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2024-02-26 16:26:06
SCRUTINY | The Toronto Symphony Orchestra And Soloists Finesse Murphy & Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Ballets
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra and soloists deliver Kelly-Marie Murphy and Stravinsky's lesser known neoclassical ballets with impressive finesse.
2024-02-05 07:32:00
Late romantic at Wigmore Hall: Simon Callaghan in Cyril Scott's sonata
[…] on 3 February 2024 alongside a wide-ranging programme of music from Scott's era with works by Percy Grainger, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. In fact, all three of these composers connected to Scott in some way.Scott was a man of connections. He studied in Frankfurt (including piano with one of Clara Schumann's pupils), where he met Percy Grainger and they formed part of the Frankfurt Gang with Balfour Gardiner, Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter and Frederick Kelly, all of whom studied composition there with Iwan Knorr. Scott knew Stravinsky and visited him in Switzerland where Stravinsky played Scott parts of The Firebird, then a work in progress. It is speculated that Scott's fondness for constantly changing time signatures (something found in the piano sonata) influenced Stravinsky. Scott also knew Debussy, and the latter's support helped Scott with his publishers and Scott was often referred to as the English Debussy.So, the first half […]
2023-12-05 08:51:00
The Goldberg Variations Reimagined: Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque at Kings Place
The Goldberg Variations Reimagined: Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque; Kings PlaceBach/Chad Kelly: The Goldberg Variations Reimagined: Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque; Kings PlaceReviewed 3 December 2023A new orchestration of Bach for nine instruments brings out a sense of colour and style in a series of vivid reinventions, superbly playedBach was an inveterate re-worker and re-user of material, most Baroque composers were. After all, the potential audience for any piece of music was usually relatively small, unless you were one of the lucky few with a wide published circulation, so composers could reuse without constantly worrying in the way modern composers might. And when Bach reused he could be quite creative in his reworking. After all, the Christmas Oratorio, which we heard on Saturday from Masaaki Suzuki and the OAE [see my review] is almost entirely based on pre-existing material.So what might Bach have done to the Goldberg Variations? This thought kept popping into my head as […]
2023-11-10 21:21:48
PREVIEW | NAISA Presents Kelly Ruth’s Threads Of An Unwritten Future In Person & Online
From December 7 to 9, artist Kelly Ruth will present her work Threads of an Unwritten Future in person and online at NAISA, New Adventures in Sound Art.
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