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2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] These were kindred spirits, and he did not know anyone in the organ world doing this type of music. So, he did a side-step, focusing on concert work but feeling that he could go back if necessary. And twelve years later he is still here, having built a bit of a unique, custom career that has a momentum of its own. He still misses Evensong, playing the psalms and canticles, the music of Stanford and Howells. For James, the repertoire of music for Evensong is extraordinary. But living in London with that sense of rubbing shoulders with other cultural offerings made him want to focus on other areas, to explore and uncover other music. He has now had major concerto and solo works written for him by Nico Muhly, Gabriella Smith, Tristan Perich, Tom Jenkinson/Squarepusher, Martin Creed, David Chalmin, David Lang, Richard Reed Parry, Bryce Dessner, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Darkstar, and […]
2024-03-07 07:39:00
Danza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful elan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun
Danza gaya: music for two pianos - Madeleine Dring, Dorothy Howell, Pamela Harrison; Simon Callaghan, Hiroaki Takenouchi; LYRITAThree 20th-century English women composers, thirteen pieces all virtually unknown; Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi take us on an engagingly enjoyable explorationNone of the composers on pianists Simon Callaghan and Hiroaki Takenouchi's new disc are well enough known. Danza gaya on the Lyrita label features delightful music for two pianos by three women from 20th century English music, Madeleine Dring, Dorothy Howell and Pamela Harrison.We open with a group of pieces by Dring. Something of a child prodigy, Dring's time at the Royal College of Music would include lessons with Howells and Vaughan Williams, but her interests were wider and much of her working life was in theatre and cabaret. There is a lightness to a lot of her music that belies its fine craftsmanship and has, I think, rather mitigated against its appreciation. Callaghan […]
2024-01-29 10:42:00
Stanford, Holst and an RVW premiere: the 17th English Music Festival at Dorchester Abbey
Caricature of Stanford by Spy in Vanity Fair, from 1905, three years after the Clarinet ConcertoThe seventeenth English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire from Friday 24 May until Monday 27 May 2024. The festival's opening concert features Martin Yates conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme which includes Stanford's Clarinet Concerto with soloist Michael Collins, Doreen Carwithen's Cotswold Suite, Holst's early Cotswold Symphony and the premiere of a new suite from the music RVW wrote for performances of Shakespeare's Richard II in Stratford in 1912-13.Other events during the weekend include violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist Peter Cartwright in Holst, Bliss, Howells, Farrar and Stanford's Violin Sonata, tenor Brian Thorsett and pianist Richard Masters in Finzi, Ireland, USA-based English composer Frank E Tours (1877-1963) and Arthur Somervell's Maud, the Godwine Choir in a mixed programme including Howells, Havergal Brian and Holst's Hymns from the Rig Veda, plus concerts from the Flutes and Frets Duo, pianists […]
2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
[…] And as part of their working brief, this fine deuce of The Upright Gilders also restored the instrument’s ornate façade especially the crown and cymbelstern, a star connected to six bells, which adds an extra special festive ‘ring’ to music at Christmastide (ending on the feast of the Epiphany - Saturday, 6th January) and, of course, other such important dates in the Church’s calendar. Organ Re-Born! Nicholas Chalmers conducting the BBC Singers at the Herbert Howells concert (Photo: Bill Smith / Norwich Cathedral)A 102-stop wide-ranging pipe organ, the smallest pipe is the length of a pencil while the largest, a staggering 32 feet. It was originally built by the Norwich-based firm of Norman & Beard and installed in 1899 although parts of the organ date back to the 17th century But dig further into history and you’ll find that there are references to an organ in Norwich Cathedral (dedicated to […]
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