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British opera singer (1910-2006)
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2023-12-01 00:00:00
Chamber Music for Strings (Coull, Dante, Duke, Goldner, Jean Sibelius, New Zealand String Quartets & Ironwood)
Edward Elgar and Frank Bridge:01 - 03 Edward Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, op.84 (1919) [37'37]04 - 06 Frank Bridge: Piano Quintet in D minor (1912) [31'53]Allan Schiller- piano, Coull Quartet (Roger Coull and Philip Gallaway- violins, David Curtis- viola, John Todd- cello)ASV CDDCA678 [recorded August 1988; CD issued 1996][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: The Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, UKRecording engineer: Martin Haskell; Producer: Roy EmersonEdward Elgar, Frank Bridge and William Walton:01 - 03 Edward Elgar: String Quartet in E minor, op.83 (1918) [29'16]04 - 06 Frank Bridge: Three Idylls for String Quartet, H.67 (1906) [15'03]07 - 10 William Walton: String Quartet in A minor (1947) [28'09]Coull Quartet (Roger Coull and Philip Gallaway- violins, David Curtis- viola, John Todd- cello)Hyperion Helios CDH55218 [December 1993; this re-issue 2006][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, LondonRecording engineer and Producer: Garry […]
2023-07-30 10:58:00
Music of the Muslim counterculture
[…] achieved iconic status as a rare counterculture celebration of Sufism? Ian Whiteman: No one had a plan. We just played what we wanted to play. Initially I fitted into The Action well, as we had a shared love of Motown and the keyboard meant we could play much more than a voice, one guitar, bass and drums allowed. They were a very close group of friends who had grown up together in Kentish Town but I never felt an outsider. Everyone at that point wanted some kind of transcendent music and we borrowed from wherever to achieve that. The music we began to play wasn't the sophisticated jazz that I had loved so much, but we borrowed simple soulful jazz themes that we could manage like Coltrane's Equinox for example and his exquisite India. And after the late Martin Stone joined we began a kind of meshed […]
2022-04-22 09:55:05
Songs of Loneliness: Noah Max's haunting and disturbing chamber music on a disc from Toccata Classics
[…] It Comes in Waves for solo piano (2018-2019) [11:24]Noah Max - Cornucopia: Three Bagatelles for Solo Oboe (2020) [5:38]Noah Max - Vignette for piano trio (2018-2019) [6:02]Raymond Brien (clarinet)Philip Haworth (oboe)Zoe Solomon (piano)Members of the Brompton Quartet (Maja Horvat, violin, Kinga Wojdalska, viola, Wallis Power, cello)The Barbican Piano Trio (Sophie Lockett, violin, Robert Max, cello, James Kirby, piano)Recorded 5-6 October 2020, SJE Arts, St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford, 3-4 November 2020, St Silas' Church, Kentish Town, LondonTOCCATA CLASSICS TOCC0638 1CD [62:13] 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 Rivales: Veronique Gens and Sandrine Piau celebrate two eminent personalities of 18th century French opera - record review Unforgettable: Pärt and White from SANSARA […]
2020-12-01 15:56:40
In Motion: United Strings of Europe's debut disc features three contemporary works alongside two classics in a strongly coloured programme
[…] disc for you. Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828), arr. Julian Azkoul - Quartetsatz, D703 (1820) [8:34]Matthew Hindson (born 1968) - Maralinga (2009/2011) [13:29]Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), arr. Julian Azkoul - Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid [11:02]Arturo Corales (born 1973) - Señores, les voy a contar… (2010) [5:05]Gareth Farr (born 1968), arr. Julian Azkoul - Mondo Rondo (1997) [11:36]Amalia Hall (violin)United Strings of EuropeJulian Azkoul (director)Franck Fontcouberte (conductor)Recorded March 2020, Church of St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, LondonBIS-2529 1 Hybrid SACD [50.44] Elsewhere on this blog Revolving Rondo: Nils Klöfver's engaging recital explores the work of virtuoso guitarist composers from the 16th century to the present day - Cd review From Handel's contemporaries to a forgotten Malcolm Arnold opera: I chat to conductor John Andrews about reviving neglected music - interview Ohrwurm: recorder player Tabea Debus delightful debut recital on Delphian […]
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