BBC Music magazine cover CD. Malcolm Arnold guitar concerto, Villa-Lobos guitar concerto, plus transcriptions for solo guitar of pieces by Bach, Dowland, Mompou and Albeniz.
Performers : Sean Shibe guitar. BBC NOW conducted by Pablo Gonzalez ( Arnold ) and Michael Seal ( Villa-Lobos )
With my background, I still tend to associate guitar with blues, rock and folk and so struggle with classical guitar. I even struggle with jazz guitar. But this disc has good moments and is well played.
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Thursday, 17 December 2015
A French Hammerklavier
Paul Dukas : Piano sonata in E flat minor, Abel Decaux : Clairs de lune.
Performer : Marc-Andre Hamelin piano.
Some have called Dukas's piano sonata a French Hammerklavier, which it certainly is in length but also in scope and the demands it places on the pianist.
Performer : Marc-Andre Hamelin piano.
Some have called Dukas's piano sonata a French Hammerklavier, which it certainly is in length but also in scope and the demands it places on the pianist.
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Bach In Early Style
J.S.Bach : Actus Tragicus, cantatas BWV 4, 12, 106, 196.
Performers : Cantus Colln directed by Konrad Junghanel.
Both early and more mature Bach cantatas.
Performers : Cantus Colln directed by Konrad Junghanel.
Both early and more mature Bach cantatas.
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Concertos a la Mode
Prokofiev piano concertos nos 1 and 3 . Scriabin miniatures.
Performer Evgeny Kissin piano, Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado.
Prok 3 seems the young firebrands go to concerto these days and this was recorded by Kissin back when he was in the young firebrand bracket.
Performer Evgeny Kissin piano, Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado.
Prok 3 seems the young firebrands go to concerto these days and this was recorded by Kissin back when he was in the young firebrand bracket.
British Pastoral ( English and Scottish )
BBC Music magazine free cover disc.
George Butterworth : The Banks of green Willow, A Shropshire Lad Rhapsody, Two English Idylls.
Hamish MacCunn : Land of the Mountain and Flood, The Ship o' the Fiend.
Performers : BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra variously conducted by Andrew Manze, Osmo Vanska and Martyn Brabbins and BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart.
George Butterworth : The Banks of green Willow, A Shropshire Lad Rhapsody, Two English Idylls.
Hamish MacCunn : Land of the Mountain and Flood, The Ship o' the Fiend.
Performers : BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra variously conducted by Andrew Manze, Osmo Vanska and Martyn Brabbins and BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart.
Caught One More time
Van Morrison : Astral Weeks
Nothing else remotely like it really, despite numerous borrowings to be found in the work of others. Nostalgic in 1968, nostalgia that only grows with the passing years and becomes more powerful.
Nothing else remotely like it really, despite numerous borrowings to be found in the work of others. Nostalgic in 1968, nostalgia that only grows with the passing years and becomes more powerful.
Agnostic Take On Faith
Vaughan Williams : Sancta Civitas and Dona nobis pacem
Performers : London Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Choristers of St Paul's cathedral, Yvonne Kenny soprano, Bryn Terfel baritone, Philip Langridge tenor. Conducted by Richard Hickox.
Chorus master Stephen Westrop, orchestra leader Vasko Vassilev.
Similarities to VW's opera on Pilgrims Progress which was long in gestation.
Performers : London Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Choristers of St Paul's cathedral, Yvonne Kenny soprano, Bryn Terfel baritone, Philip Langridge tenor. Conducted by Richard Hickox.
Chorus master Stephen Westrop, orchestra leader Vasko Vassilev.
Similarities to VW's opera on Pilgrims Progress which was long in gestation.
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