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2024-03-28 03:30:00
Lang Lang: Saint-Saens
by Bill HeckSaint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals, Piano Concerto 2; Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte; Debussy: Petite Suite 71; Faure: In paradisium; Delibes: Delibes: Lakmé: Flower Duet; Saint-Saens: Toccata after the Fifth Concerto (from Six Études pour piano op. 111); Faure: Pavane op. 50; Farrenc: Étude No. 10; Sohy: Song without Words; Tailleferre: Valse lente; Bonis: The Little One Falls Asleep; Boulanger: Of a Bright Garden; Saint-Saens: The Swan. Lang Lang, Gina Alice (pianos), Gewandhaus Orchestra cond, Andris Nelsons. DG 505859 Based on an admittedly very small sample, it seems that DG is interested in producing events as much as producing recordings. I suppose that’s their business, and but my curmudgeonly side is, shall we say, a little jaded. There’s no doubt that Lang Lang is a musical superstar, and I suppose that it’s natural for DG to be trading on that fame. Thus, you can find video sections […]
2024-02-20 10:00:00
From Harald en Italie to Le prophète in New York: 2024 Bard Summerscape focuses on Berlioz and his world
[…] since then I am not sure whether the opera has had a performance in the USA.In concert there is a chance to hear not only Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique but the far rarer Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie: monodrame lyrique, plus songs, the Te Deum, selections from Les Troyens, Le mort d’Ophélie, Harold en Italie and La damnation de Faust, alongside music by Reicha, Weber, Le Sueur, Spontini, Thomas, Gluck, Auber, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Liszt, Wagner, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Faure, Viardot, Farrenc, Bertin, Grandval, Cherubini, Paganini, Halevy, Adam, Strauss, Ernst, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Hiller, Gottschalk, Raff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, Varese and Messiaen.Full details from the Fisher Center website.
2023-12-01 00:00:00
Chamber Music for Strings (Coull, Dante, Duke, Goldner, Jean Sibelius, New Zealand String Quartets & Ironwood)
[…] WestKevin Volans (1949- ) - hunting: gathering:01 - 03 String Quartet No. 2 'Hunting: Gathering' (1987) [24'11]04 String Quartet No. 6 (2000) [24'31]05 - 09 String Quartet No. 1 'White Man Sleeps' (1982) [24'39]The Duke Quartet (Luisa Fuller and Rick Koster- violins, John Metcalfe- viola, Ivan McCready- cello)Black Box BBM1069 [recorded March 2001; CD issued 2002][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet sourced from internet]Recording venue: Winterbrook Studios, LondonRecording engineer and Producer: Chris CrakerLouise Farrenc & Camille Saint-Saëns on period instruments:01 - 04 Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintet No. 1 in A minor, op.30 * [31'10]05 - 08 Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Quintet in A major, op.14 ^ [32-25]Ironwood (Rachael Beesley & Robin Wilson ^- violins, Simon Oswel- viola, Daniel Yeadon- cello, Robert Nairn *- double bass, Neal Peres Da Costa- piano - 1869 Érard concert grand)ABC Classics 481 9887 [recorded December 2019 & February 2020; issued 2020][digital download; flacs, cover, […]
2023-11-27 12:24:00
There's music in all things: Bath Festival Orchestra marks the Berlioz 220 and Poulenc 125 anniversaries with a début performance at Southbank's Queen Elizabeth Hall
Bath Festival OrchestraPeter Manning, principal conductor/artistic director of Bath Festival Orchestra (BFO), had this to say about their forthcoming concert marking the Berlioz 220 and Poulenc 125 anniversaries. 'Our January programme considers a vast timeline spanning the troubadour influences of Poulenc’s neo-classical works. The three works we shall perform are distinct but each paints a vivid narrative through live music and each is crafted to evoke emotion. Therefore, by incorporating Byron’s influence on Berlioz, the programme will embrace the twin joys of literature and music thereby echoing Byron's words: "There's music in all things".' The concert (Sunday, 14 January 2024, 7.30pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall) opens with Louise Farrenc’s Overture in E minor, Op. 23. An extraordinary pianist, teacher and composer of the Romantic period - three symphonies, a few choral works, numerous chamber pieces and a wide variety of piano music - her ‘magical musical palette’ was much admired by Berlioz while […]
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