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2023-07-14 00:00:00
Richard Rodney Bennett, Arthur Bliss, George Butterworth & Gustav Holst: The British Music Collections
[…] John Mauceri (08-09 [January 1993 & September 1995])Julian Lloyd-Webber- cello & Richard Rodney Bennett (10 [October 1993])Decca 470371-2 (recorded 1971 to 1995; this compilation first issued 2006)[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Brent Town Hall, Wembley, London (01-04), BBC Hippodrome, Golders Green, London (05-07), Sony Studios, Culver City, USA (08), Hollywood, USA (09), Henry Wood Hall, London (10) Recording engineers: Ko Witteveen (01-04 for Philips), Jonathan Stokes & Michael Mailes (05-07), Joel Moss (08-09), Roger de Schot (10)Producers: Jaap van Ginneken (01-04 for Philips), Chris Hazell (05-07), Michael Gore (08), Mitchell Hanlon (09), Anna Barry (10)Arthur Bliss: The British Music Collection1.01 Introduction and Allegro [12'12]1.02 - 1.04 Cello Concerto * [28'21]1.05 - 1.12 Meditations on a Theme by John Blow [34'27]2.01 Antiphonal Fanfare for Three Brass Choirs [1'36]2.02 Flourish for two brass orchestras:'Greetings to a City' [6'32]2.03 Fanfare for the Lord Mayor Of London [1'48]2.04 - 2.08 […]
2023-02-01 17:15:05
She dreamed a dream
Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin, and Moss Hart’s 1941 musical Lady in the Dark is a psychoanalytical romantic comedy. It simultaneously mocks and takes seriously the power of looking inward to understand oneself, a process which can be silly, frustrating and life-changing in turn.
2022-10-04 13:39:05
In this issue inspirational conductor Marin Alsop talks to Stephen Moss about her groundbreaking career thus far, and also speculates on what may lie just around the corner for her. Alsop also reveals more about the new space-themed symphony she’s recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. Elsewhere, Rebecca Franks looks at how composers have conveyed the strange mystery of the nighttime hours – and leads us through some of music’s most atmospheric nocturnal evocations, from Beethoven to Birtwistle. We’ve also got a report from Daniel Jaffé on how Ukraine is fighting to keep its hard-won musical identity, while Charlotte Smith introduces us to Idaho’s rugged Sun Valley, home to an acclaimed music festival. This month’s BBC Music Magazine Interview, meanwhile, features a poignant conversation with pianist Lars Vogt, who so sadly passed away in September. Shortly before his death, Lars revealed to Jessica Duchen how he was grabbing every chance to […]
2022-04-10 12:30:20
Coliseum, LondonPoul Ruder’s opera is at its most effective in its quietest moments, with the all-female production boasting strong performances from leads Emma Bell and Kate Lindsey Years before Elisabeth Moss first put on Offred’s red kirtle and glowered at the camera from under a white visor, years before the TV series took Margaret Atwood’s book way beyond its ending, there was The Handmaid’s Tale: the opera, by the composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley. It was premiered in Copenhagen in 2000 and staged at English National Opera three years later. Now, slightly revised by its authors – and, after Trump and 6 January, seeming more urgently relevant than ever - it’s back in a new staging, the first opera directed here by Annilese Miskimmon since she became ENO’s artistic director. We are at a symposium listening to a newly discovered cassette tape, an artefact from Gilead, presented by an […]
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