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- composer, music theorist, university teacher, accordionist
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2024-03-25 09:57:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: Blond Eckbert and Curlew River, plus Unsuk Chin, Judith Weir, Alban Gerhardt and Daniel Pioro as featured artists
[…] by Britten and Rostropovich which saw the world premiere of Britten’s Cello Sonata, along with classic works by Schubert, Schumann and Debussy. Gerhardt will be pairing Bach and Britten with their solo cello suites.Violinist Daniel Pioro joins pianist Simon Smith for Brahms' three Violin Sonatas, and he joins with the Marian Consort for a programme of music for dusk including Tom Coult, Arvo Pärt and John Tavener. Pioro will also bring a deep-listening element, inspired by Pauline Oliveros, to a festival walk, and the violinist is also inviting people to drop in to his practice session at the Red House. And Pioro is the soloist in Britten Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth.There will be a new staging of Britten’s church parable Curlew River, 60 years after its first performance, directed by Claire van Kampen with music director Audrey Hyland and tenor Ian Bostridge, baritone Peter Braithwaite, bass-baritone […]
2023-08-03 03:30:00
[…] to catch fire. The music is lovely enough, especially in some of some of its slower passages (e.g., the second movement Adagio of Sonata II), but some of the allegro movements come across as slightly undercaffeinated. The recording quality is excellent, as we have come to expect from ECM. The Future is Female: Vol. 3 At Play. Hélène de Montgeroult: Sonata No.9 in F sharp minor; Cécile Chaminade: Thème varié, Op. 98; Grazyna Bacewicz: Scherzo; Chen Yi: Guessing; Franghiz Ali-Zadeh: Music for Piano; Pauline Oliveros: Quintuplets Play Pen: Homage to Ruth Crawford; Hannah Kendall: On the Chequer'd Field Array'd; Aida Shirazi: Albumblatt; Regina Harris Baiocchi: Piano Poems. Sarah Cahill, piano. First Hand Records FHR133 Volume 3 of The Future Is Female marks the completion of this recording project undertaken by the American pianist Sarah Cahill (b. 1960). As we noted in our review of Volume 2, which can be seen here, this is not just another piano recital recording, for Sarah Cahill is not just another pianist. Among other […]
2022-05-24 07:56:24
Rewarding collaboration, Daniel Pioro and Erland Cooper perform live together for the first time at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival
[…] All of them were scored for ensemble apart from ‘Marwick Head’ witnessing Pioro and Cooper immersed in some richly intense playing which painted in my wandering mind an abstract canvas of the bleakness, isolation and spirituality that, I feel, is ingrained in the windswept landscape of the barren (but beautiful) Scottish isles. Basically, the whole concept of the evening came from Pioro who put Cooper’s extremely pleasant music into the context of a Pauline Oliveros-inspired, deep-listening experience, exploring abstract sound such as white noise and endless drones moving in and out of tonality. Pauline Oliveros, by the way, was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She died in 2016. All the score was, in fact, new but adapted from Cooper’s work with Pioro linking his music by sonic landscapes and improvisations. He also incorporated folk-music elements, too, […]
2021-09-17 07:33:06
Pauline Oliveros: A Love Song Context Born in May 1932 in Texas, Pauline Oliveros began participating in music at a very young age. In the 1940s, she received her mother’s accordion, as they were a fairly popular instrument in America at the time. Whilst at school she also learned to […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
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