and three folk songs. He has excellent partners in the pianist Julius Drake, viola player Timothy Ridout and the Piatti Quartet. The Scottish tenor’s gift for combining pure tone with direct, daring expression makes this a covetable disc (even with so many available versions out there, including John Mark Ainsley’s, also on Hyperion). In Is My […]