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English conductor, organist and composer (1895-1967)
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2024-03-07 04:30:00
Dvořák: Violin & Piano Concertos (CD Review)
[…] light of Dvořák’s newly developed but deeply sincere friendship and admiration for Brahms, the latter’s influence is as prominent in the Violin Concerto as the flavour of Czech folk music, though neither of these elements in any way diminishes the striking originality and individuality which stamp the work as no one but Dvořák’s.” The concerto was a specialty of Ricci’s; he performed it numerous times in concerts worldwide and had made a previous recording with Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra. His familiarity with and affection for the work come through in this beautiful performance, which should go far to win converts to this overlooked masterpiece. The Piano Concerto is pleasant and entertaining, if not quite in the same exalted class as the Violin Concerto. The Moravian-American pianist Rudolf Firkušný (1912-1994) was especially fond of the piece and like Ricci with the Violin Concerto, Firkušný often played it in in concert and recorded it several […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-20 20:24:21
Lookouts Aloft! A Composer Puts Out to Sea
[caption id="attachment_33427" align="alignleft" width="228"] Smyth in 1901 by Sargent[/caption] Dame Ethel Smyth (1854-1944) said, “I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs, not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.” This is the story of a woman — in the long history of women stifled by important or influential men in their lives or eras — who did the big and difficult job over and over. Ethel Smyth, a strong-minded musician, fought against her father’s pontifical noise and ‘put out to sea’ (or at least crossed the channel) in 1877 at age 19 to study at the Conservatorium in Leipzig. One of the top Smyth scholars, Amy Zigler, has a brief biography available HERE. BMInt is happy to publish this preview in the context of a Cappella Clausura’s performance of Smyth’s Mass in D at Emmanuel Church at 4pm on March […]
2023-10-27 00:00:00
Dohnanyi, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Rawsthorne and British Trombone Concertos (Christian Lindberg, Malcolm Sargent et al)
[…] concerto was written for Christian Lindberg and in 1989 he recorded the version with Wind Band [op.114b] for the short-lived British label, LDR - subsequently reissued by Albany Records. That recording was recently posted on the Susato blog.Alan Rawsthorne:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No. 1 (rev. 1942) * [18'36]04 - 07 Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951) ^ [27'40]Moura Lympany- piano, Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Menges; Denis Matthews- piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm SargentWarner Music 9029654294 [recorded May* and August^ 1956 for EMI; download released 2020][digital download; flacs, cover scan, booklet from earlier EMI issue]Recording venues: No.1 Studio, Abbey Road * and Kingsway Hall ^, LondonRecording engineer: Christopher Parker; Producer: Raymond LeppardThe booklet comes from an earlier EMI CD Rawsthorne release, CDM 566935-2, and was sourced from the internet. That issue lead with Practical Cats and that recording has also been reissued by Warner Music in an even […]
2023-10-13 00:00:00
Britten, Chausson, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Rubbra, Schumann et al: Orchestral & Vocal Works (Malcolm Sargent et al)
01 - 03 Claude Debussy: La Mer. Three Symphonic Sketches* [22'57]04 - 07 Ernest Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, op.19^ [28'05]08 - 10 Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade. Three Poems ~ [16'06]BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent *; Janet Baker- mezzo, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov ^; Margaret Price- soprano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent ~Carlton Classics (originally BBC Radio Classics 1565691742) [recorded September 1963 *, April 1975 ^ and August 1965 ~; original CD release 1996, this download 2000][digital download; flacs, cover scan and poor-quality booklet from the original issue derived from internet]Recording venues: BBC Promenade Concerts, Royal Albert Hall *~ and Royal Festival Hall ^, LondonRecording engineers: BBC Transcription Service; Producers: Paul Reding *^ and James Burnett ~Carlton Classics originally issued this collection on their BBC Radio Classics CD label in 1996. Some how they appear to have retained rights to these BBC […]
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