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2024-02-14 15:17:55
Julian Perkins: From Handel’s Home: the Keyboards of Handel Hendrix House — original instruments for 18th-century music
Handel’s Mayfair house is host to some of the harpsichords played on the disc
2024-01-21 05:00:18
The track was first recorded by its reluctant author, country singer Carl Perkins
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-27 16:40:28
The Last Transcendentalist
[…] guided his critical assessments. Faucett explores Dwight’s opinions in depth. Dwight rejected both virtuoso music aimed at astonishing audiences and bombastic music aimed at pleasing crowds. Not unexpectedly, he rejected Berlioz, Wagner and Liszt for departing from pure music, but he also rejected Brahms as insufficiently spiritual (“lacking in genius”). Had Dwight heard Brahms’s late works, would he have changed his assessment? In the last period of his life, as he worked tirelessly for the Perkins School for the Blind and promoted blind musicians, Dwight came to regard Bach and Mendelssohn as the clearest representatives of “true” music. Faucett speculates that Dwight’s Journal of Music folded in part because Dwight could not, or would not, embrace modern trends and composers. Faucett concludes that Dwight held fast to the Transcendentalism that had spurred him to devote his life to music, living his last years modestly, in close connection to the Harvard […]
2023-11-01 07:38:00
Haven: Byrd, Paul Smith, de Monte, Taylor Scott Davis, Undine Smith Moore, Victora Vita Poleva, Michael McGlynn, Ola Gjeilo, Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenskaya, Sarah McLachlan, Marta Keen; Apollo5; VOCES8 RecordsReviewed 30 October 2023 by Florence Anna MaundersApollo5's new album features a glowing performance of Byrd's five-part mass alongside works carefully selected to sustain the meditative mood including six works commissioned for the albumThe five-voice a cappella ensemble Apollo5 has been with us for a dozen years now and continues to produce polished, glowing recordings with their new line up, including bass Augustus Perkins Ray (who blends perfectly with the remaining four members) for his first disc with the group, Haven on VOCES8 Records, which consists of the six movements of Byrd's masterful Mass for Five Voices intertwined with 11 other pieces from a remarkably wide range of other sources with music by Paul Smith, Philippe de Monte, Taylor Scott Davis, Undine Smith Moore, […]
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