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Reynaldo Hahn Hahn Benjamin Baker Lowe James Baillieu Fauré Schubert Mendelssohn Cheek Bayreuth Messager 1874 1875 1921 1922 1947 2015
Reynaldo Hahn +••.••(...)) - Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor (1921) I. Molto agitato e con fuoco [0:00] II. Andante, non troppo lento [12:39] III. Allegretto grazioso [23:06] Benjamin Baker & Bartosz Woroch, violin Adam Newman, viola Tim Lowe, cello James Baillieu, piano (2015) Reynaldo Hahn's Piano Quintet is a work in three movements typically lasting around 28 minutes. "Hahn’s Piano Quintet was composed in 1922 and published the following year. Its opening is fresh, agreeably direct and completely without preamble. The style is both comfortably eclectic and unashamedly retrospective: modulation techniques suggest the most youthful works of Fauré, such as his A major Violin Sonata, Opus 13 (1875/6), while the natural songwriter’s intermittent taste for unassuming chordal repetition in the piano accompaniment to overt thematic exposition suggests a remote debt to Schubert. The music—and in particular its fleet-footed but economical piano part—has a deft, lucid mobility and an economy of rhetorical gesture far less easy to achieve than it sounds. A Dvorák-like openness and quasi-vernacular charm comes and goes, while at other times the pianist’s indefatigable ripplings suggest Mendelssohn’s piano-trio writing. A memorably successful second subject gives place to resourceful examination of both principal ideas. F sharp major expansiveness asserts itself late on in the movement, only to be subverted by the almost tongue-in-cheek terseness of a final return to the minor. The slow second movement presents a soulful, song-like theme in C sharp minor. Fauré seems to preside more closely over the unhurried triple time and the instrumentation itself. Tritonal opposition of non-cadential dominant sevenths and ninths enhance the ‘sidestepping’ effect of key changes, perhaps reminding one that the youthful Fauré had pursued Wagner performances to Bayreuth and to England in company with Messager in the eighteen-eighties, and suggesting that Wagnerian technique (not generally very apparent in Fauré’s stylistic make-up) might nonetheless be a productive subliminal influence for the perceptive Fauré disciple. This movement remains predominantly introverted, ostensibly heading towards a climax but then relaxing into the idyllic retrospection of an unexpected F major episode (ushering in a change of time signature). The dominant pedal note underpinning this passage conveys a certain quasi-rustic wistfulness which again suggests the prayer-like sensibility of certain quiet Dvorák chamber movements. Subsequent features include string unison writing (typical of Fauré) at moments of heightened intensity, ingenious combination of the themes from both foregoing sections (and time signatures), and a reprise of the secondary paragraph, heard now a semitone lower than before. The movement reaches an unhurried conclusion in the key of C sharp major. The Quintet’s third and last movement plays a time-honoured ‘is-it-a-scherzo/intermezzo-or-a-finale?’ game, launching itself with amiable simplicity as another would-be rustic conception over a musette-like pedal note. As this proceeds it begins to admit a touch of melodic ‘neo-Baroquery’. This, in studiedly perverse combination with the homespun wistfulness of the initial conception, seems almost to suggest the improbable intrusion of some synthetically conceived public school song. More to the point, it conveys a shrewdly misleading impression of much more episodic and unassuming structural thinking than is actually at work, as does the Schumannesque cleanness of the ensuing episode’s dialogue between melodic piano octaves and punctuating harmonic strings. Soon the main theme burgeons momentarily in E major. The thematic material of the first movement now becomes more prominent. Some ingeniously resourceful combination of these ideas with those of the slow movement ensues (embracing a mischievous false recapitulation in the key of F major, not F sharp) before a radiant statement of the inspired second subject from the work’s first movement bursts forth in A major. This, however, is not allowed to gain ideas above its station, and nor are we as near the end of the work as its appearance seems to suggest. The generalized example of Fauré and the specific one of Dvorák’s A major Piano Quintet seem to compete amicably (and convincingly) for the limelight. A recapitulation beset by agreeable sleights-of-hand extends the canonic and other possibilities of the music in an F sharp major coda which is in no hurry to end the proceedings but which, thanks to the memorably distinct nature of the principal themes, never threatens to outstay its welcome." (source: Hyperion)
Peri Arthur Sullivan Sir Malcolm Sargent Ian Wallace Alexander Young Owen Brannigan John Cameron Monica Sinclair Sinclair Marjorie Thomas April Cantelo Heather Harper Elsie Morison Pro Arte Orchestra 1958 2010
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri: Act I, Good morrow, good mother · Arthur Sullivan · Sir Malcolm Sargent · Glyndebourne Festival Chorus · Pro Arte Orchestra · George Baker · Ian Wallace · Alexander Young · Owen Brannigan · John Cameron · Monica Sinclair · Marjorie Thomas · April Cantelo · Heather Harper · Elsie Morison Sullivan: Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri (1958) , Vol. 1 ℗ 2010 Classical Moments Released on: 2010-10-19 Screenplay Author: W. S. Gilbert Auto-generated by YouTube.
