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2024-02-22 12:00:00
Mike Wheeler is impressed by French/German pianist Elena Fischer-Dieskau's performances of Mélanie Bonis, Robert Schumann and Rachmaninov
2024-01-31 10:23:49
[…] by today’s borders).For our new album, Le Temps retrouvé, we decided to turn the spotlight on some of the undeservedly neglected French gems. There’s the sensuous, dreamy sonata of Reynaldo Hahn, and Fauré’s rarely played second sonata, a powerful piece haunted by shadows of the first world war. But our most immediate and indisputable choice for inclusion on the album, after hearing only the soaring, searching opening bars, was the sole violin sonata by Mel Bonis.
2024-01-08 08:22:00
Classical Vauxhall: Fiachra Garvey's festival is back with everything from Fairytales and Fantasy to Classical Soul.
Fiachra Garvey, co-founder and artistic director of Classical Vauxhall (Photo: Frances Marshall)Classical Vauxhall is returning for the fifth year with a weekend of events in and around Vauxhall from 29 February to 3 March 2024. Artistic director, pianist Fiachra Garvey kicks things off with a recital entitled Fairytale and Fantasy with music by Ravel, Stravinsky, Debussy and Frank Bridge along with the Gaelic Fantasy by Irish composer Rhoda Coghill (1903-2000).Violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster gave a recital at Classical Vauxhall's 2021 online festival, and for 2024 they are returning in person for a programme which moves from sonatas by Mendelssohn and French composer Mel Bonis (1858-1937) to their #UriPosteJuxebox will feature a smorgasbord of greatest hits from their hugely successful online YouTube channel, which was their brainchild during the days of Covid lockdowns. Expect everything from Bach to Elton John.Saturday evening its the turn of singer/songwriter China Moses who will be joined by group […]
2023-10-26 14:00:37
[…] the 15 works included are concert staples – Franck’s Le Chasseur Maudit, Paul Dukas’ L’Apprenti Sorcier, Emmanuel Chabrier’s España, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre – but many of the other composers represented here are forgotten now.Stylistically they are a highly varied bunch: there are still traces of Berlioz in Ernest Guiraud’s Ouverture d’Arteveld from 1874, for instance, while Boulanger’s D’un Matin de Printemps of 1918 brings together Debussy and early Stravinsky. There’s Debussy too in Mel Bonis’s rapturous Le Rêve de Cléopatre, but it’s Wagner who casts a shadow over Vincent d’Indy’s Istar, Henri Duparc’s beautiful Aux Étoiles, Augusta Holmès’s La Nuit et l’Amour and Ernest Chausson’s Arthurian Viviane. Meanwhile, Alfred Bruneau’s La Belle au Bois Dormant owes a clear debt to his teacher, Massenet.
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