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2023-03-24 00:00:00
Made in Britain and British Light Music (John Wilson)
[…] John WilsonAvie AV2194 [recorded April 2010; issued 2011][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UKRecording engineer: Philip Hobbs; Producer: John FraserThe Land of the Mountain and the Flood - Scottish Orchestral Music:01 Hamish MacCunn: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, op.3 [9'11]02 Marcus Dods: Highland Fancy * [3'11]03 Hugh Roberton (arr. Philip Lane): All in the April Evening [3'24]04 - 08 Iain Hamilton: Scottish Dances, op.32 [11'57]09 Buxton Orr: Fanfare and Processional [4'31]10 - 13 Muir Matheson: From the Grampians. Suite [9'12]14 - 16 Hamish MacCunn (arr. Carse): Highland Memories, op.30 [9'49]17 Cedric Thorpe Davie: Royal Mile. Coronation March, op.106 [7'30] 18 - 21 Buxton Orr: Celtic Suite ^ [10'39]Alaster Bentley- oboe*, Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by David Lloyd-Jones^ and John WilsonASV White Line CDWHL2123 [recorded July 1997^ and January 1999; issued 1999, digital download 2005][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording […]
2021-11-16 07:38:53
A disc to make us re-consider: Peter Warlock Songbook from Luci Briginshaw and Eleanor Meynell
[…] sensibility and harmonic inventiveness. But Rest, sweet nymph returns us to Warlock's old-new style, as does Spring but the music is so delightful with such inventive rhythmic vitality that how could we complain. Moving to 1923, To the memory of a great singer is Warlock's revision of an older song, still inventive but ironing out some of the earlier harmonic daring, yet still with richly evocative harmonic touches. Consider was dedicated to the composer CW Orr and it has a busy and virtuosic piano part (again the voice of John Ireland seems to hover in the distance). I held a Love's head uses a 17th century text, but this is all 20th century. Perhaps not as daring as Warlock's earlier manner, but still impressive. We return to period evocation with Pretty Ring Time (1924) and Robin Goodfellow (1926), the latter with a delightfully inventive piano accompaniment. In Ha'nacker Mill, Warlock […]
2021-11-16 07:38:53
A disc to make us re-consider: Peter Warlock Songbook from Luci Briginshaw and Eleanor Meynell
[…] sensibility and harmonic inventiveness. But Rest, sweet nymph returns us to Warlock's old-new style, as does Spring but the music is so delightful with such inventive rhythmic vitality that how could we complain. Moving to 1923, To the memory of a great singer is Warlock's revision of an older song, still inventive but ironing out some of the earlier harmonic daring, yet still with richly evocative harmonic touches. Consider was dedicated to the composer CW Orr and it has a busy and virtuosic piano part (again the voice of John Ireland seems to hover in the distance). I held a Love's head uses a 17th century text, but this is all 20th century. Perhaps not as daring as Warlock's earlier manner, but still impressive. We return to period evocation with Pretty Ring Time (1924) and Robin Goodfellow (1926), the latter with a delightfully inventive piano accompaniment. In Ha'nacker Mill, Warlock […]
2020-10-31 08:41:04
The smallest ditty can feel like a marathon if it does not fit the voice: following his appearance with Blackheath Halls Opera, I chat to tenor Nicky Spence about his career and planning roles
[…] - Nicky Spence, Julius Drake,Victoria Samekl, Václava Housková on Hyperion. Available from Amazon, Hive Vaughan William: Folk songs volume 1 - Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence, Roderick Williams, Jack Liebeck, William Vann on Albion Records. Available from Amazon, Alex Woolf: Requiem - Nicky Spence, Iain Burnside, Philip Higham, Anthony Gray, Vox Luna, Alex Woolf on Delphian. Available from Amazon, Hive Handel: Brockes Passion - Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr on AAM. Available from Amazon, Buxton Orr: Songs - Nicky Spence, Iain Burnside on Delphian. Available from Amazon, Hive Richard Strauss: Complete songs, volume 8 - Nicky Spence, Rebecca Evans, Roger Vignoles on Hyperion. Available from Amazon, A Journey through 'The Rakes Progress' Tom Rakewell - Nicky Spence Nick Shadow - Ashley Riches Anne Trulove - Francesca Chiejina Sellem - James Way Baba the Turk - Kitty Whately Mother Goose - Carolyn Williamson Blackheath Halls Orchestra and Chorus, […]
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