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2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
[…] Abbey Road Studios *, LondonRecording engineers: Michael Sheady and Mark Vigars *; Producers: Shigakazu Tanaka and Roy Emerson *Sir Charles' Precious Music Box I (Denon CO-73534), with music by Elgar, Kabalevsky, Saint-Saens and Vaughan Williams, was also issued on CD in 1989 but never seems to have made it to digital download. I have never seen the CD but if anybody should have it and could make a download available, I would be most grateful.Malcolm Williamson:01 Santiago de Espada. Overture for Orchestra (1957) [6'33]02 - 04 Symphony No. 1 'Elevamini' (1957) [29'49]05 - 07 Sinfonia Concertante for three trumpets, piano and strings (1958/61) ^ [18'46]08 - 10 Piano Sonata No. 2 (1957 rev. 1970) * [17'28]Malcolm Williamson- piano*; Martin Jones- piano^, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesLyrita SRCD281 [recorded September 1971* for Lyrita and June 1976 for EMI; CD issued 2007[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording […]
2024-01-05 12:00:00
Geoff Pearce enjoys piano music by Christopher Brown. 'The writing requires a great deal from the pianist, both in technique and musical understanding and in this, Nathan Williamson excels.'
2023-12-04 14:45:09
Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn have gone from being outsiders to headlining a large London venue
2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
[…] holiness), a work bursting with wholesome joy and energy accompanied by Onyx Brass while it ended with an equally fine performance of the composer’s Gloria, scored for choir, brass, percussion and organ. A thoroughly uplifting and pleasurable piece - an excellent choice in which to close a marvellous, entertaining and fulfilling concert - featured percussionists Craig Apps and Joby Burgess as well as five girl choristers from Norwich Cathedral Choir: Eden Calver, Jemima Curtis, Antonia Williamson, Rosemary Zhang and Alice Platten, the daughter of the Revd Canon Aidan Platten, Canon Precentor at Norwich Cathedral since 2015 and grand-daughter of Stephen Platten, Dean at Norwich from 1995 to 2003, later becoming bishop of Wakefield. However, the penultimate item in this well-planned programme, Eugène Gigout’s Grand Chœur Dialogué, written in 1881, proved a grandiose and flamboyant affair with the rich-sounding chords of Onyx Brass once again blasting forth spinning excitedly round the […]
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