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2024-02-05 07:32:00
Late romantic at Wigmore Hall: Simon Callaghan in Cyril Scott's sonata
[…] Piano Sonata No. 1 at Wigmore Hall 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 […]
2023-12-25 15:49:21
Christmas 2023
This Week in Classical Music: December 25, 2023. Christmas. We wish our listeners a Merry Christmas! On this wonderful day, we won’t bother you with disquisitions and analyses but will present some Christmas music for your pleasure – and this joyful piece is perfect for the occasion. It’s the first section of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a cantata known for the initial words of the first chorus as Jauchzet, frohlocket! (Shout for joy, exult). It was first performed on this day in 1734, in the morning, at St. Nicholas; and then in the afternoon, at St. Thomas in Leipzig: Bach, as Thomaskantor, was the music director of both churches and led both performances. What we will hear is a recording made in January of 1987 by John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir and several prominent soloists, Anne-Sophie von Otter among them. Enjoy and see you […]
2023-12-24 23:07:16
Johann Sebastian Bach - Christmas Oratorio, Part IThe English Baroque Soloists (Ensemble)Monteverdi Choir (Chorale)John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor)
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-27 16:40:28
The Last Transcendentalist
[…] from other families. By the time Dwight matriculated at Harvard, he had developed a deep enough connection to music to mourn the fact that no faculty promoted music, which remained sub rosa: a secret hobby, pursued in one’s leisure time, bordering on idleness. From 1836, when Dwight graduated from Harvard Divinity School until 1843, when Dwight resolved to quit the ministry, Transcendentalism captured Dwight’s imagination and soul. Meaning, exactly, what? Although he emphasizes Emerson’s Nature, Gardiner’s The Music of Nature and Dwight’s plunge into the writings of German Romantics, ably translating some of them, Faucett nicely leaves Transcendentalism vague. The real point of Dwight’s immersion in Transcendentalism, Faucett implies, is substituting music for religion and discovering in Gardiner that “music can be described.” The deep culture of spiritual self-improvement that Dwight inherited from New England merged with Kant’s philosophy and Schelling’s aesthetics to convince Dwight that the human soul actively […]
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