Louise Kirkby Lunn Kirkby Lunn Saint Saens Percy Pitt Henry Wood I Sang Herman Klein Greenwood Jacques Bouhy All Saints Church Covent Garden Carl Rosa Opera Company Metropolitan Opera 1890 1895 1896 1899 1900 1901 1902 1906 1909 1912 1914 1930
This is a further title recorded by Kirkby Lunn on 29 June 1909 with orchestra conducted by Percy Pitt. Kirkby Lunn is all but forgotten nowadays, yet no less an authority than Sir Henry Wood praised her as 'a singer with a glorious voice and an even tone throughout a compass of well over two octaves, a singer with whom I never found fault in so much as a quaver in all the years I worked with her, and who never sang out of tune.' Herman Klein referred to her 'warm rich notes of true contralto quality.' Kirkby Lunn was a stage name, adopted quite early in her career. She was born Louisa Baker, the daughter of Manchester confectioner W. H. Baker and his wife Mary Elizabeth Kirkby. Her cousin was James Baker, who sang professionally and made many popular recordings under the name Stanley Kirkby. From Wikipedia: Kirkby Lunn (pronounced Kirby Lunn) had her early vocal training in her native city of Manchester, at All Saints Church. She sang there in the choir under Dr J. H. Greenwood, the church's organist, and later appeared at concerts in the city. In 1890, she obtained a place at the Royal College of Music in London and studied for three years with Albert Visetti, also training for opera... She also studied for some time with Jacques Bouhy in Paris. In 1895, she appeared in the first season of Promenade concerts for Henry J. Wood. Augustus Harris gave her a five-year contract almost upon first hearing... [In 1896] she joined the Carl Rosa Opera Company, performing as principal mezzo-soprano in London and on tour in the provinces in Carmen, Mignon, Lohengrin, Rigoletto and other works... She remained with the Carl Rosa until 1899, the year in which she married W. J. Pearson. She was particularly active in the 1900–1901 Queen's Hall season with Wood... From 1901 to 1914, Louise Kirkby Lunn appeared regularly at the Covent Garden, and for several of those years also in the United States, especially at the Metropolitan Opera in the seasons of 1902–03, 1906–08 and 1912–14. She was particularly successful in Wagnerian opera parts... Before the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Kirkby Lunn had been in great demand for oratorio appearances on the European Continent, and she sang frequently as far afield as Budapest. New York also heard her during this period. In 1912, she had made a tour of Australia with William Murdoch, the celebrated pianist who had made his London debut two years earlier.... She died in London on 17 February 1930.
Louise Kirkby Lunn Kirkby Lunn Trevalsa Henry Wood I Sang Herman Klein Greenwood Jacques Bouhy All Saints Church Covent Garden Carl Rosa Opera Company Metropolitan Opera 1890 1895 1896 1899 1900 1901 1902 1906 1912 1913 1914 1930
Louise Kirkby Lunn sings 'My Treasure,' recorded on 16 October 1913. Kirkby Lunn is all but forgotten nowadays, yet no less an authority than Sir Henry Wood praised her as 'a singer with a glorious voice and an even tone throughout a compass of well over two octaves, a singer with whom I never found fault in so much as a quaver in all the years I worked with her, and who never sang out of tune.' Herman Klein referred to her 'warm rich notes of true contralto quality.' Kirkby Lunn was a stage name, adopted quite early in her career. She was born Louisa Baker, the daughter of Manchester confectioner W. H. Baker and his wife Mary Elizabeth Kirkby. Her cousin was James Baker, who sang professionally and made many popular recordings under the name Stanley Kirkby. From Wikipedia: Kirkby Lunn (pronounced Kirby Lunn) had her early vocal training in her native city of Manchester, at All Saints Church. She sang there in the choir under Dr J. H. Greenwood, the church's organist, and later appeared at concerts in the city. In 1890, she obtained a place at the Royal College of Music in London and studied for three years with Albert Visetti, also training for opera... She also studied for some time with Jacques Bouhy in Paris. In 1895, she appeared in the first season of Promenade concerts for Henry J. Wood. Augustus Harris gave her a five-year contract almost upon first hearing... [In 1896] she joined the Carl Rosa Opera Company, performing as principal mezzo-soprano in London and on tour in the provinces in Carmen, Mignon, Lohengrin, Rigoletto and other works... She remained with the Carl Rosa until 1899, the year in which she married W. J. Pearson. She was particularly active in the 1900–1901 Queen's Hall season with Wood... From 1901 to 1914, Louise Kirkby Lunn appeared regularly at the Covent Garden, and for several of those years also in the United States, especially at the Metropolitan Opera in the seasons of 1902–03, 1906–08 and 1912–14. She was particularly successful in Wagnerian opera parts... Before the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Kirkby Lunn had been in great demand for oratorio appearances on the European Continent, and she sang frequently as far afield as Budapest. New York also heard her during this period. In 1912, she had made a tour of Australia with William Murdoch, the celebrated pianist who had made his London debut two years earlier.... She died in London on 17 February 1930.
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