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2024-02-16 00:00:00
Some lesser-known 20th century Cello Concertos
Hungarian Cello Concertos:01 - 03 Mátyás Seiber: Tre Pezzi for cello & orchestra (1956) [19'57]04 - 06 Antal Dorati: Cello Concerto (1977) [33'42]07 - 09 Béla Bartók (arr. Tibor Serly): Viola Concerto (1945) [23'49]Raphael Wallfisch- cello, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Gábor Takács-NagyNimbus NI 5919 [recorded January 2014; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, WalesRecording engineer: Huw Thomas; Producer: Adrian FarmerBritish Cello Concertos:01 - 02 John Joubert: Cello Concerto, op.171 (2012) [23'02]03 - 06 Robert Simpson: Cello Concerto (1991) [28'40]07 - 09 Christopher Wright: Cello Concerto (2011) [18'56]Raphael Wallfisch- cello, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by William BoughtonLyrita SRCD344 [recorded December 2013; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, WalesRecording engineer: Huw Thomas; Producer: Adrian FarmerSainsbury and Foulds:01 - 03 Lionel Sainsbury: Cello Concerto, op.27 (1999) * [33'22]04 - 06 John Foulds: Cello Concerto in […]
2021-10-12 07:38:10
To enter this music is to enter a different world, one that you wonder why you never discovered it earlier: Martin Jones plays Elisabeth Lutyens' piano music on Resonus Classics
[…] 1939 (Photo National Portrait Gallery) Lutyens was the daughter of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and his wife, Lady Emily (neé Bulwer-Lytton, daughter of the Earl of Lytton who was Viceroy of India), and by the time she was in her mid-teens she was studying at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, but 1922 saw a trip to India with her mother (who was heavily involved in the Theosophist movement). Lutyens subsequently studied with John Foulds and then Harold Darke at the Royal College of Music, but her outlook was always European, being drawn to Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School though much later she was tell her Robert Saxton that is was the fantasias of Purcell which 'started me off on the idea of serial music'. We begin with Seven Preludes for Piano which were commissioned by Jeremy Brown and premiered by him at Wigmore Hall in 1978. Each […]
2021-10-11 07:10:12
Spiorachas – A High Place: Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach
[…] Alasdair My Vision is Blurred - Chaidh Moill air mo Lèirsinn by Fearchar Mac Iain Òig Misty Corrie - Cumha Coire Cheathaich by Duncan Bàn MacIntyre // Unknown AirAsainte - Cur Cùlaibh ri Asainte by Alasdair MacLeod Glen Cuach - Iain Ghlinn Cuaich Reel - S toigh leam fhìn Buntàta 's Ìm // Tuireadh Iain Ruaidh Griogal - Griogal CridheMo Mhàthair Mo Mhàthair by Neil MacLean Charlie Grey (Hardanger D’Amore)Joseph Peach (Piano, Harmonium)Recorded by Mattie Foulds at Castlesound Studios Available from Bandcamp, and streaming platforms [link tree]. Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog Intense and redemptive: Janacek's Jenufa in the new production at Covent Garden - opera review If we continue to ignore these composers and their music then we […]
2021-03-15 13:44:00
Grammy takes a Dame Ethel trip
[…] hall. We should always be innovating, but that doesn’t mean we need to throw out so much of what we do as a field that is really wonderful.BS: That is very well said indeed James. Let's conclude by returning to The Prison. In the past good and deserving works have suffered from the over-hyping of revival performances, which has meant they have gone from hero to zero overnight. Two recent examples of this are John Foulds A World Requiem and Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony. The Prison was composed in 1930; in that year Charles Ives's Three Places in New England and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms were premiered. Your tenacious commitment to the work obviously shows you rate The Prison very highly. But tell us candidly just how good you think it is, and which better-known works would you rank it alongside?JB: I appreciate that question so much. There were […]
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