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Icelandic composer and conductor (1899-1968)
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2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
James McVinnie performing at the Royal Festival Hall organ with Bedroom Community - Sept 2015The Royal Festival Hall organ is 70. Built from 1950–1954 to the specification of the London County Council's consultant, Ralph Downes, it was restored and re-configured by Harrison & Harrison as part of the hall's reconstruction during 2005-2007 and it was re-inaugurated on its 60th anniversary in March 2014. Now, to celebrate the instrument's 70th birthday, organist James McVinnie has a residency at the Southbank Centre featuring organ recitals including a wide range of repertoire as well as an appearance by the James McVinnie Ensemble.Though James had played the organ once before the rebuild, he was not familiar with it until he came to play it as part of the 2014 celebrations. But he spent two years as an organ scholar at St Albans Cathedral where the organ was also designed by Ralph Downes and built by […]
2023-10-20 00:00:00
Robert Simpson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Nordic Showcase & The French Connection (Christian Lindberg, Neville Marriner et al)
The French Connection:01 - 04 Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (1917) [16'53]05 Claude Debussy: Danse sacrée et danse profane (1904) * [9'49]06 - 11 Gabriel Fauré (orch. Rabaud): Dolly Suite, op.56 (1894-97) [17'25]12 - 17 Jacques Ibert: Divertissement (1930) [15'53]Ossian Ellis-harp*, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Neville MarrinerASV CD-DCA 517 [recorded August 1982; CD issued 1994][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Abbey Road Studios, LondonRecording engineer: michael Sheady; Producer: Anthony SargentRalph Vaughan Williams:01 - 04 Symphony No. 3 'Pastoral' ^ [37'32]05 - 08 Symphony No. 4 in F minor [34'16]09 Saraband 'Helen'. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? * [9'06]David Butt Philip- tenor, BBC Symphony Chorus*; Elizabeth Watts- soprano^; BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn BrabbinsHyperion CDA68280 [recorded November and December 2018; issued 2020][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: The Colosseum, Watford, UKRecording engineer: Simon Eadon; Producer: Andrew KeenerRalph Vaughan […]
2023-10-06 00:00:00
Bruckner, Mahler, Salonen, Sibelius & A Nordic Festival (Esa-Pekka Salonen)
[…] scans]Recording venues: Culture Hall (01, 05-07), Järvenpää Hall (02-04), Studio M1 Finnish Broadcasting (08), Helsinki, FinlandRecording engineers:Jukka Heinonen (01), Robi Godzinsky (02-03), Enno Mäemets (04), Heikki Hölttä (05-08)Producers: Risto Räty (01, 05-07), Reijo Kiilunen (02), Tuija Hakkila (03), Anssi Karttunen (04), Heikki Valsta (08)A Nordic Festival:01 Hugo Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, op.19 'midsummer Vigil' [13'08]02 Jean Sibelius: Valse Triste, op.44 no.1 [4'26]03 - 05 Edvard Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar, op.56. Three orchestral pieces [15'56]06 Hugo Alfvén: Ballet-pantomime 'Bergakungen', op.37 - Dance of the Shepherdess [3'55]07 Jón Leifs: Geysir. Orchestral Prelude, op.51 [7'18]08 - 09 Carl Nielsen: Maskarade, op.39 - Overture & Dance of the Cockerels [9'51]10 Armas Järnefelt: Berceuse [3'06]11 Jean Sibelius: Finlandia. Tone Poem, op.26 [7'32]Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka SalonenSony SK46668 [recorded September 1990; CD issued 1991][digital-download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, SwedenRecording engineer: Sid McLauchlan; Producer: David MottleyDownload from Mega.
2022-03-01 09:54:24
Iceland: The Eternal Music - Graham Ross and the choir of Clare College explore the contemporary music of Iceland
Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson, Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson, Sigurður Sævarsson, Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Jón Ásgeirsson, Snorri Sigfús, Jón Leifs; Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, the Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross; Harmonia Mundi Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 1 March 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) An exploration of Icelandic music from the last 50 years, centred on the approachable yet moving Requiem from Sigurður SævarssonOn this new disc from Graham Ross, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and the Dmitri Ensemble on Harmonia Mundi, they survey Icelandic music, presenting twelve works by nine composers, six living and three from the 20th century, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson, Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson, Sigurður Sævarsson, Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Jón Ásgeirsson, Snorri Sigfús, and Jón Leifs, plus an arrangement of a work by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós. The album mixes sacred and secular, music for choir and music for […]
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