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American-born record producer, composer and arranger
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2024-03-27 16:49:54
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2024-03-12 12:40:00
Aimard/RSB/Popelka - Schoenberg and Mahler, 9 March 2024
[…] the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSB) and Petr Popelka for an outstanding performance of the Piano Concerto, probably the best I have heard live—and a match for the best on record. The opening was unusual: difficult to put my finger (or ear) quite on how, but Aimard’s solo put me in mind a soliloquy, with a melancholy hint of exile. Perhaps it was recently having seen a dramatization of Exil by Schoenberg’s fellow Californian exile Leon Feuchtwanger at the Berliner Ensemble, though I do not think it was only an external matter. Other voices joined from the orchestra, conversationally, also as if recalling, yet with a distinct hint of foreboding. In general, I have not found Schoenberg’s ‘programme’ for the work especially helpful. Indeed, looking at what I wrote in my ‘critical life’ of the composer, I see I went so far as this: ‘Whether the programme is of any […]
2024-03-11 19:07:44
8 Tracks: Music for movies of the mind
Music can shift, uplift or even subvert a scene. This week on 8 Tracks, we play music supervisor, imagining songs by Kamasi Washington and Carin León on the big screen.
2024-03-08 09:15:00
A vivid account of Szymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams that never quite matched the terrific music
[…] LPO being joined by tenor Robert Murray and the Vlaams Radiokoor.Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams: A Body For Harnasie - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner - Royal Festival Hall (Photo: Mark Allan)Ben Cullen Williams' installation was suspended over the orchestra, part screen, part sculpture, it descended low enough that part of the stage was taken up, thus leading the orchestra to be awkwardly laid out for the whole concert.We began with Tania León's Raíces (Origins). Leon is the LPO's current composer in residence, and the new work has as its title the Spanish word Raíces which means origins or roots, those in question being partly Leon's own as she is Cuban with a mix of Spanish, Cuban, Chinese and French in her heritage.It is a large-scale work for a big orchestra that began with strings playing high and with harmonics, presenting us with tantalising fragments of material. Short rhythmic phrases developed […]
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