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British conductor and cellist (1899-1970)
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2024-04-03 14:17:00
Does it have integrity and relevance?
Shortly after it was released I bought the young Finn Klaus Mäkelä's new complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies recorded for Decca. Sibelius symphonies are very well represented in my large CD collection, in fact I have more Sibelius symphony cycles than for any other composer. Yet I have returned to Mäkelä's interpretations a surprising number of times. No, they will not replace the accounts of Sanderling, Colin Davis, Barbirolli, and others. But they are not worse or better: because subjective dualist judgements of better or worse, like or dislike, good and bad, definitive or otherwise, etc etc no longer mean anything to me. There is no concrete reality in a music performance, only what we individually perceive as reality. A performance is an endless flow of constantly changing conditions. The score is not the performance, and the performance is not the score. Between score and performance lie an infinite number of overlapping […]
2024-03-29 03:30:00
From Wikipedia The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, is a work for voices and orchestra in two parts compo
2023-09-08 04:00:00
Arnold, Chausson, Elgar, Gurney, Hurd, Joncières & Simpson: Vocal & Orchestral Works (Roderick Williams, Felicity & Ben Palmer, Richard Hickox et al)
[…] - 10 The Music Makers op.69 * [38'51]11 - 15 Sea Pictures, op.37 [23'18]Felicity Palmer- contralto, London Symphony Chorus *, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard HickoxEMI CDM565126-2 [recorded May 1986; first issued 1987][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Watford Town Hall (Colloseum), UKRecording engineer and Producer: Brian CulverhouseIn his Elgar's Sea Pictures feature in last month's Gramophone magazine, Andrew Farach-Cohen, not unnaturally, plumped for Janet Baker's recording with John Barbirolli as his top choice. But he also included this recording by Felicity Palmer with Richard Hickox in his top four as The Luxurious Choice and also had good words for the Canadian Marie-Nicole Lemieux with Paul Daniel and this rare recording by a male voice by Roderick Williams with Martin Yates. The latter is one of my favourites along with the Baker and Alice Coote with Mark Elder.Download from Mega.
2023-07-12 10:14:00
When Elgar met Pink Floyd
During my recent listening session with the celebrated recording producer Christopher Bishop a fascinating anecdote emerged about the legendary EMI Barbirolli/Janet Baker Dream of Gerontius. For the sessions in 1964 the producer was Ronald Kinoch Anderson with Peter Bown as balance engineer. Peter Bown was highly-skilled at the mixing desk and more of that anon, but his experience and expertise was mainly in rock music. Which meant he would struggle with reading Elgar's score for the oratorio. So Christopher Bishop, who had just joined EMI to start his career as a producer, was delegated to sit with Peter Bown in the depths of Manchester's Free Trade Hall to interpret the score. Christopher was full of praise for Peter Bown's work at the sessions; which is confirmed by the 1964 recording remaining today as the definitive version of Elgar's masterpiece.That is Peter Bown (1926-1997) in the photo above. He was one of the […]
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