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2022-12-09 00:00:00
Variations by Nineteen British Composers & Four Film Scores (Jac van Steen)
Themes & Variations - Variations by Nineteen British Composers01 - 07 Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (1953) [16'21] Theme 'Sellenger's Round' (William Byrd arr. Imogen Holst)Variations by Arthur Oldham, Michael Tippett, Lennox Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, Humphrey Searle and William Walton.08 - 13 Severn Bridge Variations (1966) [18'54]Theme 'Braint' Variations by Malcolm Arnold, Alun Hoddinott, Nicholas Maw, Daniel Jones, Grace Williams and Michael Tippett.14 - 20 Variations on 'Sumer Is Icumen In' (1987) [19'59] Theme (Oliver Knussen)Variations by Robert Saxton, Robin Holloway, Judith Weir, Alexander Goehr, Colin Matthews and Finale by David BedfordBBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jac van SteenNMC CD062 [recorded March 1999; issued 2001][digital download; flacs, cover booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, LondonRecording engineers: Tryggvi Tryggvason and Andrew Hallifax; Producer: Colin MatthewsAnd four British film scores from the same team:Love from a Stranger01 - 06 Benjamin Britten: Love from a Stranger [10'21]07 - 14 Roberto […]
2022-01-19 12:31:39
Armonico Consort celebrates its 20th anniversary with performances of new editions of music by the other Scarlatti, Francesco
Armonico Consort & Baroque Players Hands up all those who are familiar with the music of Francesco Scarlatti. Brother of Alessandro, uncle to Domenico, Francesco has rather disappeared into the Maw of history. Born in 1685 he came to London in 1719, though not much music survives from this period and by 1724 he was in Dublin. Francesco's music helped to launch the Armonico Consort 20 years, with performances at Wigmore Hall and abroad. Now the ensemble is celebrating its 20th birthday by performing two of Francesco's sacred works in new editions by Dr Geoffrey Webber. At Warwick Collegiate Church (29 January 2022) and Malvern Theatre (5 February 2022), Armonico Consort & Baroque Players, director Christopher Monks, will be performing Francesco Scarlatti's Dixit Dominus (from 1702) and Messe a 16 (from 1703) as part of a programme that includes violin concertos by Bach and Vivaldi with violinist Rachel Podger. Before the concerts […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2021-12-19 15:24:28
Mezzo-soprano who brought great dramatic insight to bear in operatic roles by composers ranging from Monteverdi to BrittenThe mezzo-soprano Pamela Helen Stephen, who has died aged 57 of cancer, was a popular and admired figure on stages in Britain and abroad. Following her debut as Cathleen in Nicholas Maw’s The Rising of the Moon at Wexford in 1990, she made a number of appearances with Opera North, Welsh National and Scottish Operas before making her mark in a series of higher-profile roles. Though not an early music specialist, she won considerable acclaim for the powerful way she inhabited the character of
2021-03-24 02:00:00
Nicholas Maw - Violin Concerto and more
Nicholas Maw (1935-2009) Violin Concerto Joshua Bell violin London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Roger Norrington Sony Classical 1999 flac, cue, log, scans Maw’s Violin Concerto was written with Joshua Bell specifically in mind in 1993; the recording followed in September 1996. In the very enthusiastic sleeve-notes – I’m not sure how Maw feels about being described as a “genius” – great play is made of the work in relation to the Brahms Violin Concerto. Certainly it has a complex romantic affiliation but the composers’ names that occurred to me were those of Prokofiev and Walton. Not that Maw could be remotely taken to be either of them – but in its cultivation of an almost Italianate lyricism it does summon up the memory of Walton’s Mediterranean work and in its fusion of melodic beauty and scherzo drama it must pay at least oblique, […]
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