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British composer and pianist
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2023-12-22 00:00:00
Vaughan Williams Christmas Music, Christmas Baroque, Orchestral Christmas & On Chritmas Night (Richard Hickox, Marc Taddei, Charles Gerhardt & Andrew Nethsingha)
[…] Jesus Christ the apple tree08 Trad.: I saw three ships09 Richard Rodney Bennett: Out of your sleep10 Peter Warlock: Benedicamus Domino11 John Joubert: There is no rose12 Trad.: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day13 Matthew Martin: Adam lay ybounden14 Matheo Flecha the Elder: Riu, riu, chiu15 Trad.: O little town of Bethlehem16 Trad.: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen17 Christopher Robinson: Make we joy18 Felix Mendelssohn: Hark! the herald angels sing19 John Tavener: The Lamb20 Michael Finnissy: Telling21 Kenneth Leighton: Coventry Carol22 Trad.: On Christmas night23 Franz Gruber: Silent night24 John Francis Wade: O come, all ye faithfulTotal time: 74'22John Challenger- organ, Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge directed by Andrew NethsinghaChandos CHSA5096 [recorded January 2011; CD/SACD issued 2011][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St John’s College Chapel, CambridgeRecording engineer: Jonathan Cooper; Producer Rachel SmithDownload from Mega.
2022-12-21 05:00:00
Michael Finnissy’s Polskie tańce ludowe (Polish folk dances) have had multiple lives. Their origins are in a volume of Polish folk music given to Finnissy as a child by his godfather, Peter Klos. Finnissy recently recalled to me that … he served with the Polish Airforce, he was not a… The post appeared first on 5:4. 5:4 is on Patreon! Please consider supporting the blog by becoming a Patron from just $2 a month: https://www.patreon.com/5against4
2022-05-20 10:45:28
Magical places: Sam Cave's Refracted Resonance explores contemporary music for classical guitar
[…] you are actually dealing with six or seven births and six or seven deaths….the excitement is also in the space between the notes and therein lies the poetry of plucked sound…". And it is this concept, these concepts that are embodied in much of the music here. Sam Cave is an English guitarist and composer; he studied at the Royal College of Music and his studies have extended to studies with Michael Zev-Gordon, Michael Finnissy and Craig Ogden. Sam is currently a tutor in guitar at Brunel University London, he has been a guest lecturer in composition for guitar at Coventry University and a lecturer in composition and orchestration at Kingston University. Sam plays on a 'super-concert guitar' by Dutch luthier Jeroen Hilhorst. Cave begins with Tristan Murail's Tellur, a work that the composer describes as beginning "as a kind of wager: how can one produce the long sound continua […]
2021-10-12 07:38:10
To enter this music is to enter a different world, one that you wonder why you never discovered it earlier: Martin Jones plays Elisabeth Lutyens' piano music on Resonus Classics
[…] poet John Keats. And the music, for all its complexity and toughness, has a wonderful sense of poetry and clarity. The harmonic density of the serialism is belied by the spareness of the writing and the sheer feel for poetic gesture that Lutyens seems to have. The seven preludes are finely contrasted, none particularly long and each one poetically evocative. The Great Seas dates from just a year after, it was premiered by the composer Michael Finnissy at the British Music Information Centre in 1979. Again there is a freedom here, and a spareness of texture. The results are highly atmospheric and again we seem to be conjuring up a highly poetic scene. As we listen to this music, it is worthwhile remembering that as well as writing quite dense concert music, Lutyens ran a second (far more lucrative career) writing music for films, notably British horror films from studios such […]
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