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Music from the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Music from Estonia Vol.1:01 Heino Eller: Elegia for harp and strings (1931) [12'59]02 - 06 Heino Eller: Five Pieces for string orchestra (1953) [15'21]07 Heino Eller: Tone Poem 'Dawn' (1918) [8'10]08 - 10 Kaljo Raid: Symphony No.1 in C minor (1944) [37'31]Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme JärviChandos CHAN8525 [recorded August 1986; first released 1987][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: SNO Centre, Glasgow, ScotlandRecording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian CouzensMusic from Estonia Vol.2:01 - 04 Artur Lemba: Symphony in C-sharp minor (1908) [39'58]05 Rudolf Tobias: 'Julius Caesar' Overture (1896) [10'08]06 Heino Eller: Tone Poem Videvik 'Twilight' (1917) [6'00]07 Veljo Tormis: Overture No.2 (1959) [11'07]08 Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977) [6'14]Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme JärviChandos CHAN8656 [recorded August 1987 & May 1988; first released 1989][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Henry Wood Hall [01-05], Glasgow and Caird Hall, […]
2024-03-06 07:35:00
Catching up with Gediminas Gelgotas: my article, Vilnius in drei Sätzen, in latest issue of Schott's Das Orchester
Back in 2018, I interviewed Lithuanian composer Gediminas Gelgotas when he brought his New Ideas Chamber Orchestra to the UK. Since then he and the ensemble have been busy. In March 2023 Gediminas conducted his largest work to date, The Sarabande of Vilnius with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the first mention of Vilnius in the historical record, and in December 2024 Gediminas and New Ideas Chamber Orchestra made their Carnegie Hall debut.I caught up with Gediminas late last year, via Zoom, and you can read the resulting article in German translation, Vilnius in drei Sätzen, in the latest edition of Schott's magazine Das Orchester. The March 2024 edition is entirely devoted to music and the Baltic.Further information from Das Orchester's website.
2022-06-04 08:33:52
Hearing with new ears: Italian pianist Pina Napolitano wants her Conway Hall recital Tempo e Tempi to make the music of Carter more familiar and that of Beethoven more unfamiliar
Pina Napolitano The Italian pianist, Pina Napolitano will be in London on 24 June 2022 for her recital Tempo e Tempi at Conway Hall. The recital, somewhat postponed, pairs Beethoven piano sonatas with music by Anton Webern and Elliott Carter, whilst Pina's most recent disc on Odradek Records, Brahms the Progressive, vol 2, pairs Brahms with Webern. The pairing of classic 19th century piano repertoire with the music of the Second Viennese School and contemporary composers is something that Pina has been exploring for the last few years, and something she feels passionate about. She feels that by performing classical repertoire alongside modern, she can highlight the relationship and show the continuity, the things they have in common. Her performances and recordings are currently somewhat mixed up, thanks to the pandemic so the Tempo e Tempi programme with Beethoven and Elliott Carter was originally planned for 2020 the Beethoven […]
2021-07-28 07:29:51
Piazzolla explorations: celebrating the composer's centenary with recordings from Lithuania, Switzerland and the USA
Astor Piazzolla playing the bandoneon This year is Astor Piazzolla's centenary, and centenaries are usually the time for reassessment and rediscovery. Perhaps that will come, I feel that we need modern groups to explore the style and soundworld of the composer's original performances, but at the moment musicians seem to be more interested in where Piazzolla's music can take them and where they can take his music. I have been listening to three, very different tributes to the composer coming from Lithuania, Switzerland and the USA. We get two different versions of his bandoneon concerto and Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas, as well as a wide variety of shorter works in versions for harp and piano. Not a definitive collection of Piazzolla, but a sampling of the explorations triggered by the centenary.First off is a disc from Lithuania with a live performance of Piazzolla's Aconcagua: concerto for bandoneon and orchestra […]