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2022-12-22 12:58:00
[…] it was, Mozart just pipped him to the post. Concerts 7 Mozart6 Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann5 Liszt4 Messiaen, Strauss, Wagner3 Bartók, Busoni, Janáček, Mahler, Schubert, Xenakis2 Chopin, Debussy, Dvořák, Elgar, Pavel Haas, Haydn, Ravel, Scarlatti, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams1 John Adams, Julian Anderson, CPE Bach, JS Bach, Sally Beamish, Berio, Birtwistle, Arthur Bliss, Silvie Bodorova, Lili Boulanger, Boulez, Britten, Byrd, Francisco Coll, Louis Couperin, Tansy Davies, František Domažlický, Hanns Eisler, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Fauré, Morton Feldman, Franck, Goehr, Dieter Gogg, Helen Grime, Reynaldo Hahn, Handel, WH Harris, Henry VIII, Fred Hersch, Hindemith, John Ireland, Ives, Joel Järventausta, Zoltán Jeney, Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, Oliver Leith, Scott McLaughlin, Mendelssohn, Tristan Murail, Parry, Poulenc, Juta Pranulytė, Rameau, Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Roslavets, Hans Rott, Erwin Schulhoff, Scriabin, Jack Sheen, Valentin Silvestrov, Antonio Soler, Turnage, Viktor Ullmann, Galina Ustvolskaya, Varèse, Aleksandr Vustin, George Walker, Jennifer Walshe, Walton, Webern, Weill, Judith Weir, WolfOperas7 Wagner5 Mozart, Puccini3 Britten, Janáček2 […]
2022-12-09 00:00:00
Variations by Nineteen British Composers & Four Film Scores (Jac van Steen)
Themes & Variations - Variations by Nineteen British Composers01 - 07 Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (1953) [16'21] Theme 'Sellenger's Round' (William Byrd arr. Imogen Holst)Variations by Arthur Oldham, Michael Tippett, Lennox Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, Humphrey Searle and William Walton.08 - 13 Severn Bridge Variations (1966) [18'54]Theme 'Braint' Variations by Malcolm Arnold, Alun Hoddinott, Nicholas Maw, Daniel Jones, Grace Williams and Michael Tippett.14 - 20 Variations on 'Sumer Is Icumen In' (1987) [19'59] Theme (Oliver Knussen)Variations by Robert Saxton, Robin Holloway, Judith Weir, Alexander Goehr, Colin Matthews and Finale by David BedfordBBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jac van SteenNMC CD062 [recorded March 1999; issued 2001][digital download; flacs, cover booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, LondonRecording engineers: Tryggvi Tryggvason and Andrew Hallifax; Producer: Colin MatthewsAnd four British film scores from the same team:Love from a Stranger01 - 06 Benjamin Britten: Love from a Stranger [10'21]07 - 14 Roberto […]
2022-04-18 15:44:00
Harrison Birtwistle
[…] women's chorus, harp, and flute. Yan Tan Tethera is an ideal Birtwistle gateway work; it is a charming story involving the right way to count sheep and an encounter with the devil. There's also a chorus of sheep! Gawain is a most serious and powerful work, based on the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Birtwistle was a member of the so-called Manchester school, which also included the late Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, still living at 90 - a varied group! His music is complex, uncompromising, often outrageously loud, and well worth getting to know. I spotted him across a courtyard on the Festspielhaus grounds during Götterdämmerung at the 2015 Bayreuth Festival, and at the next interval, I was able to get his autograph. Time to find that notebook and finally get it framed. RIP Sir Harrison Birtwistle, one of the greats.
2022-04-18 14:04:19
The prolific British composer drew on poetry and folklore for his uncompromising but lyrical music. A Proms’ premiere, Panic, brought him national notoriety Harrison Birtwistle, one of the UK’s foremost composers, has died aged 87. Birtwistle’s compositions of uncompromising modernism – ranging from large-scale grand opera to intimate solo piano pieces – have dominated British music for more than five decades. He was born in Accrington in 1934, and as a young clarinettist played in theatre bands and began composing. He studied in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music, where, along with his fellow students Alexander Goehr and Peter Maxwell Davies, he was part of an explosion of musical creativity, and belonged to a group once labelled “the Manchester School”. His first chamber opera, Punch and Judy, premiered at the Aldeburgh festival in 1968, and legend has it that the violence of its story and music outraged much of […]
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