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Australian bass-baritone (1882-1961)
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Florence Price: Symphony 4 - William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (streaming review)
by Bill Heck Florence Price: Symphony 4; William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra. DG CC 72970 A few weeks ago, I was first exposed to the music of William Dawson (1899 - 1990) in the form of a concert featuring the Negro Folk Symphony. What an introduction that was! This is the kind of work that, as the saying goes, brings down the house, and it certainly did that evening. Naturally I went looking for a recording of the piece only to find that it was part of a recent DG release, and thus an obvious choice for a review here. Nice coincidence, eh? This release is the final one of a series of recordings produced by DG featuring orchestral music of Florence Price played by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Indeed, one of the CDs in this series (Symphonies 1 & 3) was already reviewed […]
2023-11-10 00:00:00
Farquhar, Farr, Finzi, Imogen Holst, Lilburn, McCabe, Psathas, Rubbra & The King's Alchemist: British and New Zealand Chamber Music
[…] Victoria University, Wellington, New ZealandRecording engineer: Steve Garden; Producer: Wayn LairdJohn McCabe (1939 -2015) - Silver Nocturnes:01 The Woman by the Sea for piano and string quartet (2001) * [18'06]02 - 07 Silver Nocturnes for baritone and string quartet 'String Quartet No.6' (2011) ^ [20'22]08 - 10 Horn Quintet (2010-11) # [23'07]11 Desert III. Landscape for piano trio (1982) ~ [23'46]John McCabe- piano*, Roderick Williams- baritone^, David Pyatt- horn#, Sacconi Quartet (Ben Hancox and Hannah Dawson violins, Robin Ashwell- viola and Cara Berridge- cello)*^#; The Australian Piano Trio (Andrew Lorenz- violin, Janis Laurs- cello and Wendy Lorenz- piano) ~.NMC CD239 [recorded 1985 and remastered from LP ~, November 2009 *, April 2016# and March 2017 ^; CD issued 2017[digital download; flacs, cover, back and booklet scans]Recording venues: All Saints Church, East Finchley, London # ~, Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, UK *^; University Hall, University of New England, Armidale, […]
2023-10-18 06:59:00
Tips for musicians setting up a music festival: Shiry Rashkovsky, founder of Up Close and Musical, reflects on festival creation
Shiry Rashkovsky & violinist Fenella Humphreys at Up Close and Musical in 2022Viola-player Shiry Rashkovsky's Up Close and Musical festival returned to the Fidelio Café this month, opening with mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer, pianist Ben Dawson and Trio Klein in a storm-themed programme of music by living, and mainly women, composers [see my review] and ends tonight, 18 October 2023, with soprano & composer Héloïse Werner, multi-instrumentalist Shri Sriram and cellist Max Baillie in Best of October House Records with music by Love Ssega, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Jonathan Cole, and Max Baillie [further details]. Shiry founded Up Close and Musical in 2020 to help demystify the world of classical music, combining intimate performances, artist-curated programmes, and artist interviews, along with food and drink [read my 2021 interview with Shiry].In this article, Shiry reflects on the whole process of festival creation.I founded Up Close and Musical at Fidelio Café because I wanted to give audiences a chance not only to […]
2023-10-05 14:18:00
Up Close & Stormy: Lucy Schaufer launches Up Close & Musical 2023 at the Fidelio Cafe
Deborah Pritchard, Jocelyn Pook, Adrian Sutton, Georgia Stitt, Amanda McBroom, Stephen Barber; Lucy Schaufer, Trio Klein, Ben Dawson; Up Close and Musical at Fidelio CafeReviewed 4 October 2023Five works for voice and instruments, and one string trio, all contemporary and all completely fascinating in this terrific programme to launch this year's Up Close and MusicalShiry Rashkovsky's festival, Up Close and Musical has returned to the Fidelio Cafe for another season of exploring music and musicians. The opening concert featured Lucy Schaufer (described on her website as performer, producer and purveyor of fine jam), pianist Ben Dawson and Trio Klein (Kamila Bydlowska - violin, Shiry Rashkovsky - viola, Ella Rundle - cello) in music inspired by storms (meteorological and emotional) by Deborah Pritchard, Jocelyn Pook, Adrian Sutton, Georgia Stitt, Amanda McBroom and Stephen Barber. It was a complex evening, six works, each of which had a slightly different in the line-up, and in the middle a Q&A with the […]
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