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2024-03-05 12:00:00
Mike Wheeler listens to Valentin Silvestrov, Rachmaninov, Manuel de Falla and Musorgsky from Russian pianist Victor Maslov
2024-02-22 15:58:53
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite – Falla: El Retablo de Maese Pedro album review – fascinating and intense
Alard/Mahler CO/Heras-Casado(Harmonia Mundi)An intriguing comparison of sound worlds that includes Falla’s Harpsichord Concerto – one of the lost masterpieces of 1920s modernism Composing Pulcinella was, said
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-06 21:26:14
“No Choice but Love: Songs of the LGBTQ+ Community”
[…] Pauly photo)[/caption] The album opens with the renowned song composer Ben Moore’s deeply engaging four-song Love Remained, based on highly personal texts by different authors, including Harvey Milk, about being gay in a family, in American politics, and so on. The album closes with a separate song by Moore using an evocative poem (which Ferring sent him) by the Jamaican-American tenor Terrence Chin-Loy. In between come items by composers from a few generations back—Ethel Smyth, Falla, Poulenc, Britten—and more recent ones by Jennifer Higdon (lines from Walt Whitman’s famous “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”), Ricky Ian Gordon (to texts by Langston Hughes), and Willie Alexander III (to verses by James Agee that Samuel Barber and Morten Lauridsen have also set). Gordon’s two songs, from his 1993 cycle Genius Child are absolute keepers, and I expect we’ll be hearing them in other recitals. Both set Hughes’s poems captivatingly, the […]
2023-12-28 04:30:00
Phantasy in Blue (CD Review)
by Karl NehringTchaikovsky (arr. Stefan Malzew): Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33; Vivaldi (arr. Itai Sobol): Cello Concerto in A minor, RV418; de Falla (arr, Sebastian Gottschick): Siete canciones populares españolas ("Seven Spanish Folksongs"); Shostakovich (arr. Levon Atovmian): Prelude from the Gadfly, Op. 97; Elegy from The Human Comedy, Op. 37; Shostakovich (arr. Louis-Noël Fontaine): Waltz No. 2 from Suite for Variety Orchestra; Gershwin (arr. Malzew): Phantasy in Blue (after Rhapsody in Blue). Alban Gerhardt, cello; Alliage Quintett (Daniel Gauthier, soprano saxophone; Miguel Vallés Mateu, alto saxophone; Simon Hanrath, tenor saxophone; Sebastian Pottmeier, baritone saxophone; Jang Eun Bae, piano). Hyperion CDA68419 Having been quite favorably impressed by a recording of the two Shostakovich cello concertos that the German cellist Alban Gerhardt (b. 1969) recorded for Hyperion three years ago (you can see that review here), plus being intrigued by the both the eclectic program and the unusual combination of instruments Gerhardt had assembled (cello and saxophone quartet plus piano playing […]
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