ASV's Beloved Clara: A True Story of Love, Passion & Tragedy is the CD issue of a program given by pianist Lucy Parham since 2002, when she presented it for the first time at Wigmore Hall; since then it has been given in concert several times and broadcast repeatedly on BBC Radio. Of the participating actors here, Martin Jarvis' voice will be ...
Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa is rightfully remembered for his many film scores -- among his best known are Quo Vadis, Ben Hur, and El Cid -- but, as this disc coupling his Cello Concerto and Sinfonia Concertante shows, he was also active as a composer for the concert hall. The Sinfonia Concertante for violin and cello was written in 1955 for ...
The resurgence of the music of British composer York Bowen began in the mid-'90s with a single Hyperion disc featuring a selection of Bowen's short piano pieces plated by Stephen Hough. Several dozen genre solo piano pieces and chamber works later, here we have arrived at concerti; namely, York Bowen: Violin Concerto -- Piano Concerto No. 1. This ...
The best way to learn exactly what these Four Tales from Beatrix Potter are, and how charming and enchanting they are, is to just put the CD in the player and listen. They are some of Potter's most popular stories set in music in a way that combines narration and musical accompaniment with original songs. From the keepsake-like packaging they ...
As Dennis Brain was the finest horn player in the United Kingdom in the '50s, so the Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble was the finest wind chamber ensemble in the United Kingdom in the '50s. Brain, of course, is well known for his recordings of Strauss and Mozart's Horn Concertos, recordings which remain the deepest, the strongest, and the most soulful ...
Among the many forgotten English composers whose surnames start with the letter B, some are more forgotten than others. For example, Arnold Bax is hardly forgotten, Granville Bantock more forgotten, Havergal Brian even more forgotten, Rutland Boughton yet more forgotten, and Edgar Bainton nearly completely forgotten. Thus, for those who follow ...
For those who love the delicate and delightful art of the British Ballet, here is a splendid new addition to the short shelf of superb recordings: a coupling of William Walton's The Wise Virgins and Constant Lambert's Horoscope with Barry Wordsworth conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra. Walton's 1940 score is essentially an orchestral adaptation ...
It's a tricky thing about twentieth century English orchestral music -- how exactly do you tell the difference between "light" music composers and "serious" music composers? If you didn't know that Julius Harrison's richly nostalgic Worcestershire Suite wasn't by Delius and his lushly bucolic Bredon Hill wasn't by Vaughan Williams, would you know ...
The music is better than you'd think and the performances are worse than you'd think. Of course, everyone knows that Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor from 1845 is the best German piano concerto in the Romantic interlude after Beethoven and before Brahms, but how many know that Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor from 1836 is one ...
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