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2024-04-05 09:27:00
Sea Songs: Brighton Philharmonic in Geirr Tveitt's Hardanger fiddle concerto and other delights
Ragnhild Hemsing and Hardanger fiddle (Photo: Nikolaj Lund)On Sunday, 7 April 2024, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's season finale at the Dome in Brighton features dynamic young conductor Adam Hickox in Sea Songs. Yes, the programme does begin with Britten's Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes' and ends with Debussy's La Mer (written just down the coast in Eastbourne!), but the real meat is in between these. Ragnhild Hemsing is the Hardanger fiddle soloist in Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt's Concerto No. 2 Three Fjords, whilst Joanna Macgregor is the piano soloist in music by the great Japanese film composer, record producer and actor Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died last year.The hardanger fiddle is Norway's national instrument; it probably originated in the 17th century s a hybrid of earlier folk fiddles and the viola d’amore. Its tone is smaller than the violin and‚ with its four sympathetic strings‚ sounds not unlike a treble viol. Geir Tveitt (1908-1981) was a central figure […]
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: Sinfonia […]
2023-09-08 04:00:00
Arnold, Chausson, Elgar, Gurney, Hurd, Joncières & Simpson: Vocal & Orchestral Works (Roderick Williams, Felicity & Ben Palmer, Richard Hickox et al)
[…] (1839 - 1903): La Mer * [15'03]Marie-Nicole Lemieux- alto, Choeur de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux *, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine conducted by Paul DanielErato 9029542433 [recorded October 2018; issued 2019][digital download; cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Auditorium Bordeaux Aquitaine, Bordeaux, FranceRecording engineer: Hugues Deschaux; Producer: Daniel ZalayEdward Elgar:01 - 10 The Music Makers op.69 * [38'51]11 - 15 Sea Pictures, op.37 [23'18]Felicity Palmer- contralto, London Symphony Chorus *, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard HickoxEMI CDM565126-2 [recorded May 1986; first issued 1987][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Watford Town Hall (Colloseum), UKRecording engineer and Producer: Brian CulverhouseIn his Elgar's Sea Pictures feature in last month's Gramophone magazine, Andrew Farach-Cohen, not unnaturally, plumped for Janet Baker's recording with John Barbirolli as his top choice. But he also included this recording by Felicity Palmer with Richard Hickox in his top four as The Luxurious Choice and […]
2023-08-18 00:00:00
Vaughan Williams & Elgar: A London Symphony and other Orchestral Works (Martin Yates & Martyn Brabbins)
[…] [26'30]04 - 07 A London Symphony (first published version - 1920) [48'41]Leon McCawley and John Lenehan- pianos*, Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin YatesDutton Epoch CDLX7322 [recorded 2015; issued 2015][digital download; flacs, cover scan - no booklet]Recording venue: Henry Wood Hall, RSNO Centre, Glasgow, ScotlandRecording engineer and Producer: not given but probably Dexter Newman and Michael PonderWith not as much additional music as the original 1913 version of A London Symphony (recorded by Richard Hickox and the London Symphony), this first published version from 1920 is still a revelation and these are the only two modern recordings - Martin Yates setting it down a little before Martyn Brabbins. The only other recording that I know of, was made by Eugene Goossens in 1941.Ralph Vaughan Williams:01 - 09 (orch. Martin Yates): The Bluebird. Incidental Music (1913) [15'30]10 Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E minor (1906 rev. 1914) [11'42]11 (ed. & […]
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