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2024-04-18 09:15:00
Engaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar
Leeds Lieder 2024 - Joseph Middleton, James Newby - Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book ClubMatyas Seiber, John Jacob Niles, Thomas Traill, Joseph Suder, Percy Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Ravel: Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques, Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen; James Newby, Joseph Middleton; Leeds Lieder & Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book Club17 April 2024A new collaboration sees Leeds Lieder at a cool café/bar with an engaging and beautifully sung programme of songs inspired by folk-musicA former fuel storage tank is not the usual venue for a song recital, but Hyde Park Book Club is no usual venue and last night's recital there (17 April 2024) by baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton was a collaboration between Leeds Lieder (of which Middleton is the artistic director) and Through the Noise, the organisation that promotes its concerts, noisenights, via a distinctive crowdfunding model. The recital was all of folk-inspired music, from Matyas […]
2024-02-16 00:00:00
Some lesser-known 20th century Cello Concertos
Hungarian Cello Concertos:01 - 03 Mátyás Seiber: Tre Pezzi for cello & orchestra (1956) [19'57]04 - 06 Antal Dorati: Cello Concerto (1977) [33'42]07 - 09 Béla Bartók (arr. Tibor Serly): Viola Concerto (1945) [23'49]Raphael Wallfisch- cello, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Gábor Takács-NagyNimbus NI 5919 [recorded January 2014; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, WalesRecording engineer: Huw Thomas; Producer: Adrian FarmerBritish Cello Concertos:01 - 02 John Joubert: Cello Concerto, op.171 (2012) [23'02]03 - 06 Robert Simpson: Cello Concerto (1991) [28'40]07 - 09 Christopher Wright: Cello Concerto (2011) [18'56]Raphael Wallfisch- cello, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by William BoughtonLyrita SRCD344 [recorded December 2013; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, WalesRecording engineer: Huw Thomas; Producer: Adrian FarmerSainsbury and Foulds:01 - 03 Lionel Sainsbury: Cello Concerto, op.27 (1999) * [33'22]04 - 06 John Foulds: Cello Concerto […]
2023-04-07 01:00:00
Bliss, Rubbra, Seiber, Stravinsky: Orchestral Works (Hugo Rignold, Endre Wolf, John Dankworth et al)
[…] a Theme by Cyril Scott, op.69 (1949) * [4'44]05 Cyril Scott: Consolation (1918) * [6'34]06 - 08 Violin Concerto, op.103 (1959) ^ [31'30]City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hugo Rignold~; Edmund Rubbra- piano*; Endre Wolf- violin, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Schwarz^Lyrita 'Itter Broadcast Collection' REAM1134 [BBC broadcasts May 1967~, August 1967^ and February 1960; issued 2017] [digital download; mono flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue, Engineer and Producer: not statedCollaboration:01 Matyas Seiber & Johnny Dankworth: Improvisations for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra [10'30]02 Igor Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto * [9'30]03 - 07 Leonard Salzedo & David Lindup: Rendezvous for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra [15'00]Gervase de Peyer- clarinet*, Johnny Dankworth Band and London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hugo RignoldSociety [probably recorded in 1961; first issued in 1962 as Society SOC 963 and as Saga XIP 7006 (with the title Collaboration), digital download issued 2014][digital download; flacs, […]
2021-03-24 20:14:00
Music is the best way to travel
During the pandemic travel restrictions have, understandably, been a source of much frustration. But, puzzlingly, the music industry has done little to promote transcultural music as a viable substitute for travel. In fact, in art music monoculturalism has been replaced with monopluralism. A worrying development that finds expression in the mistaken belief that a spoonful of Mirga and Sheku helps systemic prejudice go down. Thankfully there are exceptions to this myopia, although you have to dig deep below the preoccupations of our classical commentators to find them. One of those notable exceptions is the new CD of Violin and Sitar Concertos from the father and son team of Jonathan and John Mayer. Born in Calcutta to an Anglo-Indian father and a Tamil mother in 1929, John Jiddhu Mayer was precociously talented and studied music from an early age. From seven he studied at the Calcutta School of Music and in 1952 came […]
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