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2023-12-31 09:22:00
2023 in record reviews: 17th century Venice as a gay haven, Dichterliebe Reimagined, Elgar on viola, Ethel Smyth's first operatic success
[…] Radio Symphony Orchestra explored Grażyna Bacewicz's piano concertos.Contemporary music included the stunning sound world of Russian-trained Estonian composer, Galina Grigorjeva's music for male-voice choir, Arne Nordheim's seductive The Tempest, Suite from the Ballet, and Jonathan Dove's intense In Exile. The Engegård Quartet continued their exploration of Olli Mustonen's chamber music with the terrific, atmospheric pairing of String Quartet No. 1 and Piano Quintet.In a slightly unlikely but completely tempting pairing, countertenor Reginald Mobley joined jazz pianist/composer Baptiste Trotignon for a disc of spirituals.Read our 2023 selection below:Style and elegance: with Bach-Abel Society, Les Ombres take us back to the elegant evenings of the Bach-Abel concerts in LondonGalina Grigorjeva: Music for Male-Voice Choir, a simply stunning disc that brings together the rich and complex sound world of the Russian-trained Estonian composer Galina Grigorjeva with the terrific musicality of the Estonian National Male ChoirOnce you hear it, I guarantee you'll be seduced: Arne […]
2023-11-04 09:31:00
Music knows no borders: countertenor Reginald Mobley on the music of Ignatius Sancho, spirituals as Early Music and the importance of diversity
[…] a programme with some music by Ignatius Sancho, as it gives audiences a way to understand the diversity of places like 18th-century London.Born in Florida and brought up singing jazz and gospel, Reginald doesn't just perform 17th and 18th-century classical music. At that Bayreuth concert, he rounded things off with a wonderful performance of a song by Duke Ellington. His debut album, Because, on Alpha Classics [see my review] featured a partnership with jazz pianist/composer Baptiste Trotignon performing spirituals and gospel in a style that deliberately sat between classical and jazz. The fact that the disc isn't strictly classical or jazz was just the point, and it proved both easy and difficult for people to deal with. When Reginald and Baptiste Trotignon did a concert tour to launch the disc, the opening concert was in Paris at Le Bal Blomet, the oldest jazz club in Europe where Josephine Baker had […]
2023-09-23 09:31:00
The juxtaposition of extreme eras of music makes people think about what is fascinating in the music: Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko on his London Piano Festival programme
Vadym Kholodenko at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 2022The Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko gives a recital at the London Piano Festival at Kings Place on Friday 6 October 2023 playing a programme that moves from Handel's Suite in Bb HWV 440 and Haydn's Sonata in C sharp minor, Hob XVI No. 36 to Beethoven's Sonata No. 27, Op. 90 to Silvestrov's Bagatelles Op. 1 and Adès' Traced Overhead, ending with Liszt's Après une lecture de Dante and Tarantella in G minor from Années de pèlerinage II (Italy). And Vadym returns to the UK in December for Bartók's Piano Concerto No.3 with the Ulster Orchestra, conductor Elena Schwarz. Vadym Kholodenko (Photo: Jean-Baptiste Millot)Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Vadym took his first piano lessons at the age of six and began touring internationally at thirteen years old. Educated at the Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, he studied with […]
2023-07-31 04:00:00
Lully & Philidor: Music for Oboe Band (Paul Goodwin, London Oboe Band)
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