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American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist
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2022-09-29 04:00:00
Violin Concertos by Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann & Ernst (Stanley Ritchie, Joshua Rifkin, The Bach Ensemble)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 7 No. 5, RV 208aJohann Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Weimar (1696-1715)Violin Concerto in B-flat major, Op. 1 No. 1Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)Violin Concerto in G minor, TWV 51-g1Johann Sebastien Bach (1685-1750)Violin Concerto in D minor (after BWV 1052)Stanley Ritchie, ViolinJoshua Rifkin, The Bach Ensemble (Period Instruments)Decca L'Oiseau Lyre 421 442-2 [Flac & Scans]
2022-07-11 19:18:06
Hamelin plays Bolcom’s Rags
William Bolcom – The Complete Rags Marc-André Hamelin Hyperion Records William Bolcom has been an important exponent of the ragtime revival. He helped to mount Scott Joplin’s ragtime opera Treemonisha, has performed Joplin and much of the ragtime repertoire. Bolcom may have had a hand in Joshua Rifkin’s famed Joplin recordings, which were used […]
2022-03-21 05:48:00
[…] in the late nineteenth century, at which time audiences crowned him the “King of Ragtime.” But like so many composers before and after him, the fashion for his syncopated rhythms diminished steadily after his death in 1917, with jazz, blues, bebop, swing, rhythm-and-blues, rock ’n’ roll, and the like coming into their own. Then something funny happened. In the early 1970’s Joplin’s music came back into vogue with a best-selling record album by pianist Joshua Rifkin, followed by the success of the Paul Newman/Robert Redford film The Sting, which featured pianist/composer Marvin Hamlisch doing Joplin tunes on the soundtrack. This was doubly ironic since the movie was set in the midst of the Great Depression, decades after the decline in popularity of Joplin’s ragtime. Yet the music fit the mood of the film, so it worked, and helped to create a new Joplin Renaissance, with a slew of new Joplin […]
2021-09-10 08:19:00
Mixed blessing: Bach's St Matthew Passion at the BBC Proms with never quite solves the problem of how to fill the Royal Albert Hall with this profoundly contemplative work
[…] players each, two choirs of 17 singers each, plus the boys from St Paul's Cathedral Choir, director of music Andrew Carwood, for the ripieno. All well and good, and all traditional. Except, of course, that it isn't. Such a style of performance is a modern invention. Bach's passions were written to be performed during the Lutheran services in Leipzig, where there was a tradition of using a small group of soloists. In 1994, Joshua Rifkin directed the St Matthew Passion at the BBC Proms with just a group of soloists, who sang everything. This is a style of performance that Bach would have recognised, and even if he had used more than eight singers (eight soloists and eight ripieno would work well), the arias would be sung be singers who were also singing the choruses and chorales, both the Evangelist and Christ sang arias as well. The result is […]
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