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2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] An excellent performance and recording. Ludwig van Beethoven:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major, op.73 'Emperor' [39'38]04 - 06 Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, op.58 * [34'44]Peter Donohoe- piano & BBC Symphony Orchestra; Anthony Goldstone- piano & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra *; conducted by Norman Del MarBBC Radio Classics (IMP) BBCRD 9110 [recorded August 1982 and July 1981*; issued 1995][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recorded in concert at Royal Albert Hall, London. Recordings from BBC Sound Archives.Recording engineers: not given; Producers: Anthony Sargent and CB Samuelson* As with the Rachmaninov, this is the only recording of a Beethoven Concerto by Donohoe that I know of.George Gershwin:01 Rhapsody in Blue (original version, orch F Grofe) * [16'14]02 - 19 George Gershwin's Songbook [19'10]20 - 22 Piano Concerto in F major ^ [31'53]Peter Donohoe- piano; London Sinfonietta* and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra^ conducted by […]
2024-04-04 07:30:00
Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Royal Albert Hall, London, 5 Sep. 1978 Beethoven: Symphony N
2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] an artist-in-association with the BBC Singers. Interestingly, Lapwood (who also plays piano, violin and harp) runs a successful TikTok channel under the alias @annalapwoodorgan with more than half a million followers on which she mainly publishes excerpts from her musical work but also videos from her everyday life. She became well known to a wider audience via social networks when she spontaneously accompanied the electronic musician Bonobo on the organ with his song Otomo at the Royal Albert Hall. The video was viewed millions of times on TikTok alone. Tickets £12. Seating unreserved. And the famed and popular vocal ensemble, the BBC Singers (Thursday, 11 July, 7pm), conducted by Ashley Grote with David Dunnett (organ), offers a lovely and inviting programme to include works by Lowestoft-born composer Benjamin Britten with settings of texts by the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich as well as the powerful Missa brevis penned by Hungarian-born composer, Zoltán […]
2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] organ. This meant that when he came to play the Royal Festival Hall's organ, everything seemed to be familiar and with both instruments the organist is right up close to the instrument.Ralph Downes designed the organ to challenge the status quo of what an organ was in the 1950s. Organ building in Britain at the time still adhered to the romantic ideal as evinced by the organs at Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral and the Royal Albert Hall. But Downes was something of an outsider, when the musical establishment was conservative; Downes was not interested in the tradition of the organ as emulating an orchestra. Whilst Downes' approach was very forward-looking, he used techniques and philosophies from organ building from 200 years previously. At the time, the organ establishment was very dismissive of these 'primitive' organ-building techniques. James McVinnie (Photo: Graham Lacadao)However, James emphasises that the organ does speak with […]
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