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Sophisticated timbres & detailed textures: UK premiere of Helen Grime's String Quartet No. 2 & Ravel's String Quartet from Heath Quartet at Wigmore Hall
[…] the piece. This is music that repays repeated listening; if every a piece was meant to be listened to on repeat on your music system at home, then it was this one. The good news is that you can, NMC Recordings issued the Heath Quartet's recording of Grime's String Quartet No. 2 as part of Bracing Change 2, a compilation of new work for string quartet which also includes music by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Paul Newland. Further details from the NMC website.There is curious tradition in French music of composers only writing a single string quartet. Franck, Chausson and Debussy all wrote a single example. Ravel wrote his quartet in 1904 and the influence of Debussy's quartet can be felt (too much so, according to some of Ravel's contemporaries). Ravel's teacher, Faure, would only write his quartet 20 years later in 1924.Ravel's sophisticated control of timbre and texture perhaps encouraged […]
2021-04-18 23:16:00
Cynthia Cozette Lee: Black Classical Firsts Honored in April: Day 16 – Sylvia Olden Lee, Acclaimed Vocal Coach, Pianist and Music Educator
[…] Olden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach” by Sylvia Olden Lee and Elizabeth Nash. Reference: “Dialogue With Sylvia Olden Lee”, Curtis Institute Schiller Institute, (7 Feb. 1998) Retrieved on April 12, 2021 from https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_97-01/fid_981_lee_interview.html Reference: Dr. Eve Lee, (personal communications, April 4, 2021, April 5, 2021 and April 15, 2021). Reference: Lee, Sylvia Olden and Nash, Elizabeth, “The Memoirs of Sylvia Oden Lee, Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach, E. Mellon Press, New York: 2001. Reference: Newland, Marti, “Lee, Sylvia Olden” Grove Music Online, Retrieved April 12, 2021 from https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002242092 Reference: Ottley, Nevilla E., “Black Pianists of Classical Music Born Between 1838 and 1933,” 2nd ed., Classics of Ebony Publishing: 2019, pp. 100 – 112. Reference: “Sylvia Olden Lee Biography” Wikipedia Retrieved April 12, 2021 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Olden_Lee Reference: Sylvia Olden Lee, (personal communications, 1982). Photograph 1- Sylvia Olden Lee Portrait retrieved on April 14, 2021 from Lee, Sylvia Olden and Nash, […]
2018-09-13 23:00:00
Forgotten Vienna (The Amadè Players)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799)Concerto for Two Violins in C majorKarl von Ordonez (1734-1786)Sinfonia in C major Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813)Symphony in A minorViolin Concerto in B flat majorRequiem Mass in E flat majorNicholas Newland, The Amadè Players(Period Instruments)Resonus Classics RES01057 (2015)[Flac & Scans]
2018-04-27 23:25:00
Baritone Sidney Outlaw & Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra in "Hiawatha's Vision" (YouTube 7:08)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor & Harry Burleigh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6lU4pi3yg0&feature=youtu.be (7:08) Baritone Sidney Outlaw and the Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra perform "Hiawatha's Vision," an aria that H.T. Burleigh sang from S. Coleridge Taylor's "Hiawatha Trilogy." The Harry T. Burleigh Society writes: Dear Subscribers to the Harry T. Burleigh Society, It is our honor to share recordings from our March 2018 concert, "Lineage and Heritage: On the Souls of Black Folk," which was an extraordinary collaboration with the Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra. Maestro Thomas Cunningham led a program featuring works by Burleigh and his friend S. Coleridge Taylor, foregrounding their generative friendship as black men producing art music at the turn of the twentieth century. Along with the orchestra, soprano Marti Newland, mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford, tenor Chauncey Packer, baritone Sidney Outlaw, baritone Eddie Pleasant, pianist Roy Jennings, and […]
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