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2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] quite hands-off when it comes to organ specifications, whilst Nico Muhly, who has a church music background, knows instinctively how to write for the instrument, leaving scope for the player.James McVinnie at the Royal Festival Hall in 2015When Esa-Pekka Salonen was writing his Sinfonia concertante for organ and orchestra (2023) he mentioned being daunted that the organ is an orchestra in itself. Many of the repertoire pieces for organ and orchestra, Poulenc's concerto, Saint-Saens' symphony, Alexandre Guilmant's symphony and Jón Leifs' concerto (which James calls amazing and difficult) tend to be a battle between organ and orchestra. Composers now are taking a more integrated approach, and Gabriella Smith's writing in her concerto feels very organic, with the orchestral writing coming out of the organ. Nico Muhly's piece for organ and orchestra, Register uses the orchestral wind in a very organ-like way, and the work is something of a philosophical dialogue. James […]
2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
[…] loss to what is the country’s only full-time professional chamber choir. The Norwich Cathedral Organ rebuild project (Photo: Bill Smith / Norwich Cathedral)Organ Re-born! continued with the internationally-renowned organist, Thomas Trotter (honoured by the late Queen Elizabeth II who bestowed upon him The Queen’s Medal for Music on St Cecilia’s Day in 2020) giving the inaugural recital comprising an eclectic and entertaining programme that opened with JS Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in G minor and Guilmant’s Marche Funèbre et Chant Séraphique, a piece boldly showing off the instrument’s dynamics ranging from the softest and most delicate of sounds to such thrilling, majestic and expressive sounds ending the composition on a high. Trotter also tucked in a rather nice lively piece he commissioned from Jonathan Dove (The Dancing Pipes/1959) while Willan’s Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue and Karg-Elert’s Valse Mignonne added so much to the overall pleasure of the programme which ended […]
2021-12-30 06:40:00
[…] Life, Peace and Love.” For many potential listeners, that might sound like pretentious twaddle; however, I hope it does not dissuade you from giving this release an audition, for I have found it to be one of the most beautiful recordings I have heard in quite some time. Images: Anna Lapwood, Organ of Ely Cathedral. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Erwin Wiersinga); Patrick Gowers: An Occasional Trumpet Voluntary; Debussy: Andante from String Quartet in G Minor (arr. Alexandre Guilmant); Kerensa Briggs: Light in Darkness; Nadia Boulanger: III. Improvisation from Trois Improvisations; Owain Park: Images; Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (arr.Lapwood); Messiaen: Vocalise-Étude (arr. Lapwood); Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Taking Your Leave. Signum Classics SIGCD688. The centerpiece of the album is Ms. Lapwood’s arrangement and performance of Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from his opera Peter Grimes. This is music that in its orchestral guise is doubtless familiar to many readers of Classical Candor, two of the finest recordings being those of […]
2021-12-17 23:00:00
[…] Messe pour le temps de Noël (1788) Ensemble ...In Ore mel... Olivier Vernet - organ Recorded September 2007 Label: Ligia Lidi 0104187-07 [2CD] Download 1fichier Uptobox Christmas at the Court of Dresden Works of Heinichen, Seger, Schürer and Ristori Körnerscher Sing-Verein Dresden Dresdner Instrumental-Concert Peter Kopp - direction Recorded January and February 2004 Label: Carus 83.169 Download 1fichier Uptobox Zippy Noëls of Daquin, Lebègue, Balbastre Franck, Gigout, Guilmant and Dupré Thierry Mechler - organ Abteikirche Duisburg-Hamborn Recorded june 1989 Label: Motette CD-11351 Download 1fichier Uptobox Mega Engel, Hirten und Könige... Christmas Organ- and Chorworks of Praetorius, Buxtehude, Bach, Händel, Riehm, Brahms, Reger, Messiaen et al. Carsten Wiebusch - organ Christuskirche Karlsruhe Label: Fermate 40.004 Recorded May 2011 Download 1fichier Uptobox Zippy Adeste Fideles Organ Music for Christmas Works of Best, Bach, Pachelbel, Dandrieu […]
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