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French woman pianist and composer
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2023-08-03 03:30:00
[…] piano was a novel one back in 1994. The end result is pleasant, but in the end, never quite seems to catch fire. The music is lovely enough, especially in some of some of its slower passages (e.g., the second movement Adagio of Sonata II), but some of the allegro movements come across as slightly undercaffeinated. The recording quality is excellent, as we have come to expect from ECM. The Future is Female: Vol. 3 At Play. Hélène de Montgeroult: Sonata No.9 in F sharp minor; Cécile Chaminade: Thème varié, Op. 98; Grazyna Bacewicz: Scherzo; Chen Yi: Guessing; Franghiz Ali-Zadeh: Music for Piano; Pauline Oliveros: Quintuplets Play Pen: Homage to Ruth Crawford; Hannah Kendall: On the Chequer'd Field Array'd; Aida Shirazi: Albumblatt; Regina Harris Baiocchi: Piano Poems. Sarah Cahill, piano. First Hand Records FHR133 Volume 3 of The Future Is Female marks the completion of this recording project undertaken by the American pianist Sarah Cahill (b. 1960). As we noted in our review of Volume 2, which can […]
2022-11-28 13:41:32
Who was Hélène de Montgeroult? How the piano saved the French composer’s life in revolutionary France
Hélène de Montgeroult risked the guillotine during the French Revolution – but there’s far more to this talented composer than her remarkable survival, as pianist Clare Hammond tells Rebecca Franks
2022-10-31 12:10:14
In our December issue we celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of César Franck. The Belgian composer’s popularity may have waxed and waned over the decades: but, says Roger Nichols, Franck’s colourful and melodic music is due a reappraisal. Elsewhere in the magazine, as Thomas Adès’ new ballet The Dante Project is released on Opus Arte, the composer talks to Steph Power about drawing inspiration from both the past and the present. And Rebecca Franks takes a deep dive into the life and work of the composer Hélène de Montgeroult, whose skills at the piano saved her from the guillotine. We also look at how Hubert Parry’s evergreen hymn Jerusalem has attracted an eclectic array of arrangements, from Elgar to Emerson, Lake and Palmer: and Erik Levi examines how the British establishment shunned many German composers during World War I. Among our regular features, Jeremy Pound selects the best recordings of […]
2022-10-22 11:00:07
Works by William Grant Still, George Walker and William L Dawson burst with life, while the 18th-century French composer’s bristling studies look forward• The three composers on the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s
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