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2023-07-01 09:35:00
Temple ChurchByrd: Pavan and Gaillard; Fantasy in 6 parts; Three Fantasies in 3 parts; Fantasy in four parts; Five-Part Pavan; Browning; Two In Nomines in 5 parts Weelkes: In Nomine in 5 parts Byrd: Prelude and Ground; Fantasy: two parts in one the fourth above Weelkes: Fantasy in six parts Byrd: Fantasy in six parts Temple Music’s William Byrd Festival continued with music for viol consort: mostly Byrd, but with a couple of pieces by Thomas Weelkes. The twin variety and unity of Byrd’s contributions was striking, in some cases gradually permitting the emergence of older themes, whether from folk music or, in the case of the In nomines, a cantus firmus from John Taverner’s Missa gloria tibi trinitas. A programme equally well constructed and well performed, with subtle yet undeniable mastery, offered a restorative lunchtime hour in the heart of legal London. A pair of dances, a Pavan […]
2023-06-02 00:00:00
Barber, Piston & Tower Orchestral Works and Abraham Lincoln Portraits (Leonard Slatkin)
Samuel Barber:01 - 04 Symphony No. 1, op.9 ~ [21'39]05 - 07 Piano Concerto, op.38 ^~ [29'09]08 - 13 Souvenirs for piano four-hands, op.28 ^* [18'24]John Browning- piano^, Leonard Slatkin- piano*; Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin~RCA 9062-60732-2 [recorded October 1990; CD issued 1991][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet sourced from archive.org]Recording venues: Powell Symphony Hall, Saint Louis and Manhattan Center, New York City^*, USARecording engineer: William Hoekstra; Producer: Jay David SaksWalter Piston:01 - 11 The Incredible Flutist [16'42]12 - 14 Three New England Sketches [15'38]15 - 18 Symphony No.6 [24'22]Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard SlatkinRCA 9062-60798-2 [recorded October 1989 and March 1990; CD issued 1991, download 2018][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet sourced from archive.org]Recording venue: Powell Symphony Hall, Saint Louis, USARecording engineer: William Hoekstra; Producer: Joanna NickrenzJoan Tower: Meet the Composer01 Silver Ladders (1986) [22'26]02 Island Prelude for Solo Oboe and […]
2022-05-01 10:48:32
A list of my songs
[…] Rabindranath Tagore for Soprano & Piano Love's Lordship (2015) Four sonnets by Michelangelo Buonarroti, translated by J.A. Symonds Tenor (or Baritone or Soprano) & Piano Voyages (2015) Four songs for baritone and piano to poems by Hart Crane Single Songs To His Coy Mistress (1997), Text: Andrew Marvell, Alto & Piano Kiss Thou, this Rose (2007), Text: Helen Waddell. Soprano & Piano The Sleep (2012), Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Soprano & Piano The Strand (2014), Text: Louis MacNeice,Medium voice & Piano When Summer's end is nighing (2016), Text: A.E. Housman, Baritone & Piano Fancy's Knell (2017), Text: A.E. Housman, Baritone & Piano
2022-02-13 09:18:09
[…] His setting of the prayer Salve sis had a vivid and strenuous orchestral introduction leading to a spectacular bravura vocal part whose perkiness belied the prayerful text. Francesco Antonio de Almeida (fl1722-52) was Portuguese though his oratorio Giuditta was staged in Rome in 1726. We heard an aria from it, gentle and plangent but with the voice describing elegant curlicues over slower moving accompaniment. Mesmerising. Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785), perhaps as well known for his occurrence in the Browning poem as for his music, was a pupil of Lotti. His instrumental Concerto a 4 was an early work, yet it moved from the affecting to the engaging and there was a sense of real personality in the playing. The first half ended with an aria by Gaetano Maria Schiassi from Bologna where his oratorio Maria Vergine al Calvario was staged in 1735, but by then Schiassi had left to serve in the Royal Chapel in Lisbon. […]
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