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English composer (c. 1535 – 1572)
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-28 23:24:03
[…] a purely instrumental movement, and that debate endures. David Levy (Wake Forest University) surveyed the Ninth as an iconic political force that endures to this day, whose historical roots can be found in Schiller’s “An die Freude” text of 1785. Elaine Sisman (Columbia), focusing on the second movement, explored the spectrum of humor (scherzo, scherzoso, even scherzando in other Beethoven works) to wonder about how much that abiding sonata form is really a joke. James Parsons (Missouri State University) demonstrated how the Choral Fantasy, op. 80, adumbrates the Ninth’s finale, with a close comparison of the different texts. Christopher Reynolds (University of California, Davis) illustrated with convincing examples how the Ninth anticipated certain melodic and harmonic gestures in Wagner’s Ring, which, we remember, debuted 148 years ago at the Wagner Festspielhaus in Bavaria, where only Beethoven’s symphonies, are regularly performed alongside Wagner’s work. Lewis Lockwood, senior counsel to all who […]
2024-01-07 05:00:56
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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
[…] - 10 Duos for Two Violins (1956) [19'22]11 - 12 Canzonettas for Violin and Viola (1942-1958) [4'17]13 - 15 String Trio (1945) [15'54]Martin Riseley- violin with the Chamber Players of the New Zealand School of Music (Jun He and Lyndon Taylor- violins, Donald Maurice- viola, Inbal Megiddo- cello, Jian Liu- piano)Atoll ACD142 [recorded June 2011; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: somewhere in Wellington, New ZealandRecording engineers: Nigel Scott and Michael Parsons; Producer: Wayne LairdEdmund Rubbra: Chamber Music:01 Piano Trio in one movement, op.68 [19'31]02 Meditazioni Sopra 'Cœurs Désolés' for oboe and piano, op.67 [5'21]03 Phantasy for two violins and piano, op.16 [11'27]04 - 06 Sonata in C for oboe and piano, op.100 [12'30]07 - 11 (arr. A Cruft): Suite 'The Buddha', op.64 [9'05]12 - 13 Piano Trio No. 2, op.138 [13'15]14 Duo for cor anglais and piano, op.156 [5'41]Endymion Ensemble (Krysia Osostowicz- violin, Catherine Manson- […]
2023-08-23 08:12:00
The Central Band of the Royal Air Force to premiere new work by Thomas Hewitt Jones at concerts in aid of the Royal Air Force Music Services Association
The Central Band of the Royal Air Force will be premiering a new work from symphonic wind band by Thomas Hewitt Jones, Wings of Freedom, at concerts in London (29 September 2023) and Cambridge (1 October 2023). Conducted by Squadron Leader Chris I'Anson and Flight Lieutenant Michael Parsons, the band will be performing in two venues new to them, Holy Trinity Sloane Square and West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge. The concerts will raise funds for the Royal Air Force Music Services Association, with whom the Central Band of the RAF has close links, and which provides support to RAF Music Services.Thomas Hewitt Jones' Wings of Freedom is a four-movement work that is inspired by the core values of the Royal Air Force with movements entitled 'Respect', 'Integrity', 'Service', and 'Excellence'. Alongside the new commission from Thomas Hewitt Jones, the London concert opens with In Our Service, composed by Hewitt Jones in […]
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