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2024-04-24 11:23:00
Summer at Snape, Britten Pears Arts' series of events at Snape returns for 2024
Summer at Snape, Britten Pears Arts' series of events at Snape returns for 2024 with 50 events from 26 July to 31 August. Visiting orchestras include John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London in Britten and Walton, Simon Over and Southbank Sinfonia in Brahms and Rachmaninoff, Peter Whelan and Irish Baroque Orchestra in a programme of Baroque classics, Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra in Elgar and Sibelius, and BBC Concert Orchestra presenting Friday Night is Music Night. Visiting artists include violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien in Beethoven, Janáček, Enescu, and Barry, pianist Alim Beisembayev - Winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha and pianist Simon Lepper in Mahler, Wagner, and South African songs, guitarist Milos and pianist Stephen Hough.Other visitors include the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain, Black Dyke Band, United Strings of Europe, Apollo5 and The Gesualdo Six in a programme exploring […]
2022-11-25 05:00:00
Music for Brass Band by Gregson, Lloyd, McCabe et al (Besses o' th' Barn, Black Dyke & Grimethorpe Bands)
The Complete Champions01 - 03 Wilfred Heaton: Contest Music [13'55]04 - 06 George Lloyd: Royal Parks [14'38]07 - 09 Gilbert Vinter: Salute to Youth [12'19]10 John McCabe: Cloudcatcher Fells [17'54]Black Dyke Mills Band conducted by Major Peter ParkesChandos CHAN8483 [recorded January 1986; issued 1986][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Dewsbury Town Hall, West Yorkshire, UKRecording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian CouzensAnybody collecting the music of George Lloyd may be surprised by the considerably more aggressive performance of Royal Parks here than on the later all-Lloyd English Heritage album for Albany made by the Black Dyke Band in 1991. And here, we also have John McCabe's Cloudcatcher Fells - one of the finest works for brass band that I know, but so rarely recorded. Fortunately, this performance is excellent.And now more George Lloyd, also on the English Heritage album but this time from Grimethorpe and with Major Peter Parkes […]
2022-11-11 00:00:00
Arthur Butterworth: Music for Brass Band (Black Dyke Band & Nicholas Childs)
Arthur Butterworth (1923 - 2014): 01 - 03 Three Impressions for Brass, op.36 [11'00]04 Passacaglia on a Theme of Brahms, Op. 87 [11'55]05 - 07 Sinfonia Concertante, op.111 * [15'55]08 Johannes Brahms (transc. Butterworth): Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, op.24 [21'05]Lesley Howie- tenor horn and Robert Blackburn- baritone horn*, Black Dyke Band conducted by Nicholas ChildsDoyen DOYCD130 [recorded 2001; issued 2001][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Morley Town Hall, West Yorkshire, UKRecording engineers: Harold Barnes and Richard Scott; ProducerS: Paul Hindmarsh and Alison ChildsManchester-born teacher, trumpeter, conductor and composer - no relation to, and not to be confused with, George Butterworth. And here is the only recording of his Fifth Symphony fittingly conducted by the composer. As far as I know, there are still no recordings at all of his Third, Sixth and Seventh Symphonies:01 - 03 Symphony No. 5, op.115 [28'00]04 - 06 Three Nocturnes, […]
2021-06-05 05:13:00
Classical Music News of the Week, June 5, 2021
[…] visit https://moabmusicfest.org/ --Elizabeth Dworkin, Dworkin & Company Midori Receives Kennedy Center HonorsYo-Yo Ma and Bette Midler are among those who will pay tribute to the violinist Midori on the upcoming CBS broadcast of the 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors, Sunday, June 6, on CBS at 8:00 pm ET/PT, hosted by Gloria Estefan. Midori is one of five Kennedy Center Honorees; the others are Joan Baez, Garth Brooks, Debbie Allen and Dick Van Dyke. The CBS broadcast of the Kennedy Center Honors features remarks by conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel; actor, poet, author and singer John Lithgow; and actor, singer, songwriter, author and comedian Bette Midler. Multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach's Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1 and violinists Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony perform Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, II. Largo. Hilary Hahn performs Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s ‘Symposium’) III: […]
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