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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-10-01 23:03:23
Gravity Waves and Curveballs: Sherman Remembered
[…] who are not yet old will find it very difficult to imagine either the sea change that took place in the classical music environment in mid-1960s Boston, or the elevation of informed discourses thereon. The reason was the arrivals of accomplished musicologist Michael Steinberg at the Globe, then the working hornist, educator, and composer Gunther Schuller, who, as NEC president, engaged the serious piano prodigy (and Edward Steuermann student) Russell Sherman. Along with Brendel, Rosen, Kovacevich and a few others, Sherman opened our ears, hearts, and minds to fresh hearings of familiar classics, as well as to much new music. Soon after Sherman arrived, Steinberg wrote of his performance of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5: … still more valid evidence of the rightness of Sherman’s approach [was to be found] in the direct musical result, in the way melodies, figurations, whole paragraphs, took on a coherence in some respects […]
2023-07-14 00:00:00
Richard Rodney Bennett, Arthur Bliss, George Butterworth & Gustav Holst: The British Music Collections
[…] and David Willison's first recording of the Butterworth song cycles - made for Argo in July 1975. They went on to re-record them for Chandos in November 1989; also here on MIMIC.Richard Rodney Bennett:The British Music Collection01 - 04 Piano Concerto No. 1 [24'10]05 - 07 Concerto for Stan Getz [21'14]08 Murder On The Orient Express - Waltz [3'35]09 Four Weddings and a Funeral - Main Theme [3'38]10 Dream Sequence for cello and piano [6'47]Stephen Kovacevich-piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson (01-04 [January 1971])John Harle- saxophone, BBC Concerto Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth (05-07 [March 1993])Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conducted by John Mauceri (08-09 [January 1993 & September 1995])Julian Lloyd-Webber- cello & Richard Rodney Bennett (10 [October 1993])Decca 470371-2 (recorded 1971 to 1995; this compilation first issued 2006)[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Brent Town Hall, Wembley, London (01-04), BBC Hippodrome, Golders Green, London (05-07), Sony […]
2022-04-05 08:54:01
Six world premieres, celebrating RVW and Abba, a pop-up Handel opera: Ryedale Festival returns with 52 concerts
[…] well as celebrating the 50th birthday of Abba! There is a pop-up production of Handel's pastoral gem Acis and Galatea which will visit three ancient churches. Artists in residence include baritone Roderick Williams, the Maxwell Quartet, San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque (their first UK tour in over a decade), the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the Gesualdo Six, but there is also a chance to hear Dame Janet Baker in conversation, and pianist Stephen Kovacevich in recital, whilst the festival opens with the seven Kanneh-Mason siblings in concert. There is a strong focus on Ryedale Festival Young Artists. Violinist Roberts Balanas performs a late-night candlelit concert, while the Scottish accordionist Ryan Corbett sets out on a ‘troubadour trail’ bringing music, from Bach to Tchaikovsky, to beautiful and little-known churches across Ryedale. Siân Dicker, soprano, and Krystal Tunnicliffe, pianist, create a relaxed, informal and interactive concert for people living with […]
2021-12-27 06:14:00
[…] Philharmonic under Muti. The names don’t get much bigger than that. So, yes, Buchbinder is a world-class pianist. Does he deserve the adulation and honors he has received over the decades? Judging by the current album, certainly; although I would by no means declare any of these performances definitive or surpassing the dozens of fine recordings already available, separately or in complete sets. For that honor he would have had to impress me more than Kovacevich, Perahia, Richter, Ashkenazy, Brendel, Gilels, Kempff, Arrau, and others, which he didn’t do. So, no, I wouldn’t classify the present set as the final word on the subject, even though it has its merits.The program opens on disc one with the Piano Concerto Nos. 1 in C major, op. 15, with Andris Nelsons leading the Gewandhaus Orchestra accompanying Buchbinder. Beethoven wrote the Concerto No. 1 in 1795, premiered it with himself as soloist, and then revised it […]
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