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2023-10-16 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 61 (CD Reviews)
[…] on this program? These two concertos manage to intermingle feelings of hope and hopelessness while expressing both with deft artistry, both in their composition (thanks to Mozart) and their performance (thanks to Vogt and the Chamber Orchestra of Paris). The engineers and producers also deserve special mention for the pleasing sound quality and touching liner notes, which combine to make this a remarkable release in every way. Yussef Dayes: Black Classical Music. Black Classical Music; Afro Cubanism; Raisins Under the Sun; Rust; Turquoise Galaxy; The Light; Pon di Plaza; Magnolia Symphony; Early Dayes; Chasing the Drum; Birds of Paradise; Gelato; Marching Band; Crystal Palace Park; Presidential; Jukebox; Woman's Touch; Tioga Pass; Cowrie Charms. Yussef Dayes, drums, vocals; Charlie Stacey, piano, keyboards, synthesizers; Venna, saxophone; Rocco Palladino, bass; Alexander Bourt, congas, percussion; Rory Cashmere Pagan, live Fx; Shabaka Hutchings, bass clarinet; Miles James, guitar, synthesizers; Sheila Maurice Grey, trumpet; Nathaniel Cross, tuba; Tom Misch, guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals; Paris Fabienne, vocals; Chronixx, vocals, guitar, bass; Adrian “Jerks” Henry, bass; Chineke! Orchestra; Dave […]
2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
Britten: Peter Grimes - English National Opera (Photo: Tom Bowles)Britten:Peter Grimes; John Findon, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Simon Bailey, Christine Rice, director: David Alden, Martyn Brabbins; English National OperaReviewed by Tony Cooper, 6 October 2023David Alden’s production of Britten’s Peter Grimes has been a big success for English National Opera. A five-star job, really, long may it stay in the repertoireDue to the unavailability of Gwyn Hughes Jones, the pivotal role of Peter Grimes fell to British tenor, John Findon, who fitted so well the sea boots of this lone and anguished fisherman. Partly written in America during the Second World War where Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears were escaping war-torn Britain on a pacifist ticket, Peter Grimes was premièred by Sadler’s Wells Opera (later to become English National Opera) at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Islington, on 7 June 1945, conducted by Reginald Goodall with Peter Pears in the title-role. First seen in […]
2022-06-29 04:00:00
Mozart und seine Zeitgenossen (Plamena Nikitassova & Aline Zylberajch)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Sonata in E-flat major, for Violin & Piano, KV302Sonata in B-flat major, for Violin & Piano, KV454Joseph Welsh (18th Century)Theme and Variations from ''Airs varies pour un Violon'' Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739-1796)Sonata for Solo Violin with AccompanimentSonata in F major, for Piano with Violin ObliggatoAntoine Lacroix (1756-1806)Theme and Variations from ''Airs varies pour un Violon''Plamena Nikitassova, Violin; Aline Zylberajch, FortepianoClaves 50 1819 (2018) [Flac & Scans]
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