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2024-02-15 04:30:00
Copland Conducts Copland: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (CD Review)
by Karl Nehring This 20-CD box set from Sony Classics (20 CD 19439977462) includes Aaron Copland’s complete own recordings for Columbia Masterworks from 1935 to 1976 plus his first recording of The Tender Land Suite and the first recording by the composer of Appalachian Spring for RCA Red Seal on 19 CDs. The set also includes recordings an additional CD featuring two of his works conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Although Sony Classical had issued many of Copland’s CBS/Columbia recordings on CD before, including a major 5-disc set in 2013, this new collection marks the first all-inclusive compilation of his authoritative interpretations along with the composer’s six early recordings for the first time on Sony Classical CD. The 20 discs are enclosed in sleeves that are replicas of the original LP covers – a nice touch (although the tiny font on the rear of those sleeves is one of the very few negatives of the transition from […]
2023-12-18 05:30:00
KN's Favorite Recordings of 2023
[…] writes. “This album reflects upon our collaboration over the years. It is the first album that I have recorded since Veljo Tormis passed away.” This album is a labor of love, a lovingly performed and beautifully recorded labor of love.Whitacre: Home. Voces8; Emma Denton, cello; Christopher Glenn, piano; Eric Whitacre, conductor. Decca 483 3970. The album begins with four brief pieces, beginning with Go, Lovely Rose, Whitacre’s first composition, followed by one of his most frequently performed pieces, The Seal Lullaby. The next song, Sing Gently, was composed during COVID-19 lockdown specially for Whitacre’s Virtual Choir, made up of more than 17,500 singers from 124 different countries. The fourth work on the album is Whitacre’s most recent composition, All Seems Beautiful to Me, based on a poem by Walt Whitman (from Song of the Open Road) celebrating the human spirit’s capacity for generosity and growth. It was commissioned by the United States Air Force Band and here receives […]
2023-10-11 08:35:00
English song and a pizza! Kitty Whately and William Vann at Pizza Express Live at The Pheasantry in Chelsea
[…] small group of later compositions. It is a remarkable work, rather stark with a chromatic vocal line that almost evokes a slow blues. Down by the Salley Gardens setting W.B. Yeats poem, dates originally from 1919 but was revised by Clarke in the 1950s. An intriguingly lovely song, folk-ish in its inspiration yet all Clarke's own. The final in this group of Clarke songs is her finest and best known. Setting another large, complex John Masefield poem, The Seal Man dates from 1922 and here Whately and Vann really drew us into the narrative, with the dead-pan ending ('she went down into the sea with her man, who wasn't a man at all. She drowned, of course.') mesmerising.We returned to Shakespeare with three settings by another RVW pupil, Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994). Come Away, Death (from Twelfth Night) and King Stephen (from Othello) both date from 1965 and show the distance Maconchy's compositional voice travelled from that of her teacher, RVW. Come […]
2022-10-02 04:19:11
Tenor Matthew Cairns’s star has been rising for a few years now, but his promise was given the ultimate Seal of approval when he became one of the winners of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition this past spring. When asked to share the secret of his success, Cairns said: “I think [...]
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