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English classical guitarist and lutenist (1933–2020)
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2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
[…] baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the American violinist/conductor Yehudi Menuhin, who, incidentally, spent most of his performing career in Britain, the Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter and the Russian cellist Mstislav (Slava) Rostropovich as well as the likes of Kathleen Ferrier, Dennis Brain, Clifford Curzon and the Amadeus String Quartet. A coterie of emerging talent made their way to Suffolk, too, that included Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström, the American pianist Murray Perahia and the English-born virtuoso classical guitarist/lutenist Julian Bream while the inaugural festival of 1948 witnessed a staging of Britten’s opera Albert Herring at the Jubilee Hall and the first performance of his cantata Saint Nicolas at the Parish Church with a trio of lectures delivered by E.M. Forster on George Crabbe, Tyrone Guthrie on theatre and Sir Kenneth Clark on East Anglian painters. Following the deaths of Britten and Pears the artistic direction fell to a coterie of musicians who knew both men […]
2022-07-19 15:40:39
A native of Inverness, prominent Scottish luthier Brian Rattray initially planned a career in architecture, despite having had an interest in instrument building. He studied in Edinburgh, and his first job took him to the Swedish city of Malmö in 1963. Rattray made his first forays into lutherie after he heard guitarist Julian Bream's […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-06-18 07:11:59
[…] of records. He had an easy relationship with guitarist Xuefei, and before the recording went down to her home to talk and play, as well as refining a few things. Guitarist John Williams looked over the concerto a few years ago and Williams was also a big influence on Xuefei as he heard her play when she was still in China. And there are other links, as John (Brunning) has interviewed both John Williams and Julian Bream, and he first met Xuefei when he was interviewing her.Xufei Yang will be playing one of John Brunning's Romances with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra in Yerevan on 23 August 2022, and she will play the first movement of Concerto Magna Carta with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall on 20 September 2022John Brunning: The complete works for guitar - Xuifei Yang, Johannes Moser, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Clark Rundell - Platoon Music [LinkTree]Never miss out on future posts by following […]
2022-05-20 10:45:28
Magical places: Sam Cave's Refracted Resonance explores contemporary music for classical guitar
Refracted Resonance: Tristan Murail, George Holloway, Christopher Fox, Horaţiu Rădulescu, Sam Cave; Sam Cave; Metier(★★★★½) Reviewed 18 May 2022 A rather magical disc in which classical guitarist and composer Sam Cave presents music by five contemporary composers that takes the guitar to some evocative and aetherial places This disc from guitarist Sam Cave, Refracted Resonance on metier, features six contemporary works for classical guitar, each of which explores, in a different way, the possibilities of sound and texture that the instrument can offer. So we have Tristan Murail's Tellur, George Holloway's Guitar Sonata and Second Guitar Sonata, Christopher Fox's Chile, Horaţiu Rădulescu's Subconscious Wave and Sam Cave's own Refracted Meditations III. Cave begins his introductory note in the CD booklet with a quotation from Julian Bream, made in a 1976 BBC documentary, "…plucked sound has a remarkable quality because the actual pluck is the apex of the sound, and thereafter it dies, and […]
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