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Recent Releases No. 70 (CD Reviews)
[…] notes go into great detail about the difficulty of making a “definitive cycle” of Haydn’s works for piano owing to questions of authenticity. He also offers some remarks concerning how to approach performing these works today. I was surprised to discover in the liner note credits that for this release Pienaar had done his own recording and editing. Above the list of credits here is a photo of his piano with the following caption: “The Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The recording took place in a series of overnight sessions in late 2020, with no engineer or producer present. A single pair of suspended omni-directional microphones was used.” Pienaar is on the faculty at the Royal Academy of Music, which gave him easy access to this recording venue and the associated equipment; still, it is unusual for an artist to record without the assistance of […]
2024-01-28 03:16:51
Returning to source material from our review of the movie A Clockwork Orange (1971) as reviewed by M
2023-12-23 12:00:24
Classical home listening: Sean Shibe; French music for two pianos – and Anthony Burgess’s guitar quartets
The star Scottish guitarist turns to South America; Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva play Poulenc and more; and the Mēla Guitar Quartet premiere works by the author of A Clockwork Orange• Capable of playing any type of guitar, on the evidence so far, in any style he chooses,
2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
[…] a fine rendering of John Rutter’s triumphant setting of Psalm 150 (O praise God in his holiness), a work bursting with wholesome joy and energy accompanied by Onyx Brass while it ended with an equally fine performance of the composer’s Gloria, scored for choir, brass, percussion and organ. A thoroughly uplifting and pleasurable piece - an excellent choice in which to close a marvellous, entertaining and fulfilling concert - featured percussionists Craig Apps and Joby Burgess as well as five girl choristers from Norwich Cathedral Choir: Eden Calver, Jemima Curtis, Antonia Williamson, Rosemary Zhang and Alice Platten, the daughter of the Revd Canon Aidan Platten, Canon Precentor at Norwich Cathedral since 2015 and grand-daughter of Stephen Platten, Dean at Norwich from 1995 to 2003, later becoming bishop of Wakefield. However, the penultimate item in this well-planned programme, Eugène Gigout’s Grand Chœur Dialogué, written in 1881, proved a grandiose and flamboyant […]
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