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British composer and teacher of music (1879-1962)
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2024-04-22 09:09:00
The Celestial Stranger: new song cycle inspired by Thomas Traherne's recently discovered manuscript
[…] Meditation.Traherne's The Celestial Stranger is now the inspiration for a song-cycle by composer Stephen McNeff written for tenor Gavan Ring. McNeff describes the cycle as developing "beyond the utopian world as our stranger realises the existence of tyranny and warfare - forcing them to take their leave. An obvious metaphor for what we are doing to the planet, perhaps, but no less relevant of that…". The work is a joint BBC Radio 3 and National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) commission and the Dublin premiere will be next year.Stephen McNeff's The Celestial Stranger will be premiered by Gavan Ring and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Joana Carneiro at Hodinott Hall, Cardiff on 16 May 2024 as part of a concert including Gabriel Fauré's Pelléas et Mélisande (music from the Maurice Maeterlinck that would inspire Debussy's opera), and Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. Full details from the BBC website.
2024-04-12 08:35:00
Full of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides
[…] and really leaned into the passing dissonances in the music. The Fantasia a 4 played by violin, two violas and cello, felt a little bit too violin led, as if the players could not quite get the idea of the string quartet genre out of their head. The In nomine, played by three violins, two violas and two cellos, was wonderfully full of moving parts and attractively mobile.Francesco Geminiani was active in England, Scotland and Ireland, he is one of those people that pops up all over. His Sonata No. 3 comes from a 1749 collection and the work creates a trio sonata out of a Scots song, The Last Time I came o'er the Moor. Here it was played by two violins and cello, without any supporting keyboard, which created a rather striking effect. The stylish playing gave a nice swing to the first movement, with a definite Scots […]
2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] 2005][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset and Potton Hall, Suffolk^, UKRecording engineer: Mike Clements and Eleanor Thomason^; Producer: Andrew WaltonHamilton Harty:01 A Comedy Overture [13'08]02 - 05 Fantasy Scenes from an Eastern Romance [11'56]06 - 08 Piano Concerto in B minor* [30'05]Peter Donohoe- piano*, Ulster Orchestra conducted by Takuo YuasaNaxos 8.557731 [recorded February 2005; issued 2006][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland.Recording engineer: Phil Rowlands; Producer: Tim Handley Malcolm Arnold:01 - 03 Philharmonic Concerto, op.120 [14'49]04 - 07 Fantasy on a theme of John Field, op.116 * [22'09]08 John Field: Nocturne No.7 in C major 'Reverie' * [5'02]09 - 11 Symphony No.7, op.113 [31'13]Peter Donohoe- piano *; Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin YatesDutton Epoch CDLX 7318 [recorded June 2014; issued 2015][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recording venue: RSNO […]
2024-03-19 09:58:00
[…] premiered the Sonata in E Flat for Horn and Piano, Op. 101. It is an unashamedly romantic piece, echoing late Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss, not to mention seeming to inhabit a similar world to Arnold Bax.The opening movement plunged us straight in to this world of impulsive romanticism, and this was unashamedly modern in outlook in its highly chromatic horn writing. There were were darker moments, and some of the lush piano writing of John Ireland. The slow movement opened with dramatic piano gestures and horn calls, striking indeed and Bowen brings the material back to punctuate the movements highly developed romanticism and lush harmonies. It was here that the debt to Rachmaninoff seemed to be greatest. The third movement began with a rather insouciant swagger, and we were firmly in England here, but then there were torrents of notes in the piano with long horn phrases over, working up […]
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