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2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
Frank Bridge - The Sea:01 - 04 The Sea. Suite [20'41]05 Summer. Tone Poem [9'37]06 Cherry Ripe [3'23]07 Enter Spring. Rhapsody [21'22]08 Lament [4'27]Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesEMI CDM5658552 [recorded July 1975; CD issued 1989][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UKRecording engineer: John Kurlander; Producer: John WillanMany of the recordings in my occasional posts were ripped in the late nineties or early noughties but I then had no means of scanning the artwork. Now it seems increasingly possible to download good artwork from the internet making posting of the recordings a possibility. The above recording and the next are cases in point. I am indebted to friend Danse de Puck for allowing me to use her artwork scans that appeared in a post on a private blog for the next recording.Ralph Vaughan Williams:01 - 09 Job. A Masque for Dancing […]
2023-10-31 15:57:47
This month, we mark the centenary of one of music’s most iconic figures. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Maria Callas, Ashutosh Khandekar examines those special qualities that set the Greek soprano apart from all others. Another feature that should make you tick is Misha Donat‘s profile of Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, the madcap inventor of the metronome and much besides. Elsewhere, Simon Heighes has a listen to the first-ever near-complete recording of Handel’s Messiah, made in 1906. And Tom Stewart learns how the Glyndebourne Academy is providing rare opportunities to enter the world of opera. Owen Mortimer finds out how the Symphony Orchestra of India is rapidly winning fans at home and abroad, and, for this month’s BBC Music Magazine interview, conductor Kirill Karabits talks to Rebecca Franks on the eve of his final season in Bournemouth. Simon Broughton is off to Budapest to get a […]
2022-07-21 06:42:00
2022/23 classical music season at Perth Concert Hall
Perth Concert HallPerth Concert Hall was a Millennium project, raising £20 million to build a concert hall with an auditorium and studio. The hall opened in September 2005 and is known for its fine acoustics. The hall has recently announced its 2022/23 classical music season programmed by James Waters, Creative Director for Classical Music for Horsecross Arts, the creative organisation and charity behind Perth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre, The hall's 2022/23 classical music season opens with Scottish Opera in Massenet's Thérèse with Justina Gringyte in the title role, and the Dunedin Consort in Mozart's Mass in C minor with soloists Anna Dennis, Lucy Crowe, Benjamin Hulett, and Robert Davies conducted by John Butt.The orchestral series opens with violinist Nicola Benedetti and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Maxim Emelyanychev in the world premiere of James MacMillan's Violin Concerto No. 2 plus music by John Adams and Tchaikovsky, then Joana Carneiro conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony […]
2022-07-14 06:25:30
Summer at Snape
This year, Summer at Snape returns to Snape Maltings with a month of daily concerts featuring outstanding artists and ensembles from the worlds of classical music, jazz, blues, folk, and pop from 31 July to 31 August, and the Dome Stage returns with 20 free outdoor performances in a special setting by the river from Wednesday – Sunday throughout August.The hall will be welcoming the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson, as part of its European and US tour. Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme that includes Bliss' ballet Checkmate alongside RVW's The Lark Ascending. Other visiting orchestras include the Academy of Ancient Music, the Philharmonia in ballets by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, and Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner. Ben Palmer conducts the Manchester Camerata in a live accompaniment to the Chaplin's film The Kid, whilst the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra is playing an […]
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