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Finnish composer (1928–2016)
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2024-02-03 08:50:00
What about blowing the box to pieces: composer Eímear Noone on writing for video games, films and TV
[…] which is a nice challenge. And Eímear comments, rather proudly, that she recently wrote a French chanson! All this is fun because it means you have to stretch your creativity to do what the developers want.Eímear studied at Trinity College, Dublin and whilst in college she was not aware of video game music. As a teenager, she had been drawn to atonal and serial music but attended a Summer school given by Finnish composer Kalevi Aho (who studied with Einojuhani Rautavaara and Boris Blacher). Aho warned against boxing yourself in stylistically, with no use of traditional harmonies or melody. Eímear thought about going further and simply blowing the box to pieces.Video Games in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 2023, Video Games in Concert - Eímear Noone & the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (Photo: Andy Paradise)Whilst at Trinity College, UCLA opened an outpost which enabled Eímear to do film music modules. Her first big credit came about […]
2023-12-01 00:00:00
Chamber Music for Strings (Coull, Dante, Duke, Goldner, Jean Sibelius, New Zealand String Quartets & Ironwood)
[…] flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk,UKRecording engineer: Ben Connellan; Producer: Jeremy HayesFranz Schubert:01 - 04 String Quartet No.15 in G major, D.887 [51'17]New Zealand String Quartet (Helene Pohl and Douglas Beilman- violins, Gillian Ansell- viola, Rolf Gjelsten- cello)Morrison Music Trust MMT2062 [recorded November & December 2010; issued 2013][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St Anne's Church, Toronto, CanadaRecording engineer: Norbert Kraft; Producers: Norbert Kraft and Bonnie KraftEinojuhani Rautavaara:01 - 04 String Quintet 'Unknown Heavens' (1997) [25'28]05 - 07 String Quartet No.1 (1952) [11'12]08 - 11 String Quartet No.2 (1958) [24'51]Jan-Erik Gustafsson- cello *, Jean Sibelius Quartet (Yoshiko Arai-Kimanen and Jukka Pohjola- violins, Matti Hirvikangas- viola, Seppo Kimanen- cello)Ondine ODE909-2 [recorded November and August 1997; CD issued 1998][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recording venue: Kanneltalo, Helsinki, FinlandRecording engineer: Enno Mäemets; Producer: Seppo SiiralaDownload from Mega.
2023-08-14 04:30:00
Rautavaara and Martinů: Piano Concertos (CD Review)
by Ryan RossRautavaara: Piano Concerto No. 3 ‘Gift of Dreams’; Martinů: Piano Concerto No. 3. Olli Mustonen, piano; Lahti Symphony Orchestra; Dalia Stasevska, conductor. BIS-2532The unexpected coupling of these two compositions is already creating some buzz for this recording. What do they and their composers at all have in common anyway? According to the liner notes by Jean-Pascal Vachon, both men “adopted an attitude free from any musical puritanism, constantly finding new sources of inspiration which they explored without taboos.” Right. But these are also both very accessible compositions in a 20th-century musical landscape where accessibility still isn’t a particularly prestigious value, even in hindsight. It was one thing for Martinů to be composing neo-Romantic music (Vachon notes his Third Concerto’s links with Brahms) as late as 1948, but what of Rautavaara cranking out works that are at once so individual and yet so unabashedly easy on the ears, decades after having forsaken […]
2022-08-05 07:54:00
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra launches 2022/23 season under music director Joanna MacGregor
[…] in the season include conductor laureate Barry Wordsworth directing Mahler's Symphony No. 4, with soprano Carolyn Sampson, and Robert Howarth directing Bach's St Matthew Passion. In January the orchestra strike out in a new direction, playing on Saturday evening rather than Sunday afternoon, and celebrating the natural world in a collaboration with visual artist Kathy Hinde. The music will mix avant-garde, minimalist, rock, jazz and more including Philip Glass, Rolf Wallin, John Luther Adams, Einojuhani Rautavaara and Jonny Greenwood.There is also a chamber music programme including Joanna MacGregor and BPO principals in Frank Martin, Shostakovich and Brahms, Brighton Festival Chorus and BPO Brass in Gabrieli and Paul Mealor, and for Christmas Roger Allam narrates Dickens' A Christmas Carol. In the New Year, concerts include MacGregor and BPO principals in Rebecca Clarke and Elgar.For those who have never seen a classical concert or heard the BPO before, there are a limited […]
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