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French politician (1780-1855)
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2021-03-15 14:13:01
Bach and more, 20201
[…] is not his first opus: Bach was 40 by then and had written a lot of music during his years in Weimar and Köthen (for example, the first volume of The Well-Tempered Clavier was composed in 1722). So here’s Cantata BWV 1, performed by the Bach-Ensemble under the direction of Helmuth Rilling. March 21st also marks the 100th anniversary of Arthur Grumiaux, one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. He was born in Villers-Perwin, not far from Charleroi, Belgium. At the age of 12 he went to the Brussels Conservatory. He made his debut right before the Germans invaded the country early in WWII. During the occupation he didn’t perform publicly; instead, he played in a private quartet. He resumed his career once the war was over, debuting in London in 1945 and later performing in the US. Grumiaux had a wide repertoire; his Mozart and Beethoven were […]
2021-02-17 10:00:30
A reflection of a lifetime's performing: Benjamin Britten's complete folk-songs for voice and piano in a new recording from Mark Milhofer and Marco Scolastra
[…] song. RVW [whose arrangements are only just being discovered, see my review], sat between the two but he was clear that he was creating art song. RVW's folk-song arrangements were intended for classically trained singers, to fit into art-song programmes.Benjamin Britten came from a slightly different English tradition. Whilst he did study at the Royal College of Music, the biggest influence on his music was Frank Bridge who, though he had studied with Sir Charles Villers Stanford, was one of the few English composers of the time interested in the music that was happening on the Continent. Whilst at the Royal College of Music, Britten found his fellow students 'folksy and amateurish'. You feel he sympathised with Constant Lambert whose witty and polemical study Music Ho came out in 1934, and which derided the English pastoral school. Yet Britten came to love the music of Percy Grainger and Britten produced […]
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Black Composers Series - 1974-1978
[…] disc makes you want to explore more.Volume two pairs music by William Grant Still with that of Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Here we hear Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony which combines Afro-American melodies and jazz inspired moments (Grant Still played the oboe in the show Shuffle Along) into a symphonic work which made history when it became the first time an American orchestra played a symphonic work by a Black man. Coleridge Taylor, a student of Charles Villers Stanford, is becoming known for far more than Hiawatha, but it is good to have him on the discs and here we have the Danse Negre and of course 'Onaway! Awake, Beloved' from Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. And we have to remember, this was an American record set and the piece sets a poem by a famous American writer.With volume three we go into rarer territory, Ulysses Simpson Kay and George Theophius Walker. Kay was […]
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