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2022-07-21 05:01:00
New Releases, No. 33 (CD reviews)
[…] about the engineering, then, which is by the redoubtable Adam Abeshouse, a name that seems to pop up fairly often on fine-sounding recordings, of which this is an example. For cello lovers and/or fans of Latin American music, Corazón is an easy recommendation.Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38; 7 Songs (arr. Norbert Salter [1868-1935] & David Geringas [b. 1946]); Cello Sonata No 2. in F Op. 99. Antonio Meneses, cello; Gérard Wyss, piano. AVIE AV2493.Are you in the mood for some more music for cello and piano? If so, let’s take a trip across the Atlantic from Latin America to Germany (or, if you are really in the mood for some fun, travel, and adventure, we could always set sail across the Pacific and then hike across Asia on our way to Europe) for an encounter with the music of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Brahms is sometimes […]
2022-03-09 09:49:35
[…] Benjamin Britten who later became a pupil of Bridge) was heard for the first time followed at the next festival by Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Job: A Masque for Dancing in 1930, a work inspired by William Blake's illustrations for the Book of Job. The same festival also included Arthur Bliss' Morning Heroes while Benjamin Britten's Our Hunting Fathers received its première on 25th September 1936 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra featuring the Swiss-born soprano, Sophie Wyss.An oft-recounted story from this festival tells of Vaughan Williams’ intervention to stop members of the LPO mocking the 22-year-old Britten's work. According to Sophie Wyss, ‘members of the orchestra were not used to Britten’s kind of music and played about disgracefully. When the reference to ‘‘rats’’ came in the score they ran around pretending they were chasing them on the floor.’ In ‘headmaster’ mood, Vaughan Williams - whose widow and second wife, Ursula, attended […]
2021-06-08 00:00:00
Roger Woodward - A Concerto Collection
Roger Woodward - piano. A Concerto Collection. Vol.I1.01. - 1.03. Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto in D minor for Keyboard and Strings, BWV,1052 [22'11]with Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Aadland [2012 live]1.04. - 1.06. Joseph Haydn - Concerto for Violin and Organ in F major, Hob.XVIII:6 * [19'43]Roger Woodward- chamber organ and Wanda Wilkomirska- violin, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Niklaus Wyss [1982 live]2.07. - 2.09. Frederic Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, op.11 [40'31]with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert [1982]3.10. - 3.12. Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op.58 [33'36]with Queensland Theatre Orchestra, George Tintner [1982 live]3.13. - 3.15. Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op.37 [34'42]with West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Albert Rosen [1982 live]4.16. - 4.18. Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, op.26 [28'25]4.19. - 4.21. Alexander Scriabin - Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, […]
2021-02-17 10:00:30
A reflection of a lifetime's performing: Benjamin Britten's complete folk-songs for voice and piano in a new recording from Mark Milhofer and Marco Scolastra
[…] tenor Mark Milhofer and pianist Marco Scolastra perform all of Britten's folk-song arrangements for voice and piano, the published volumes and the unpublished songs [Released 19 February 2021]. The songs are performed in date order, starting with I wonder as I wander which was written in America but never published because of copyright problems, and ending with songs from the late 1950s. Apart from the volume of French folk-songs (written for the Swiss soprano Sophie Wyss), all these songs were written for Peter Pears, but since publication have been taken into the repertoire of countless singers, often filling a function in recital parallel to that in Britten and Pears' recitals, a moment for the singer to sing to the audience in their native language. Few singers nowadays include folk-song arrangements by Grainger or by RVW in their recitals, but Britten's are common. Partly this is because they don't always […]
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