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2024-04-19 15:34:31
This time last year I was deeply immersed in the music of Gloria Coates. preparing for the Dialogue we were planning to record in July. It still fills me with deep sadness that Gloria’s cancer got to her before we could get together, but it’s been nice to see a… The post appeared first on 5:4. 5:4 is on Patreon! Please consider supporting the blog by becoming a Patron from just $2 a month: https://www.patreon.com/5against4
2024-02-15 07:23:00
A Lionel Tertis Celebration: Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu; Harmonia Mundi
A Lionel Tertis Celebration - York Bowen, Rebecca Clarke, Vaughan Williams, Lionel Tertis, Frank Bridge, Brahms, Schumann, Faure, William Wolstenholme, Kreisler, W.H. Reed, Eric Coates, Cecil Forsyth, John Ireland, and Mendelssohn; Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu; Harmonia Mundi12 February 2024Timothy Ridout's warm tribute to Lionel Tertis moves between powerful dramatic utterance and more domesticated, salon pieces, with every piece in a finely judged performanceInspired by the supple violin playing of Fritz Kreisler, though entirely self-taught, Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) made it his mission to bring the viola back to the foreground in classical music. In order to create a repertoire, Tertis adapted existing material (famously creating a viola concerto from Elgar's Cello Concerto, see my review of Ridout's 2023 recording of this), as well as badgering composers for pieces. Like other such figures (his friend the cellist Pablo Casals, and the guitarist Segovia), Tertis' taste in music was relatively conservative and famously […]
2024-02-06 07:24:00
Late romantic at Wigmore Hall: Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree in York Bowen and Rebecca Clarke
[…] development, and the ending was one of real emotional strength. Terrific, strong stuff.Impressively, Ridout played the entire programme from memory. He and pianist Frank Dupree seemed to have a warmly communicative relationship, with Ridout playing the programme alongside Dupree rather than sheltering in front of the piano. Throughout the programme, Dupree matched Ridout's approach, so all the pieces had an engaging warmth, poetry and communicativeness alongside a robust strength.We were treated to an encore. Eric Coates wrote his Souvenir of first meeting in 1943 for Tertis and though Tertis played it privately with Coates, the viola player had retired. It was only ever performed in a version for violin and the viola version was reconstructed thanks to John Wilson.Timothy Ridout's celebration of the art of Lionel Tertis is now out on Harmonia MundiNever miss outon future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your […]
2023-11-10 00:00:00
Farquhar, Farr, Finzi, Imogen Holst, Lilburn, McCabe, Psathas, Rubbra & The King's Alchemist: British and New Zealand Chamber Music
[…] Hulse; Producer: Murray KhouriImogen Holst - String Chamber Music (all first recordings):01 String Quartet 'Phantasy' (1928) [10'00]02 - 04 Duo for Viola and Piano ^ (1968) [9'53]05 - 08 String Trio No. 1 (1944) [14'30]09 - 13 The Fall of the Leaf for Cello (1962) * [7'47]14 - 16 Sonata for Violin and Cello (1930) [18'26]17 - 19 String Quintet * (1982) [14'16]Court Lane Music (Simon Hewitt Jones and David Warswick-violins, Tom Hankey- viola, Oliver Coates and Thomas Hewitt Jones*- cellos, Dniel Swain^- piano)NMC D236 [recorded August 2007; originally issued as Court Lane Music CLM37601 in 2008; NMC re-release in 2017[digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans; no booklet is provided with digital downloads so I have included the booklet for the original Court Lane Music issue sourced from the internet]Recording venue: All Saints Church, West Dulwich, LondonRecording engineer and Producer: Thomas Hewitt JonesDouglas Lilburn - Master Works for Strings:01 […]
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