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2023-11-17 05:00:00
Bainbridge, Lloyd, Simpson, Vaughan Williams, Welsh Favourites & Tuba Concertos (Horenstein, Penny, Tilson Thomas et al)
Simon Bainbridge (1952-2021) - Orchestral Works:01 Fantasia for Double Orchestra * (1984) [18'19]02 - 03 Viola Concerto (1976) ^ [27'32]04 Concertante in moto perpetuo (1983) ~ [7'56]BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Bainbridge *; Walter Trampler-viola, London Sinfonietta conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas ^; Composers Ensemble conducted by Simon Bainbridge (Nicholas Daniel- oboe, Kathryn Lukas- flute, Joy Farrall- clarinet, Nigel Black- horn, Catherine Edwards- piano, Jacqueline Shave & Patrick Kiernan- violins, Katie Wilkinson- viola, Robert Irvine- cello, Neil Tarlton- double bass) ~NMC NMCD126 [recorded May 1982^, December 1989* and March 1990~; originally issued on CD by Murray Khouri's Continuum label in 1990, reissued by NMC in 2006][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Barking Town Hall*, Watford Town Hall^, Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, LondonRecording engineers: Mike Skeet *~ and Bob Auger^; Producers: Murray Khouri*, Antony Hodgson^, Simon Bainbridge & Nicholas Daniel~November Journeys:01 Paul Drayton (1944-): Tom Pellow's March […]
2022-09-17 13:17:00
To bear witness and build solidarity: Luigi Nono and the creative imperative in Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto in Auschwitz and Quando stanno morendo
Human provocation In a 1958 article on Luciano Berio for the Darmstadt Summer School’s house journal Die Reihe, Piero Santi outlined the post-war Italian avant-garde’s guiding principles: Everybody’s purpose is authentic organization of the world of sound, which is finally to be freed from […] external compulsion […]. Thus, in the years after World War II, new Italian music, too, had a role marked out. Naturally, it profited from study of hitherto unavailable [modernist] works, and from insights gained elsewhere, but the natural reaction was against our most recent past. To put it more bluntly: there was a reaction against ‘expression at all costs’, against rhetoric (veiled to a greater or lesser degree), against sentimentality which no longer dared to express itself melodramatically, unreservedly.Politics and aesthetics are interrelated, even identified, more strongly than might have been the case in Germany or France, although everywhere the fiction of a 1945 ‘Zero […]
2022-06-22 06:42:44
The Lost Art of Frances Cole: recordings from the 1970s provide a glimpse of the art of the Black American harpsichordist
The Lost Art of Frances Cole: Bach, Scarlatti, Rameau, Gottschalk, Bartok, Ligeti, Howard Swanson; Frances Cole, ParnassusReviewed 21 June 2021 (★★★)Live recordings of a brilliantly eclectic recital by the Black American harpsichordist Frances Cole whose early death deprived us of a striking talentThe American harpsichordist Frances Cole (1937-1983) is not a particularly well-known name and her early death at the age of 45, after a long illness, did not help. Cole’s only commercial recording used her in a supporting role, Songs of Early Americans, featuring baritone Gordon Myers (Golden Crest RE 7020). But now the producer Leslie Gerber has resurrected private recordings that Cole made at Westminster Choir College in Princeton where she taught.The Lost Art of Frances Cole on Parnassus Records' Black Swans (an imprint showcasing rare classical recordings by Black artists) features Frances Cole in a wide-ranging recital of music by Bach, Scarlatti, Rameau, Gottschalk, Bartok, Ligeti and Howard Swanson, all recorded […]
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