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Canadian singer and opera singer
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2022-10-07 04:00:00
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches & Orchestral Works (Charles Groves, David Atherton & Roy Goodman)
Grace Williams (1906 - 1977):01 Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes * (1940) [11'03]02 - 05 Carillons for Oboe & Orchestra * (1965 rev. 1975) [10'31]06 - 09 Penillion ~ (1955) [15'49]10 - 12 Trumpet Concerto * (1963) [13'27]13 - 17 Sea Sketches (1944) ^ [18'55]Anthony Camden- oboe, Howard Snell- trumpet; London Symphony Orchestra * and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ~ conducted by Charles Groves; English Chamber Orchestra ^ conducted by David AthertonLyrita SRCD323 [recorded May 1971~ and November 1973* for EMI; January 1970^ for Decca; this compilation issued 1995][CD-rip; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans]Recording venues: Abbey Road Studios, London, Afan Lido, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales and Kingsway Hall, LondonRecording engineers: Robert Gooch, Stuart Eltham and James Lock; Producers: John Willan, Brian Culverhouse and James MallinsonFor anybody who caught the British music concert conducted by Andrew Manze at this year's Proms, here is one of the very few recordings of the Welsh […]
2022-02-18 00:00:00
[…] Unfortunately this is only an mp3 rip (not my rip - many thanks to the original poster) but the sound quality is very decent.Gourlay plays Tuba:01. - 03. Edward Gregson - Tuba Concerto * [19'00]04. Malcolm Arnold - Fantasy [4'00]05. Rodney Newton - Capriccio * [9'00]06. Edward Gregson - Alarum [8'04]07. - 09. Joseph Horovitz - Tuba Concerto * [19'45]10. Krzysztof Penderecki - Capriccio [4'25]James Gourlay- tuba; Britannia Building Society Brass Band conducted by Howard Snell*Doyen DOYCD028 [recorded 1994][CD-rip; 320kbps mp3, cover scan - no booklet]Recording venue: BBC Studio 7 & Zion Institute, ManchesterRecording engineer: Harold Barnes; Producers: Nicholas & Alison Childs Britannia Building Society Brass Band, the artists formerly known as Foden Motor Works Band.Download from Mega.
2020-05-31 09:18:00
Dancing du Pré
[…] that a musical instrument is not just an inanimate object. You do not put them in the plane's hold, and this is why. It literally risks breaking your dancing partner into pieces. I hope that in the empty-skied lockdown, many off-duty airline staff will see and enjoy this fabulous creation and understand, some for the first time, exactly what they are doing.Last but by no means least, there is glorious cello playing throughout from Hetty Snell.You can watch the whole thing here. Please donate to the company, which is losing 60% of its income while forcibly closed, with no reopening date currently knowable.
2019-08-06 11:43:38
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - Mozart's The Magic Flute broadcast from Glyndebourne
[…] is scarcely news to any regular opera goer, but the fact that Barbe & Doucet had previously eschewed invitations to stage it, as a result, seemed a tad odd. Would the audience have imputed that they too were racist and sexist for having dared tackle the work? And they chose to carve a career in Opera? What on earth were they expecting from an eighteenth-century Singspiel, Mary Wollstonecraft? Mozart: The Magic Flute - Martin Snell, David Portillo, Björn Bürger, Thomas AtkinsGlyndebourne (Photo Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. / Bill Cooper) Fortunately, the familiar tingle I feel hearing those familiar chords was enough to return my eyebrows to their recumbent position. Barbe & Doucet’s take on the opera was set in an hotel. André Barbe‘s pen and ink set designs were painstaking and handsomely reproduced, the vivid costumes against the monochrome gave it a magical picture book appeal. It was […]
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