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It’s a while since there’s been an album devoted to Tōru Takemitsu‘s orchestral music, so it’s been good to spend time with a new release from the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Christian Karlsen, that explores four of the composer’s works from the ’80s and ’90s. One of them is purely… The post appeared first on 5:4. 5:4 is on Patreon! Please consider supporting the blog by becoming a Patron from just $2 a month: https://www.patreon.com/5against4
2021-03-01 06:26:00
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez (SACD review)
Also, music by Coll, de Falla, Albeniz, Harden. Jacob Kellermann, guitar; Christian Karlsen, London Philharmonic Orchestra; Norrbotten NEO. BIS BIS-2485.By John J. PuccioAccording to Wikipedia, “The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, has been applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times and as such causes confusion. The English word guitar, the German Gitarre, and the French guitare were all adopted from the Spanish guitarra, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic (qitharah) and the Latin cithara, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek. Kithara appears in the Bible four times (1 Cor. 14:7, Rev. 5:8, 14:2 and 15:2), and is usually translated into English as harp.”So the origins of the modern guitar date back thousands of years. The surprise is that Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) didn’t write what has become quite possibly the most-popular guitar concerto of all time, the Concierto de Aranjuez, until 1939. What’s more, […]
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2018-12-16 14:30:51
The Power Couple At The Top Of British Indie Films
One Brit and one American reinvented the British indie, and have found massive cross-Atlantic success with everything from The Crying Game to Carol to Collette. And they don’t care for sequels. Elizabeth Karlsen: “Chasing the newest thing can actually be a producer’s downfall. And there is an economic imperative that can set in and make you try to turn movie-making […]
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2016-05-23 14:30:54
No classical names in anti-Brexit culture list
[…] Yates, Film director Deborah Bull*, Assistant Principal (London) King’s College London Deborah Dawton, Chief Executive of the Design Business Association Declan Donnellan, Artistic Director, Cheek by Jowl Dominic Cooke CBE, Director Dominic West, Actor Douglas Gordon, Artist Dr. Sandie Shaw Chair, Featured Artist Coalition Ed Simons, Musician Eddie Izzard, Comedian Edie Campbell, Model Editors, Musicians Edward Hall, Artistic Director Hampstead Theatre Elizabeth Karlsen, Producer and co-founder of Number 9 Films Elizabeth Price, Artist Emily Eavis, Co-organiser of the Glastonbury Festival Eric Fellner, Co-Chairman, Working Title Films Fabrizio Zappaterra, Chairman, Temperley London, and Director, Hunter Boot Limited Felix Barrett, Founder and artistic director of Punchdrunk Fergus Linehan*, Director of the Edinburgh International Festival Francesca Hayward, Ballet Dancer Franz Ferdinand (Alex Kapranos, Bob Hardy, Nick McCarthy, Paul Thomson), Musicians Gail […]
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