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Percy Whitlock Briggs Vaughan Williams Charles Hylton Stewart Stiff Barber Brahms Elgar Parry Delius Rachmaninoff Quilter Warlock Bedford Coventry Cathedral 1903 1936 1979 1993
Percy Whitlock +••.••(...)): Organ Sonata in C minor (1936) - David Briggs at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, NYC In the immediate aftermath of the passing of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, it seems appropriate to present an organ piece which really couldn’t be more English! I have always loved the music of Percy Whitlock +••.••(...)) and am more than delighted to act as his musical ambassador today. Next Saturday is the 75th anniversary of PW's premature passing: Whitlock was evidently a sensitive character, quite fragile in health, leading to his early death from complications of hereditary hypertension at the age of only 42. But, in my experience, sensitive people often make the best musicians. Percy Whitlock studied at the RCM under Stanford and Vaughan Williams, and was for some years Assistant Organist at Rochester Cathedral, under Charles Hylton-Stewart. Later he took positions at St Stephen’s, Bournemouth (a wondrous John Loughborough Pearson anglo catholic church, where sadly he fell out with the plainsong choir director and resigned after only 3 years) and at the Bournemouth Pavilion, where he presided over (and largely maintained) the great Compton Organ. When he married his wife, Edna, rather amusingly he planned their three-day honeymoon centered on the Compton organ works, in London. She said in a 1979 interview that she was ‘bored stiff’! Whitlock was very mechanically-minded and made clocks out of Meccano. During their courtship, much of their time was spent train spotting, perched high up on a railway bridge near Rochester. Percy would assiduously write down the numbers of the steam locomotives. They were clearly very happily married, though. Edna lived on until 1993 and never remarried. Like many teenage organists of my generation, I grew up listening to the iconic LP of the Whitlock Sonata (1936) played by Graham Barber at Coventry Cathedral (which sadly never quite made it to CD format). I’ve played the first three movements quite frequently, since then. Several years ago, a close musical confidante said to me that they thought the last movement was far too long, and lets the Sonata down. One of several silver linings of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, has been to have the time to learn new repertoire - and the last movement of the Whitlock was a very welcome addition to the list. I have actually come to the conclusion that it makes a gloriously uplifting, varied and kaleidoscopic culmination to the Sonata - and isn't too long at all! You can certainly hear the influences of Brahms, Elgar, Parry, Delius - but one of the endearing facets of Whitlock’s music is his generously ripe harmonic language, somehow all his own. The sweeping Rachmaninoff-inspired tune in the last five minutes is so moving, with its inevitable and driving crescendo upwards, and the wonderful distillation of energy and complete calmness of the final bars certainly pulls at the heart strings. Technically it’s really quite demanding at times - PW must certainly have been a very good pianist! Sadly no Whitlock manuscripts are thought to exist, as he destroyed them all directly after OUP had received the final copy. This Sonata is such a passionate, dramatic and emotional piece - it feels like looking right into his eyes, sometimes. After the bold, rhapsodic introduction, the first movement oscillates between an enticingly stormy, almost Brahmsian first subject group and a second subject of ravishing lushness and warmth. The Canzona follows, with an apparent simplicity perhaps rather reminiscent of the English song composers Quilter and Warlock, but developed in a way to further showcase Whitlock's voluptuous harmonies. The Scherzo, with its irregular metre, is very joyful and reminds me of the lightweight, enthusiastic jingle of a vintage Bedford Ice Cream van, parading merrily along the crowded Bournemouth seafront, with the jovial, childlike innocence you associate with a large dollop of vanilla ice cream, dangerously careering down the poor unsuspecting cone underneath, all mysteriously held together by a delicious and inevitable Cadbury's Flake . The last movement, named 'Chorale' is a real musical smorgasbord. It boasts everything from a traditional hymn tune through to an Allegro of truly Elgarian military bombast and swagger, a Bachian fugato (in 2 parts!), a high-voltage, extremely virtuosic Scherzo (again with Brahmsian cross rhythms), and a big tune which almost beats Rachmaninoff at his own game. I’m very happy to share my love for this music with you, and I hope you will be moved and nourished by its colossally wide-ranging multitude of emotions.
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Dmitri Schostakowitsch Stiff Becker 2006
Humour, sarcasm, grotesqueness - and not least an overriding pessimism - are characteristics not only found in Shostakovich himself but also in his music. The film intends to be as authentic as possible in portraying the composer, neither denouncing him as an opportunist nor praising him as a dissident. The seven chapters rather try to reconstruct how the young star composer, who renouncing the traditional was known for his grotesque distortions, became the stiff state composer most of whose life is still shrouded in mystery. A film by Oliver Becker and Katharina Bruner Watch more videos about Dmitri Schostakowitsch and other russian composers: (http•••) Subscribe to LOFTmusic: (http•••)
Mussorgsky Sava Vemić Stern Stiff 1839 1881 2021
from "The Song recital for bass and piano" at Kolarac Hall, Belgrade (Serbia) April 20th 2021. Bass: Sava Vemić Piano: Vladimir Gligorić Composer: M. P. Mussorgsky +••.••(...)) from the cycle "Songs and Dances of Death" Video: Diznilend Studio, Belgrade Audio: Miloš Marinković, Belgrade Subtitles: Sava Vemić, Saša Malkov The figure of Death waits outside the window of a dying woman, in the manner of a wooing lover. Серенада (стихи: Арсе́ний Арка́дьевич Голени́щев-Куту́зов) Нега волшебная, ночь голубая, трепетный сумрак весны. Внемлет, поникнув головкой, больная шопот ночной тишины. Сон не смыкает блестящие очи, жизнь к наслажденью зовёт, а под окошком в молчаньи полночи смерть серенаду поёт: «В мраке неволи суровой и тесной молодость вянет твоя; Рыцарь неведомый, силой чудесной освобожу я тебя. Встань, посмотри на себя: красотою лик твой прозрачный блестит, щёки румяны, волнистой косою стан твой, как тучей обвит. Пристальных глаз голубое сиянье, ярче небес и огня; Зноем полуденным веет дыханье... Ты обольстила меня. Слух твой пленился моей серенадой, рыцаря шопот твой звал, рыцарь пришёл за последней наградой: Час упоенья настал. Нежен твой стан, упоителен трепет... О, задушу я тебя в крепких объятьях: любовный мой лепет «Слушай!... молчи!... Ты моя!»`` Serenade (poem by A. Golenishchev-Kutuzov translated by Sava Vemić) A magical bliss, blue night, trembling twilight of spring. With her head dropped, the ill girl is absorbing the whisper of the night’s silence. Sleep doesn’t close her shining eyes, life to pleasure calls. And under the window in the silence of midnight The Death sings a serenade: “In the dark of captivity, stern and stiff your youth is withering; I, Knight-errant, by wondrous power will free you. Arise, look at yourself, your beautiful face transparently shines, your rosy cheeks and wavy hair your figure is as with a cloud entwined. The blue shining of your staring eyes, is brighter than heaven's and flame! Like midday heat wafts your breath… You have seduced me. Your hearing is captivated by my serenade, your whisper called the Knight and the Knight has come for the final reward - The moment of rapture has arrived. Your tender figure and delightful trembling… Oh, I will suffocate you in my strong embrace. Listen to the murmuring of my love… Hush!…You are mine!”
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