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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Coleridge-Taylor Chamber Music
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on: May 31, 2022, 06:17:52 pm
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It seems that Chineke! performed Avril C-T's Sussex Landscape, Op.27 at the QEH in 2019. The blurb accompanying that concert decsribed it as "an expansive reflection on the beauty of that part of southern England where she spent the final years of her life" (although it's worth pointing out that it was written in 1936 and she died as recently as 1998 at the age of 95. If only her pa had lived that long...) Anyhow, as it's already in their repertoire, perhaps that's what's going to accompany her dad's fiddle concerto on the new record.
Now, that's very interesting! I don't know Avril's complete worklist, other than what can readily be found in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Coleridge-Taylor#Works- but if she had even an ounce of her father's ability, it should be worth hearing! :) I am currently sourcing a copy of the "Sussex Landscape" recording. ;) Ooh you clever old sausage, you! ;D Duly done, in the archive shortly! :D Thank you - what a fine piece of writing! Excellent performance, too..... P
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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Leonid Polovinkin
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on: November 30, 2021, 12:06:14 pm
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Thank you for this. Is there a list of the works available there? The site won't register me despite assuring me it has sent a confirmation email, which is very frustrating. I've tried twice, and the email asking for confirmation of email address hasn't turned up in my inbox or in spam. Top left has a pull-down menu for sending feedback, so I've used that to inform about the problem..... P I registered again with another hotmail email address but kept the page in Russian and got an immediate response to confirm application. No reply about the first application, though. I find I can play various works online, but there seems no way to download (other than using the Firefox plug-in?). Thanks for alerting us to this interesting site. Golovanov as composer is also on the list of performances. P
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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Leonid Polovinkin
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on: November 29, 2021, 08:27:09 pm
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Thank you for this. Is there a list of the works available there? The site won't register me despite assuring me it has sent a confirmation email, which is very frustrating. I've tried twice, and the email asking for confirmation of email address hasn't turned up in my inbox or in spam. Top left has a pull-down menu for sending feedback, so I've used that to inform about the problem..... P
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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Second-Tier English Symphonies
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on: March 15, 2019, 01:09:10 pm
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Should one suppose that, as no recent symphonies have been mentioned, English composers who still contribute to the medium no longer write "Second-Tier" examples?...
To me, the problem with many later composers in regards to this lumping is the "English essence" part. Without any other consideration, I would consider some of that to be the usage or influence of English (or, at least, British Isles) folk song -- not necessarily a direct quote per se, but at least some influence. Many 20th century composers are more chromatic / sharp or more experimental, leading to a harmonic sound that is quite far away from the idioms of English folk music. As a result, I would have trouble saying, say, Peter Maxwell Davies's symphonies or Michael Tippett's symphonies as having much "English character", even though they are well thought of as composers, meet much of the other criteria, and in both cases I think do have other non-symphony output that might fits the "folksong" motif. PMD's may on occasion have some Caledonian character which is probably off-topic under the circumstances. Perhaps. I see plenty of contemporary British symphonies on release by Toccata, Dutton and so on - I'm sure they've been discussed ad nauseam - and notice Ken Woods is about to record some of Christopher Gunning's symphonies next month. Whether all these are "first-tier" or not is, I would have thought, a matter of opinion. I was much impressed recently by John Joubert's Third........................ ............................. ................ P
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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Lyrita?
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on: November 30, 2018, 06:23:42 am
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New release from the Itter collection on Lyrita, using the Cameo Classics label: CC9108SIR MALCOLM SARGENT CONDUCTS HECTOR BERLIOZ The Damnation Of Faust, Op. 24 Joan Hammond, mezzo-soprano Marguerite, a young woman Richard Lewis, tenor Faust, an aging scholar Marian Nowakowski, bass Mephistopheles, the Devil disguised as a gentleman Hervey Alan, bass-baritone Brander, a student BBC Choral Society BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Broadcast live from the Royal Festival Hall 25 February 1953 ANTONIN DVORÁK Te Deum Op. 103 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano Bruce Boyce, baritone BBC Choral Society • BBC Symphony Orchestra Part of the Dvorák Commemoration Concert, BBC Broadcast live from the Royal Festival Hall 26 May 1954 https://www.mdt.co.uk/berlioz-the-damnation-of-faust-sir-malcolm-sargent-cameo-2cds-1.html
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Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Naxos
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on: July 03, 2018, 07:30:28 am
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It is in fact a complete set of the Brahms symphonies played by the Gyor Philharmonic Orchestra from Hungary.
One does not wish to be unkind to Naxos-which records a lot of neglected repertoire-but I cannot but agree. I wonder who actually needs the Brahms symphonies played by a provincial Hungarian orchestra??
It's been well sponsored and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the orchestra. I hope it will have considerable local interest at least.
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