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- pipe organ, organ
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- organist, composer
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2024-02-08 07:49:00
Diagrams & sonatas: discs of solo piano music Arvo Pärt and Ivor Gurney, neither composer well-known for writing in the genre
Ivor Gurney: Piano Sonatas 1 & 3, Adagio from Piano Sonata 2, Five Preludes; George Rowley; NaxosArvo Pärt: Diagrams, complete music for piano; Tähe-Lee Liiv; ERPReviewed 29 January 2024Two contrasting discs of piano music by 20th century composers who are not known for their work in the genre, highlighting our partiality when it comes to looking at repertoireIt is fascinating how fixated on a particular genre we can be with some composers. Sometimes this has to do with availability, until some brave editor makes the music available in a viable edition then with the best will in the world, the composer's recorded output might be a bit partial. But also, it seems that we do rather like pigeon-holing. Two discs from last year rather emphasised this, and both proved admirable showcases for a pair of talented young pianists. British pianist George Rowley recorded of Ivor Gurney's three Piano Sonatas and Five Preludes for Naxos, and Estonian […]
2022-01-26 11:00:00
A conversation with Robert Capron, who was cast as Rowley Jefferson in “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.”
2022-01-17 07:49:21
A sense of ritual: Edward Jesson's Syllable, a work of complex musical theatre, is premiered by Trinity Laban Opera
[…] production was technically complex and highly ingenious, making striking use of projection in a number of innovative ways including one scene where a character seemed to be having a dinner with herself. On a technical level this evening was superb, both in the imagination applied to the staging and the way it was very successfully implemented. The dominating text was the spoken narration, pre-recorded by the members of Bastard Assignments (Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, Caitlin Rowley, Josh Spear ). This was free-form and improvisatory in style, and though I am unfamiliar with the Primo Levi story, the text seemed to take themes from it rather than give a sequential narration. But this was reflective of the reflexive approach to narration in the whole piece. My only regret with the narration was that it was pre-recorded, and I did rather wish that there had been cast present in the room to […]
2021-10-06 08:23:52
The world's oldest guitar and earliest keyboard instrument with strings: the new Royal College of Music Museum opens this week
Royal College of Music Museum (Photo Phil Rowley) The Royal College of Music has around 15,000 items in its historic collection, though I suspect that few of us ever got around to going to the old museum in the college's South Kensington headquarters. But as part of the college's current £40 million four-year campus transformation project a brand new museum has been built. The new museum opened this week (5 October 2021) and offers visitors the chance to interact with 500 years of musical history. Items on permanent display include the world's oldest guitar and earliest keyboard instrument with strings, along with 56 other instruments from the collection. As well as musical instruments, the museum tells its story through art, including an iconic portrait of Farinelli and a remarkable Tischbein featuring an instrument from the collection displayed alongside. A series of portraits by German artist Milein Cosman (1921-2017) will be on display to […]
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