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2024-03-19 09:58:00
[…] a small but important body of work for it, mostly written for father and son horn players, Aubrey and Dennis Brain. Dennis Brain would give the premiere of the Concerto for Horn, Strings and Timpani, Opus 150, but Aubrey Brain premiered the Sonata in E Flat for Horn and Piano, Op. 101. It is an unashamedly romantic piece, echoing late Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss, not to mention seeming to inhabit a similar world to Arnold Bax.The opening movement plunged us straight in to this world of impulsive romanticism, and this was unashamedly modern in outlook in its highly chromatic horn writing. There were were darker moments, and some of the lush piano writing of John Ireland. The slow movement opened with dramatic piano gestures and horn calls, striking indeed and Bowen brings the material back to punctuate the movements highly developed romanticism and lush harmonies. It was here that the […]
2024-02-18 12:27:00
Wake up and listen to the music
[…] André Jolivet and followed his teacher's dictum that music should be “a means to express ideas and not an aim in itself”. Despite being an agnostic the Mahayana Buddhism of his native Vietnam is, along with Hinduism, one of the influences on Thất Tiết's music. Edmund Rubbra had a life-long interest in comparative religion and metaphysics, and following a flirtation with Theosophy briefly practiced Buddhism before returning to Catholicism. In 1947 Arnold Bax's brother Clifford wrote the BBC radio play The Buddha; Rubbra provided the incidental music which became his Suite, The Buddha op.64 for chamber ensemble. Although this is the most overtly Buddhist of Rubbra's compositions, his whole opus is imbued with Buddha nature - the unceasing search for enlightenment. In his invaluable biography of Rubbra Leo Black opines that the composer's final symphony - the compact and enigmatic Eleventh - reflects this unceasing search by […]
2024-01-31 01:07:36
The profound sounds of a piano concerto can do more than stir the emotions of an audience; they can also stimulate the brain in ways that could potentially enhance cognitive functions. As Pacific Symphony prepares to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring the Italian virtuoso Alessio Bax as soloist and guest conductor Andrew Litton (Feb. 22-24), it’s worth exploring the intersection where music meets mind...
2024-01-06 09:54:00
At Kings Place this month, Turkish pianist Can Çakmur celebrates the Hamamatsu Competition which he won in 2018, not to mention embarking on his 12-disc Schubert with BIS
[…] runs from 8 to 25 November), Can Çakmur will be joined by Noriko Ogawa (the Competition's Chair of the Jury) for a showcase concert at Kings Place on 19 January 2024.The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition was inaugurated in 1991 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of Hamamatsu City in Japan and competitions are held every three years and are open to pianists up to the age of 30. Past winners have included Alessio Bax (1997). Can Çakmur won the 2018 competition and the 2021 competition was not held, because of COVID.Can ÇakmurThe showcase concert at Kings Place, to an extent, finishes the post-competition concert tour that Can was undertaking when COVID hit. He finished around 30 concerts in Japan, but the European leg of the tour had to be cancelled. The idea behind the Kings Place concert was to join forces with Noriko Ogawa, the chair of the […]
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