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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-13 18:00:42
Takács Quartet Debuts Flow
The renowned Takács Quartet has a zest for new music and unconventional partnerships. They’ve collaborated with bandoneon standout Julien Labro, composer and The National vocalist Bryce Dessner, vocalist Clarice Assad, and actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep. For its February 16th Celebrity Series concert at Jordan Hall [tickets HERE], the foursome offers Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Flow sandwiched between Haydn’s “Sunrise” quartet and the second of Beethoven’s Razumovskys. In Flow, Harvard Divinity School graduate Ngwenyama embraces the cosmos…or lets it embrace her. BMInt spoke with her and and Takács violinist Harumi Rhodes. FLE: We first met in 1999 when you gave a super viola recital at Harvard Musical Association. You probably don’t remember the event, but surely the baked beans, Welsh rabbit and ale must have traumatized you. [caption id="attachment_57592" align="alignright" width="425"] Composer and Violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama. (Mark Morgan photo)[/caption] NN: I do remember the recital, and the flavor wasn’t bad. Nice to […]
2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
[…] scans were originally posted on a private blog by friend Ludovicus and are posted here with his kind permission.CD5:01 - 04 Symphony No. 9 in C major 'The Great', D944 [61'55]IMP Classics PCD943 [recorded June 1990; CD issued 1990][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet for alternative release sourced from internet]CD1 - CD5: English Sinfonia conduced by Charles GrovesRecording venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, LondonRecording engineers: Michael Sheady (CD 2 & 3) and Simon Rhodes (CD 1, 4 & 5); Producer: John Boyden.Welsh Dances:01 - 04 Alun Hoddinot: Four Welsh Dances. Set No.1, op.15 (1958) * [7'29]05 Alun Hoddinot: Overture 'Jack Straw', op.35 (1964-1980) ^ [5'02] 06 - 11 Alun Hoddinot: Concerto Grosso No.2, op.46 (1966) [12'54]12 - 14 Alun Hoddinot: Investiture Dances, op.66 (1966) ' [7'46]15 - 18 Alun Hoddinot: Welsh Dances, Set No.2, op.64 (1969) ' [9'03]19 - 22 William Mathias: Celtic Dances, op.60 (1972) ' [9'03]23 […]
2023-11-17 05:00:00
Bainbridge, Lloyd, Simpson, Vaughan Williams, Welsh Favourites & Tuba Concertos (Horenstein, Penny, Tilson Thomas et al)
[…] Church. New Southgate, LondonRecording engineer: Antony Askew; Producer: Philip LaneRalph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Film Music:01 49th Parallel - Prelude [2'18]02 - 08 Story of a Flemish Farm. Suite [26'21]09 - 16 Coastal Command. Suite [22'31]17 - 19 Three Portraits from The England of Elizabeth [16'20]RTE Concert Orchestra conducted by Andrew PennyMarco Polo 8.223665 [recorded November 1993; CD issued 2000][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: National Concert Hall, Dublin, IrelandRecording engineer: Simon Rhodes; Producer: Chris CrakerTuba Concertos:01 - 03 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958): Concerto for Bass Tuba in F minor [13'26]04 William Lovelock (1899-1986): Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra [13'59]05 - 10 Alec Wilder (1907-1981) (arr. Rosenthal): Tuba Suite No. 1 'Effie the Elephant' [13'10]11 - 13 Michael Kenny (1939-): Tuba Concerto [14'53]14 - 17 Christer Danielsson (1942-1989): Concertante Suite for tuba and four horns [13'05]Peter Whish-Wilson- tuba, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by David StanhopeABC Classics […]
2023-10-12 04:00:44
It’s all part of their gloopy multiverse, explains band member Nick Rhodes
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