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2024-04-17 21:04:04
PREVIEW | Esprit Orchestra Ends 2023-24 Season With Sonic Universe
Esprit Orchestra will conclude their 41st season with Sonic Universe on April 25, featuring compositions by R. Murray Schafer and iconic John Adams.
2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No.2 in G major, op.44 (original version) [46'45]04 Piano Concerto No.3 in E-flat major, op.75 [16'07]Peter Donohoe- piano, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf BarshaiEMI CDC749940-2 [recorded August 1986 and July & August 1987; issued 1990][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Dorset, UKRecording engineers: Mike Clements and Mike Hatch; Producer: Andrew KeenerPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:01 - 02 Concert Fantasia op.56 [27'52]03 - 05 Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, op.23 [36'03]Peter Donohoe- piano, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf BarshaiEMI CDC749939-2 [recorded July & August 1989 and July 1988; issued 1990][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Dorset, UKRecording engineers: Mike Clements and Mike Hatch; Producer: Andrew KeenerRachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Borodin:01 Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paginini, op.43 ^ [23'33]02 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Waltz from 'Swan Lake, Act 1' [7'37]03 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: […]
2024-03-29 00:00:00
Music from the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Music from Estonia Vol.1:01 Heino Eller: Elegia for harp and strings (1931) [12'59]02 - 06 Heino Eller: Five Pieces for string orchestra (1953) [15'21]07 Heino Eller: Tone Poem 'Dawn' (1918) [8'10]08 - 10 Kaljo Raid: Symphony No.1 in C minor (1944) [37'31]Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme JärviChandos CHAN8525 [recorded August 1986; first released 1987][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: SNO Centre, Glasgow, ScotlandRecording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian CouzensMusic from Estonia Vol.2:01 - 04 Artur Lemba: Symphony in C-sharp minor (1908) [39'58]05 Rudolf Tobias: 'Julius Caesar' Overture (1896) [10'08]06 Heino Eller: Tone Poem Videvik 'Twilight' (1917) [6'00]07 Veljo Tormis: Overture No.2 (1959) [11'07]08 Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977) [6'14]Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme JärviChandos CHAN8656 [recorded August 1987 & May 1988; first released 1989][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Henry Wood Hall [01-05], Glasgow and Caird Hall, […]
2024-03-28 07:52:00
Marriner 100: the Academy of St Martin in the Fields celebrates the centenary of its founder
Sir Neville MarrinerNext month, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields is celebrating the centenary of its founder Sir Neville Marriner (1924-2016) with a programme events beginning on what would have been Sir Neville's 100th birthday (15 April 2024), with concerts celebrating both Marriner and the orchestra's long-standing relationships with other musicians.Things begin with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at its spiritual home, St Martin in the Fields, with direction shared between Joshua Bell, Tomo Keller and Jaime Martin in a programme of Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Vaughan Williams and Errollyn Wallen. Then on 16 April, the ASMF Chamber Ensemble is joined by Joshua Bell and pianist Murray Perrahia, in what will be his first performance in six years, at Wigmore Hall for Mendelssohn, Schumann and Sally Beamish [see my 2019 interview where Sally Beamish talks about her personal links with the orchestra]. There is a centenary gala concert […]
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