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French conductor, composer, musicologist and pianist (1898-1964)
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2023-09-03 22:03:27
Welcome to Classical Sunday at Song of the Day for Today! This morning, I was listening to a piece o
2022-08-04 06:23:00
A Vaughan Williams Anthology: Tony Cooper reviews Naxos' eight-disc box set
[…] 5. The Lark Ascending / Suite of Six Short Pieces for Piano / The Solent / Fantasia. Jennifer Pike (violin), Sina Kloke (piano). Chamber Orchestra of New York, cond. Salvatore di Vittorio. 6. Phantasy Quintet / String Quartets Nos.1 & 2. Maggini String Quartet, Garfield Jackson (viola). 7. Willow-Wood (a cantata for baritone and orchestra) / The Sons of Light / Toward the Unknown Region / Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus. Roderick Williams (baritone). Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, cond. David Lloyd-Jones. 8. Sacred Choral Music including Mass in G minor. The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, James McVinnie and Ashok Gupta (organ), cond. Timothy Brown. As a major 20th-century symphonist, Vaughan Williams - one of England’s most illustrious and well-respected composers and a well-known figure in Norwich attending meetings of the Norfolk & Norwich Triennial Festival in the 1930s - is […]
2022-04-02 00:00:00
[…] of those works ever recorded, and they received glowing reviews, and yet he gave up conducting by 1976. After his retirement as a singer, however, he did conduct orchestral accompaniments to his wife, soprano Julia Varady, one album each of Verdi, Wagner and Strauss arias. There are reports of an album he made of rarely-heard orchestral works by Hugo Wolf for EMI (you can hear it here) and he is said to have performed Schubert’s Lazarus as well as Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, neither of which made it to CD. This two-CD set from Hänssler Classic adds to his skimpy conducting discography. Taken from a 1995 concert with Ensemble VARIANTI, this was probably a 100th birthday tribute to composer Paul Hindemith, who had died in 1963. Fischer-Dieskau had already recorded, as a baritone, a pace-setting performance of Hindemith’s great opera Mathis der Maler, and here he gives […]
2021-09-27 23:00:00
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony & Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 [Christopher Seaman & Ewa Kupiec]
[…] with Douglas Bostock's recording of Prelude on an Old Carol Tune added as a makeweight. And another bonus - Neville Marriner's later recording of Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works made for Philips. Ralph Vaughan Williams:01. The Wasps. An Aristophanic Suite - I. Overture [9'01]02. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis [14'14]03. In the Fen Country [14'15]04. (arr. Gordon Jacob) Variations for Orchestra [12'02]05. Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 [11'07]06. Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' [11'01] Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Neville Marriner Philips 442 4272 [recorded July 1993; digital download released 2006][digital download; flacs, booklet (kindly provided by MIMIC friend Contrarian), cover and back scans]Recording venue: Abbey Road Studios, LondonRecording engineer: Erdo Groot; Producer: Erik Smith Not as sparkling as Marriner's late-1970s Vaughan Williams recordings for Decca which included the classic recording of The Lark Ascending with Iona Brown. It sometimes feels a bit heavy, particularly in […]
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