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French organist and composer (1844–1937)
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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.
[…] the Norwich Cathedral Chamber Choir comprising around 50 talented amateur singers conducted by Ashley Grote, Master of the Music at Norwich Cathedral since 2012. Offering a brilliant account of the new rebuilt organ David Dunnett, (organist at Norwich Cathedral since 1996 but Master of the Music from 1996 to 2007) performed two great organ showpieces: Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor and David Willcocks’ Sing! a choral arrangement of the ‘Toccata’ from Charles Marie Widor’s Organ Symphony No.5 in F major. All Cambridge men, really, as Dunnett studied at Clare College, Grote at King’s College and, of course, Willcocks enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the Choir of King's College, directing it from 1957 to 1974. An enlightening and, indeed, popular concert, the programme included a couple of well-loved choral works with Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and John Rutter’s Gloria. Featuring Irish-born harpist Anneke Hodnett as well as […]
2021-10-03 11:37:00
As a Wagner conductor he has no equal
[…] as organist at the Anglo-Catholic church of St Alban’s, Holborn that was more important. The photo above shows Goodall with members of the choir, and during his time at St Alban’s he built the reputation of the choir in repertoire ranging from renaissance masterpieces including Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices, through Bruckner to Stravinsky and contemporary composers such as Jan Mul from the Netherlands. Goodall was also a virtuoso organist and his repertoire included Tournemire, Widor, Vierne and Dupré.The reputation of the St Alban’s Choir rapidly spread, and in December 1934 the boys sang in the first public performance of A Boy Was Born by an up and coming young composer called Benjamin Britten. The occasion was one of the contemporary music concerts promoted by a trio of women, Iris Lemare, the violinist Anne Mcnaghten, and the composer Elisabeth Lutyens who featured herself in an article here recently. This early […]
2021-09-15 14:00:37
Paris: La Belle Époque. Works by Widor, Mouquet, Enescu, Gaubert, Fauré, Debussy Robert Langevin, flute. Margaret Kampmeier, piano Bridge 9555 ★★★★★ Montrealers of a certain age will remember Robert Langevin as the associate principal flute of the OSM who went on to earn the top jobs in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the New York [...]
2021-09-07 06:28:40
Arthur Honegger: Mélodies et Chansons from Holger Falk & Steffen Schleiermacher
[…] assemblages of larger-scale independent songs. The poets are largely contemporary and names such as Jean Cocteau, Apollinaire and Paul Claudel providing links with Honegger's contemporaries Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud. But it is best to forget these two, and concentrate on Honegger himself and his approach to writing for voice and piano. Born in France of Swiss parents, he studied both at the Zurich Conservatoire and the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d'Indy and whilst Honegger followed the fashionable trends he was never the most progressive of 20th century composers. Some of the songs on this disc have the wit, energy and brevity of Poulenc's early work, but often we are struck by the composer's seriousness of purpose, even in the lighter or faster pieces, and the way that from the 1920s the piano ceases to dazzle and becomes a supportive partner with the […]
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