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2022-05-06 13:46:22
An ensemble like no other: Peter Wiegold and The Third Orchestra at Grand Junction
[…] transformative and transporting evening which managed to transcend the limitations of playing in a church (stunning though it is, St Mary Magdalene does not have anything like the atmosphere of the original Club Inégales. But the musicians rose about this, and refashioned the venue to their own image as they came together in a rather amazing way. The performers were Alice Zawadski (voice, violin), Rouhangeze (voice), Max Baillie (violin), Colin Alexander (cello), Cheng Yu (pipa),Wang Xiao (erhu), Rihab Azar (oud), Byron Wallen (trumpet), Anoushka Naguy (trombone), Alina Bzhezhinska (harp), Matthew Bourne (keyboards), Fiona Troon (bassoon, contra-bassoon), Soren Birke (harmonica, jew's harp, duduk), Shri Sriram (bass, tablas, flute), Bernhard Schimpelsberger (percussion), Peter Wiegold (artistic director, conductor, keyboards). A Third Orchestra Foundation is being set up to support Peter Wiegold and John Cumming's vision for a diverse, multi-cultural ensemble without boundaries. The concert was recorded for future broadcast by the BBC and […]
2021-10-04 23:00:00
20th Century Violin Concertos by Szymanowski, Bartok, Frank Martin, Milhaud & Barber [Dene Olding & Xiao-Dong Wang] and more Barber
20th Century Violin Concertos1.01. Karel Szymanowski - Violin Concerto No.1, op.35 [24'09]1.02. - 1.04. Bela Bartok - Violin Concerto No.2, Sz.112 [38'09]Xiao-Dong Wang- violin, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Omri Hadari2.01 - 2.03. Frank Martin - Violin Concerto [30'41]2.04. - 2.06. Darius Milhaud - Violin Concerto No. 2, op.263 [26'07]2.07. - 2.09. Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto, op.14 [23'08]Dene Olding- violin, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hiroyuki IwakiABC Classics 4764333 [recorded December 1988 [1] and May 1990 [2]; digital download released 2011] [digital download; flacs, booklet and cover scans] Recording venues: Adelaide Town Hall [1] & Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Victoria [2]Recording engineers: Graham Milne [1] and Jim Atkins [1 & 2]; Producer: Maria Vandamme [1 & 2] This twofer release combines two separate CDs first issued in 1989 and 1991 respectively. My primary interest was in the second disc featuring two less well-known concertos plus the popular Barber concerto […]
2021-06-08 00:00:00
Roger Woodward - A Concerto Collection
[…] Albert Rosen [1982 live]4.16. - 4.18. Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, op.26 [28'25]4.19. - 4.21. Alexander Scriabin - Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op.20 [25'45]4.22. - 4.25. Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Concerto, op.42 [22'33]with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart [between 1997 & 2000 live]A Concerto Collection. Vol.II5.26. - 5.28. Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op.18 [33'04]with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit [2003 live]5.29. Qu Xiao-song - Huan, for piano and 40-part strings [15'27]with Camerata Australia, Diego Masson [1997?, live]5.30. Alexander Scriabin - Prometheus. The Poem of Fire, op.60 # [24'15]with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Diego Masson [1997 live]6.31. - 6.52. Larry Sitsky - Piano Concerto 'The Twenty-Two Paths of the Tarot' [26'44]with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn [1997]6.53. - 6.57. Barry Conyngham - Southern Cross. Double Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra ^ [32'47]with Wanda Wilkomirska- violin, […]
2021-03-07 10:37:13
A Life On-Line: Welsh song, 20th-century quartets and quintets, Lamentations old and new
[…] (1871-1954). Keel wrote at least one of the songs whilst he was confined in the Ruhleben internment camp near Berlin during World War I. [YouTube] BCMG continued its on-line season with Back to the beginning, a striking programme of music by British and Chinese composers, interleaving music by Sir Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934), Oliver Knussen (1952-2018), John Woolrich (born 1954), Julian Anderson (b. 1967), Charlotte Bray (b.1982) with music by Jia Guoping (b.1963) and Ma Xiao-Qing (b. 1996). Ma Xiao-Qing's Back to the Beginning for solo violin was a world premiere and part of BCMG's innovative Sound Investors commissioning programme. [BCMG] The English Symphony Orchestra is presenting a programme of music by American composer Steven R Gerber (born1948), and no I had not come across him either. Born Washington DC, and now living in New York, his composition teachers included Robert Parris, J. K. Randall, Earl Kim, and Milton Babbitt. […]
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