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2023-12-22 00:00:00
Vaughan Williams Christmas Music, Christmas Baroque, Orchestral Christmas & On Chritmas Night (Richard Hickox, Marc Taddei, Charles Gerhardt & Andrew Nethsingha)
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Christmas Music:01 Fantasia on Christmas Carols (composer's arrangement for baritone, choir, organ and strings) ^ [12'19]02 - 16 On Christmas Night. A Masque, after Dickens' A Christmas Carol [28'08]17 - 24 The First Nowell. A Nativity Play * [29'09]Roderick Williams- baritone; Sarah Fox- soprano *; Joseph Cullen- organ ^; Joyful Company of Singers; City of London Sinfonia conducted by Richard HickoxChandos CHAN10385 [recorded December 2005; issued 2006][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, LondonRecording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian CouzensChristmas Baroque:Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. J Kuhnau): Sinfonia from Cantata No. 142, BWV 142 [1'14]Giuseppi Torelli: Concerto di Pastorale, op.8 no.6 [5'15]Francesco Manfredini: Sinfonia Pastorale, op.2 no.12 [6'17]Michel-Richard de Lalande: Simphonie de Noëls [5'12]Giovanni Ferrandini: Sinfonia Pastorale [8'38]Michael Haydn: Pastorello, P.91 [9'22]Johann Stamitz: Sinfonia Patorale, op.4 no.2 [12'22]François-Joseph Gossec: Suite de Noëls [5'20]George Frideric Handel: Pifa from Messiah, HWV 56 [2'25]Giuseppe Valentini: […]
2023-12-15 08:34:00
A remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza bring a lovely sense of dialogue to their celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon
Members of Vache Baroque and lutenist Kristiina Watt rehearsing at St John's Smith Square (Photo: The Musicians' Photographer)A Baroque Hanukkah: Salmone Rossi, Thomas Campion, Heinrich Schütz, John Farmer, Francesco Cavalli, Henry Purcell, Thomas Ravenscroft, Thomas Weelkes; Vache Baroque, La Vaghezza; St John's Smith SquareReviewed 13 December 2023The culmination of Vache Baroque's celebrations of Salomone Rossi paired his Hebrew-texted psalm settings with music of his contemporaries in wonderfully engaged performances highlighting Rossi's distinctive place in the musical universeIn 1623, the Italian Jewish violinist and composer, Salomone Rossi, achieved an ambition that had been germinating since around 1610, when he published, השירים אשר לשלמה (Hashirim Asher leShlomo, The Songs of Solomon), a collection of Jewish liturgical texts in Hebrew set to polyphonic music in the modern Baroque tradition with little connection to the tradition of Jewish cantorial music. The result is a work of remarkable cultural synthesis. The name is also a […]
2023-12-14 07:37:00
Arctic saxophone: three imaginative & engaging new concertos from Ola Asdahl Rokkones, Arktisk Filharmoni & Per Kristian Skalstad
Alexander Aarøen: The Heart, It Soars, Alexander Manotskov: Seven Portraits, Terje Bjørklund: Arctic Lines; Ola Asdahl Rokkones, Arktisk Filharmoni, Per Kristian Skalstad; LAWOReviewed 13 December 2023Three new saxophone concertos with Arctic inspirations from soloist and orchestra based in the region, terrific, engaging, imaginative new music in fine performancesOla Asdahl Rokkones is a saxophonist based in the city of Tromsø in North Norway, about 500 km north of the Arctic Circle and about 2000 km south of the North Pole. For this disc from LAWO Classics, Rokkones has collaborated with the Tromsø-based Arktisk Filharmoni (the Arctic Philharmonic), and conductor Per Kristian Skalstad, for disc of concertos for saxophone and orchestra. The three concertos were all commissioned by Rokkones and have Artic links, two composers are Norwegian, Alexander Aarøen and Terje Bjørklund, both originating from Northern Norway, and the third composer is Russian, Alexander Manotskov, and took his inspiration from the Russian city of Arkhangelsk.In […]
2023-12-13 09:28:00
Surrender to the gentle magic: Benjamin Tassie combines live-performance & field recording focusing on water-powered instruments to remarkably poetic effect
Benjamin Tassie; A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time; Benjamin Tassie, Sam Underwood, Rebecca Lee, Rob Bental; Birmingham Record CompanyReviewed 13 December 2023Part live-performance, part-field recording, this disc captures the poetic interaction between natural landscape and ancient man-made sounds, featuring three waterpowered instruments The Rivelin Valley in Sheffield was once a thriving hub of water-powered industry, and even today the ruins of twenty watermills and twenty-one mill dams can be found along the river’s length, ghosts of Sheffield’s industrial past that have become haven for wildlife.This new disc from Birmingham Record Company, A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time, features music by Benjamin Tassie that doesn't just evoke this landscape, instead Tassie's pieces were produced with the landscape, in dialogue with the river. The album features three new water-powered instruments designed and built by Tassie with instrument maker Sam Underwood. A harpsichord, hurdy gurdy, and a […]
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