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2018-09-10 07:00:00
BBC NewsKirstie Allsopp has revealed she smashed her children's iPads after they broke her rules about screen time. The TV presenter, who is mother to two sons and two ...
2018-05-25 12:09:26
Prophetiae Sibyllarum
[…] his Visions, one of the eight student responses to the Lassus.This is not an everyday disc, but it is a fascinating exploration of one of those pieces of music which are better known by reputation than from experience in performing.Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594) - Prophetiae SibyliarumHildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) - O pastor animarumDmitr Tymoczko (born 1969) - Prophetiae SibyliarumHildegard von Bingen - Laus TrinitatiElliot Cole (born 1984) - I saw you under the fig treeGallicantus (David Allsopp, Mark Chambers, Nicholas Todd, Christopher Watson, Gabriel Crouch, William Gaunt)Gabriel Crouch (director)Recorded in St Michael's Church, Highgate London, 24-26 October 2016.SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD520 1 CD [53.10]Available from Amazon.Elsewhere on this blog: Interesting programmes, strange timing - homages to Lully and Louis Couperin at London Festival of Baroque music (★★★★ / ★★★½) - concert review Musical style is like a language: I chat to German composer Moritz Eggert - Interview Alan Rawsthorne - […]
2015-06-21 09:00:09
Polyphony/Layton (Hyperion)Stephen Layton’s Polyphony are an always impressive choir of startling purity and clarity. This collection of 20th-century US material encompasses familiar pieces from Randall Thompson alongside Barber’s declamatory and shifting Reincarnations and several motets, concluding with his great Let down the bars, O death. Bernstein’s acerbic Missa brevis benefits from fine solo work from countertenors David Allsopp and Christopher Lowrey, and we hear a curiosity from Bernstein’s teacher, Aaron Copland: four motets written when he was a student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, each infused with the influences of the French choral tradition and a long way from the style we associate with the mature Copland. Continue reading...
2013-03-28 23:00:02
(Babel)This impressive set by Bruno Heinen is the young pianist's jazz interpretation of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Tierkreis, the tone-row suite structured on the signs of the zodiac that his classical-musician parents performed with Stockhausen himself in the 1970s. Reworked for a resourceful European group including pure-toned trumpeter Fulvio Sigurtà, bass clarinetist James Allsopp and tenor saxist Tom Challenger, Tierkreis is the best kind of crossover project. It's full of melody, and glowing with jazzy ensemble sounds; it's content to let minimal, tinkling melodies (the original Tierkreis was for 12 music boxes) run on, but prodded by rugged percussion; and features passages in which trumpet parts like classical fanfares give way to wriggling tenor-sax improv. Challenger's variations on Gemini are gripping in their snaking lines and high, startled blips, and the band sounds like a coolly jazz-infused downtown New York group over Jon Scott's brittle drumming on the lissome, steadily building Cancer. Erudition, […]
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