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2023-10-02 03:30:00
Éventail (CD Review)
by Karl NehringRavel: Pièce en forme de Habanera; Saint-Saëns: Sonate, op.166; André Jolivet: Controversia*; Messiaen: Vocalise-Étude; Morceau de lecture; Ravel: Deux Mélodies hébraïques; Kaddisch; Milhaud: Vocalise-Étude; Debussy: Syrinx; Koechlin: Le repos de Tityre, op. 216/10; Jolivet: Chant pour les piroguiers de l'Orénoque; Debussy: Petite pièce; Saint-Saëns: Le Rossignol; Robert Casadesus: Sonate, op.23. Heinz Holliger, oboe, oboe d’amore; Anton Kernjak, piano; Alice Belugou, harp*. ECM New Series 2694Swiss oboist, composer, and conductor Heinz Holliger (b. 1939) has enjoyed a long and illustrious musical career. Many composers have written works for him, including Frank Martin, Olivier Messiaen, Witold Lutoslawski, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Elliott Carter, Hans Werner Henze, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Isang Yun. A glance at the ECM website reveals that Éventail (“Fan”) is the latest of more that two dozen recordings he has made for the label in those roles of composer, conductor, and performer. Introducing his latest recording, Holliger writes: “The fan that opens like cautious butterfly wings, barely opening or timidly closing again, is the reflection of […]
2023-10-01 09:01:00
The 1930s sextet: contrasting works from Dohnanyi and Poulenc at the heart of Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and Orsino Winds collaborative concert
Orsino Winds (Nicholas Daniel, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Amy Harman, Adam Walker, Matthew Hunt)Tailleferre, Milhaud, Poulenc, Walker, Dohnanyi; Ornsino Winds (Adam Walker, Nicholas Daniel, Matthew Hunt, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Amy Harman), Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective (Tom Poster, Elena Urioste, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Tony Rymer); Hatfield House Chamber Music FestivalTwo contrasting sextets, both from the 1930s, at the heart of this richly engaging programme bringing strings, piano and wind together in unusual combinationsThe concert on the evening of Friday 29 September 2023 at the Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival in the house's Marble Hall brought together players from Orsino Winds and Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective for music by Germaine Tailleferre, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, George Walker and Ernst von Dohnanyi. It was an evening that delighted in playing together in somewhat unusual combinations, Poulenc's sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and piano being balanced by Dohnanyi's sextet for clarinet, horn, strings and piano.It was very much a […]
2023-09-04 12:25:00
Pianist William Vann is back with a further song series as part of Pizza Express Live at The Pheasantry in Chelsea. The three-concert series opens on Tuesday 12 September 2023 when William Vann is joined by soprano Carolyn Sampson for a programme of French song including Ravel's Shéhérazade setting free-verse poems by Tristan Klingsor inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite, Milhaud's Catalogue des fleurs setting seven flower descriptions by Lucien Daudet, Fauré's Cinq Mélodies de Venise setting poems by Verlaine which Fauré began writing in Venice, and Poulenc's La Courte Paille, which sets children's verse by Maurice Carême and which Poulenc wrote for the singer Denise Duval and her young song. The programme is completed by songs by Poldowski and Satie. Further details from the Pizza Express Live website.Further ahead, Vann is joined by mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately for an evening of English song by Rebecca Clarke, Madeleine Dring, Herbert Howells, John Ireland, Elizabeth Maconchy and Vaughan Williams […]
2023-08-21 03:30:00
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6; Hamlet (CD Review)
[…] to resurrect, including these Tchaikovsky recordings by the late American conductor Maurice Abravanel (1903-1993). Although his name may be unfamiliar to many music lovers, his story is an interesting one and his musical achievements are noteworthy. He was born in Greece and raised in Switzerland, where his family lived in the same house as the conductor Ernest Ansermet, with whom young Maurice played four-hand piano music and was able to meet composers such as Stravinsky and Milhaud. He later studied under Kurt Weill in Berlin, then moved to Paris, where he was music director for Balanchine’s Paris Ballet for three years. Abravanel then moved to the United States and became the youngest ever conductor ever hired at that time by the Metropolitan Opera. In 1943, he became an American citizen, then in 1947 left New York to become the conductor of what was at the time a rather provincial orchestra in Salt […]
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