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2023-05-22 17:18:00
Queen Elizabeth HallVivaldi: The Four Seasons, op.8 Grisey: Vortex temporumMichael Morpurgo (narrator)Clio Gould, Oliver Wilson (violins)Oliver Wilson (viola)Clare O’Connell (cello)Jonas Nordberg (archlute)David Gordon (harpsichord)Katherine Tinker (chamber organ)Karen Jones (flutes)Mark van de Wiel (clarinets)Paul Silverthorne (viola)Tim Gill (cello)Daniel Piero (violin, director)Andrew Zolinsky (piano)Geoffrey Paterson (conductor) All music unfolds in time. Here, two musical works, separated by the greater part of three centuries, in turn explored time’s unfolding. It has become such a cliché to moan about the ubiquity of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons that perhaps now it is time, as it were, to welcome it back to the fold. (In any case, apart from telephonic descents into hell punctuated by reminders of the value of our call and eagerness of Corporation X to answer us, we can readily avoid it. I have for years.) It is certainly time to do so if treated to so engaging a performance as this from Daniel […]
2022-05-20 15:59:00
Hall Two, Kings Place Varèse: Density 21.5 Boulez: Dérive 1 Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life 3 Berio: O King Tansy Davies: grind show (unplugged)Simone Ibbett-Brown (mezzo-soprano)Michael Cox (flute)Paul Silverthorne (viola)London SinfoniettaGerry Cornelius (conductor) The London Sinfonietta’s Couch to Concert programme is intended for ‘newcomers … an exercise programme for the ears that will help you work towards attending a concert of contemporary classical music, and arm yourself with the tools to listen to (and even enjoy!) this genre’. I confess that I have yet to listen to the podcasts, but what an excellent idea. There certainly seemed to be a reasonable turnout in Hall Two of Kings Place; let us hope that some at least of the audience was there for the first time as a result. Varèse’s Density 21.5, here performed by Michael Cox, has humanity’s oldest instrument become its newest. Cox offered detail without […]
2020-12-25 00:30:00
Vernon Handley – The Best Of British Light Music
The Best Of British Light Music01. Ron Goodwin: 633 Squadron [2'39]02. Vivian Ellis: Coronation Scot [2'46]03. Robert Farnon: Westminster Waltz [2'51]04. Eric Coates: London Suite - Knightsbridge. March [4'14]05. Eric Coates: London Suite - Covent Garden. Tarantelle [4'53]06. Charles Ancliffe: Nights Of Gladness [4'50]07. Trad. (arr. Peter Hope): Mexican Hat Dance [4'22]08. Ronald Binge: Sailing By [2'43]09. Haydn Wood: London Landmarks Suite - The Horse Guards, Whitehall [3'39]10. Ronald Binge: Elizabethan Serenade [2'51]11. Trevor Duncan: Little Suite - March [3'06]12. Arthur Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba [2'16]13. Ernest Tomlinson: Silverthorne Suite - Concert Jig [3'41]14. Eric Coates: By The Sleepy Lagoon [3'51]15. Edward White: Puffin' Billy [3'44]16. Anthony Collins: Vanity Fair [3'53]17. Robert Farnon: Jumping Bean [2'23]18. Ernest Bucalossi: The Grasshoppers' Dance [2'57]19. Arthur Wood: Barwick Green (My Native Heath) [3'11]20. Eric Coates: The Dam Busters March [3'34]BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley Sony Essential Masterworks 88697707372 [recorded April 1997; first CD […]
2018-02-12 08:41:05
Contemporary music for viola and piano
Rosalind Ventris In addition to its regular chamber music series at Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Music Society runs a contemporary music series. The second of these this season, on Sunday 11 February 2018, featured viola player Rosalind Ventris and pianist James Willshire in Prince Michael Hall, Dean Close School, Cheltenham. We were there to heaar Ventris and Willshire premiere my Three Pieces from the Book of Common Prayer, but the whole programme was an imaginative selection of contemporary music for viola and piano, sometimes together and sometimes separate, showing the remarkable variety of chamber music being written today, with music by Robert Saxton, Arvo Pärt, Edwin Roxburgh, Rory Boyle, Huw Watkins, Howard Blake, Toru Takemitsu, Thomas Ades, Paul Patterson and myself.We started with Robert Saxton's Invocation, Dance and Meditation which was written for Paul Silverthorne and John Constable and premiered at the 1991 Lichfield Festival, and then continued with Arvo […]
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