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From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] are quite hands-off when it comes to organ specifications, whilst Nico Muhly, who has a church music background, knows instinctively how to write for the instrument, leaving scope for the player.James McVinnie at the Royal Festival Hall in 2015When Esa-Pekka Salonen was writing his Sinfonia concertante for organ and orchestra (2023) he mentioned being daunted that the organ is an orchestra in itself. Many of the repertoire pieces for organ and orchestra, Poulenc's concerto, Saint-Saens' symphony, Alexandre Guilmant's symphony and Jón Leifs' concerto (which James calls amazing and difficult) tend to be a battle between organ and orchestra. Composers now are taking a more integrated approach, and Gabriella Smith's writing in her concerto feels very organic, with the orchestral writing coming out of the organ. Nico Muhly's piece for organ and orchestra, Register uses the orchestral wind in a very organ-like way, and the work is something of a philosophical dialogue. […]
2023-12-28 05:00:00
Monsigny: Le Déserteur (Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette)
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729-1787)Le Déserteur, Drama in Three Acts (1769)Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette(Period Instruments) Naxos 8.660263-64 (2010) 2-Disc set[Flac & Scans]
2023-10-23 16:13:20
Alexandre Kantorow made his Carnegie Hall recital debut after winning both the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Gilmore Artist Award.
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2023-10-22 07:38:15
The young French pianist Alexandre Kantorow, winner of... The post Gilmore winner seeks work-life balance first appeared on Slippedisc. The post Gilmore winner seeks work-life balance appeared first on Slippedisc.
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