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Earthdrawn Skies (CD Review)
by Karl NehringHildegard von Bingen: Columba aspexit (arr. Alex Fortes); Eleanor Alberga: String Quartet No. 1; Komitas Vardapet: Armenian Folk Songs (arr. Sergei Aslamazian) - Yergink Ampel A (It’s Cloudy); Haprpan (Festive Song); Shoushigi (For Shoushing); Echmiadzni Bar (Dance from Echmiadznin); Kaqavik (The Partridge); Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor Op. 56, “Voces Intimae.” Aizuri Quartet (Emma Frucht and Miho Saegusa violins; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Karen Ouzounian, cello). Azica ACD-71359 Having never heard of the Aizuri Quartet before receiving this disc for review, I was not quite sure what to expect. The program seemed to be a bit unusual, too, what with music from Hildegard, Komitas, and Sibelius – familiar names, but not ones I would have expected to find together on the same program – plus a quartet from a composer whose name was unfamiliar to me, Eleanor Alberga. Opening the booklet that came with the CD, I found these words of explanation from Aizuri’s cellist, Karen Ouzounian: “Earthdrawn Skies explores […]
2021-11-16 17:05:26
Counter-tenor Hugh Cutting wins the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards
2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards winners: Helen Charlston, Hugh Cutting, Laura Perešivana - (Photo Emma Brown Photography At a ceremony on Sunday night (14 November) the counter-tenor Hugh Cutting was announced as winner of the 66th Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the first counter-tenor to do so. The semi-finals and finals of this year's awards took place at Henry Wood Hall in front of a jury that included baritone Sir Thomas Allen, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, soprano Valerie Masterson, tenor Ian Partridge and pianist James Baillieu. Hugh Cutting is a member of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio, we heard him last year in Purcell with the English Concert [see my review], and he has been recording Purcell's odes with the King's Consort [see my review]. He was accompanied by George Ireland, and sang an aria from Handel's Agrippina, d'Indy Magrigal, two of Dvorak's Biblical Songs, an extract from George Benjamin's Written […]
2021-11-16 11:07:24
Counter-tenor Hugh Cutting wins the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards
2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards winners: Helen Charlston, Hugh Cutting, Laura Perešivana - (Photo Emma Brown Photography At a ceremony on Sunday night (14 November) the counter-tenor Hugh Cutting was announced as winner of the 66th Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the first counter-tenor to do so. The semi-finals and finals of this year's awards took place at Henry Wood Hall in front of a jury that included baritone Sir Thomas Allen, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, soprano Valerie Masterson, tenor Ian Partridge and pianist James Baillieu. Hugh Cutting is a member of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio, we heard him last year in Purcell with the English Concert [see my review], and he has been recording Purcell's odes with the King's Consort [see my review]. He was accompanied by George Ireland, and sang an aria from Handel's Agrippina, d'Indy Magrigal, two of Dvorak's Biblical Songs, an extract from George Benjamin's Written […]
2021-09-14 00:00:00
Vaughan Williams: Anniversary Collector Edition & five more Serenades to Music
[…] for orchestra alone; but none have the magic of the original for 16 soloists and orchestra. The very fine Old King Cole [unfortunately, the individual movements are no tracked] and On Wenlock Edge are Decca recordings from the 1950s and this is claimed to be the first issue on CD of the latter. The American tenor, George Moran, was very popular in the UK at that time but, for me, he doesn't match Ian Partridge on his EMI recording. But Ivor Newton and London String Quartet offer performances the equal of any I have heard. All in all a nostalgic success. Not much can be said for Song of Thanksgiving, rather forgettable second-rate Vaughan Williams, also recorded at Abbey Road. [Ironically, EMI's issue of this recording, a fill-up to Sir Adrian's white-hot 1949 recording of the Sixth Symphony, is already posted here on MIMIC.] Now for some more recordings […]
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