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American mezzo-soprano/contralto opera singer (1894-1989)
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2024-04-23
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2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] - 2.09 Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments * [19:18]2.10 - 2-16 Movements for Piano and Orchestra * [9:30]2.15 - 2.17 Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra * [16:35]Peter Donohoe- piano; Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Atherton*Somm CD266-2 [recorded July 1995* & January 1999*, September 2016 and June 2017; issued 2018][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK and Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong*Recording engineers: Paul Arden Taylor and Mike Hatch*; Producers: Sive Oke and Stephen Johns*Gerald Finzi:01 - 03 Cello Concerto in A minor, op.40 * [37'08]04 Eclogue for piano and strings, op.10 [10'51]05 Grand Fantasia and Toccata for piano and orchestra, op.38 [13'44]Tim Hugh- cello*; Peter Donohoe- piano, Northern Sinfonia conducted by Howard GriffithsNaxos 8.555766 [recorded January 2001; issued 2001][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Jubilee Theatre, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UKRecording engineer and Producer: Tim HandleyWilliam Alwyn:01 […]
2023-11-12 15:17:37
Glyndebourne, SussexA strong cast and gleeful chorus enliven this revival of Annabel Arden’s insightful production, which plays up the opera’s ironyOne of the many consequences of the cuts imposed by Arts Council England on England’s opera companies was
2022-11-16 17:06:00
Now we rise and we are everywhere
Nick Drake has featured here many times over the years. A new addition to the Nick Drake resources is Demian Dorelli's Pink Moon - A Journey on Piano. Impressive interpretation complimented by impressive piano sound captured in Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios. For some, including this listener, the style may be a little too Einauidu for comfort. But an awful lot of people like Ludovico Einaudi. And Einaudi sometimes sounds like Philip Glass on a bad day. And classical music needs a new audience. So what is there to complain about? Now we rise and we are everywhere is a quote from the last track on Pink Moon. It is inscribed on Nick's headstone at Tanworth-in-Arden.
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