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Byrd Compared: Phantasm & Anna Prohaska celebrate the consort song
Byrd Compared: Byrd and English Song; Anna Prohaska, Phantasm; Wigmore HallReviewed 10 January 2024A programme celebrating the sheer diversity of William Byrd's consort songs, rendered with commitment and absolute identification by Anna Prohaska.The consort song was a peculiarly English form from the late 16th and early 17th centuries for a solo voice accompanied by viols and the form continued alongside the Italian madrigal and the lute song. Viol consorts were a sociable, private thing, groups of friends would gather for such, which meant that the consort song was a similar sort of event, definitely more for the parlour than anything more public.For their concert at Wigmore Hall on Wednesday 10 January 2023, Byrd Compared: Byrd and English Song, the viol consort Phantasm (Laurence Dreyfus, Jonathan Manson, Emilia Benjamin, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola) had clearly decided to mix things up somewhat and presented a programme of consort songs, not with a familiar specialist singer, […]
2023-10-13 00:00:00
Britten, Chausson, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Rubbra, Schumann et al: Orchestral & Vocal Works (Malcolm Sargent et al)
[…] collection on their BBC Radio Classics CD label in 1996. Some how they appear to have retained rights to these BBC recordings for download. The booklet pages included here are for the original CD issue.Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. 100 Years: Popular Classics01 - 21 Robert Schumann: Carnaval, op.9. Scènes Mignonnes sur Quatre Notes [28'24]22 Georges Bizet (arr. Méndez): Carmen, Act 1- Habanera [3'56]23 Leroy Anderson: Belle of the Ball [2'53]24 Nigel Westlake: Cudmirrah Fanfare [1'54]25 George Dreyfus: Rush [2'30]26 Bruce Smeaton: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith [2'47]27 Bizet: L'Arlésienne. Suite No. 1- Prélude28 Stuart Greenbaum: 90 Minutes Circling the Earth [5'09]29 Holst: The Planets, op.32: - IV. Jupiter. The Bringer of Jollity [7'11]30 Franz Lehar: Gold and Silver Waltz, op.79 [8'06]31 Johann Strauss II: Freikugeln, op.326 'Magic Bullets Polka' [2'27]Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley [01 - 21], Jean-Louis Forestier [22], Paul Mann [23], Philip Green [24], George Dreyfus [25], […]
2023-09-07 11:32:30
In September 1899 Grieg said ‘non’ to Paris as the Dreyfus affair rages
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2023-04-06 06:08:52
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