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Elgar, Cello Concerto in E Minor
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 i. Adagio; Moderato ii. Lento; Allegro molto iii. Adagio iv. Allegro; Moderato; Allegro, ma non troppo; Poco più lento; Adagio Edward Elgar enjoys a curious reputation in his own country. To many, he is the composer of overtly nationalistic music such as Pomp and Circumstance, the musical incarnation of Edwardian imperialism. Although early works such as the Enigma Variations and Imperial March garnered him praise and fame, it is his later works from 1918-1919 that are much more autobiographical in content – none more so than the Cello Concerto in E minor. The Concerto was mostly composed between 1918 and 1919 at Brinkwells, a cottage in the Sussex woods where he wrote three other chamber works – the Violin Sonata, String Quartet and Piano Quintet. Like these other Brinkwells compositions, the Cello Concerto is a deeply introspective work which reveals much about the composer’s state of mind: an aging artist concerned about his waning popularity, his wife’s failing health, and reflecting on the horrors of the First World War. Despite a grossly under-rehearsed première at the Queen’s Hall on 27 October 1919, it has since been established as perhaps the finest cello concerto in the repertoire, alongside Dvořák’s, and the only work of Elgar’s to enjoy regular performances outside the English-speaking world. The Cello Concerto is an emotionally draining work not only for the players but also the listener, its overwhelming mood one of melancholy and autumnal world-weariness. The first movement opens with a declamatory, grandiose statement by the soloist leading, in almost improvisatory style, into a lilting melody; there is a wistfully lyrical middle section before the opening melody returns. -
String Quartet in E Minor, Op 83
String Quartet in E minor, op 83 A quartet in three movements for two violins, viola and cello: 1 - Allegro moderato; 2 - Piacevole (poco andante); 3 - Allegro molto. Approximate Length: 30 minutes First Performance: Date: 21 May 1919 Venue: Wigmore Hall, London Performed by: Albert Sammons, W H Reed - violins; Raymond Jeremy - viola; Felix Salmond - cello Dedicated to: The Brodsky Quartet Elgar composed two part-quartets in 1878 and a complete one in 1887 but these were set aside and/or destroyed. Years later, the violinist Adolf Brodsky had been urging Elgar to compose a string quartet since 1900 when, as leader of the Hallé Orchestra, he performed several of Elgar's works. Consequently, Elgar first set about composing a String Quartet in 1907 after enjoying a concert in Malvern by the Brodsky Quartet. However, he put it aside when he embarked with determination on his long-delayed First Symphony. It appears that the composer subsequently used themes intended for this earlier quartet in other works, including the symphony. When he eventually returned to the genre, it was to compose an entirely fresh work. It was after enjoying an evening of chamber music in London with Billy Reed’s quartet, just before entering hospital for a tonsillitis operation, that Elgar decided on writing the quartet, and he began it whilst convalescing, completing the first movement by the end of March 1918. He composed that first movement at his home, Severn House, in Hampstead, depressed by the war news and debilitated from his operation. By May, he could move to the peaceful surroundings of Brinkwells, the country cottage that Lady Elgar had found for them in the depth of the Sussex countryside. -
January 07, 2018
January 07, 2018: (Full-page version) Close Window “Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.” — A. A. Milne Start Buy CD Program Composer Title Performers Record Label Stock Number Barcode Time online Sleepers, 00:01 Buy Now! Poulenc Sextet for piano and winds Roge/Gallois/Bourgue/Portal/Wallez/Cazalet London 421 581 028942158122 Awake! 00:20 Buy Now! Tchaikovsky Elegie ~ Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48 Moscow Virtuosi/Spivakov RCA 61964 090266196425 00:31 Buy Now! Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Emerson String Quartet DG 445 551 028944555127 01:00 Buy Now! Fauré Pavane, Op. 50 Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy Sony Classical 62644 074646264423 01:08 Buy Now! Schubert Symphony No. 6 in C, D. 589 Cologne Radio Symphony/Wand EMI 47875 077774787529 01:42 Buy Now! Wagner Prelude to Act 1 & Love-Death ~ Tristan & Isolde NY Philhamonic/Boulez Sony 64108 074646410820 Andante and Rondo for 2 Flutes and Piano, Op. 01:59 Buy Now! Doppler Rampal/Arimany/Ritter Delos 3212 013491321226 25 02:09 Buy Now! Bach I call to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, BWV 639 Ma/Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Koopman Sony 60680 074646068021 02:13 Buy Now! Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 "Pastoral" Philharmonia Orchestra/Ashkenazy Decca 410 003 028941000323 03:01 Buy Now! Haydn Horn Concerto No. 1 in D Baumann/Academy SMF/Brown Philips 422 346 028942234628 03:18 Buy Now! Rossini Overture ~ William Tell Vienna Philharmonic/Sargent Seraphim/EMI 69137 724356913721 03:32 Buy Now! Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor, Op. -
Sunday Playlist
November 25, 2018: (Full-page version) Close Window “I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.” — Johann Sebastian Bach Start Buy CD Program Composer Title Performers Record Label Stock Number Barcode Time online Sleepers, Watkinson/King's Chamber 00:01 Buy Now! Handel Ombra mai fu ~ Serse (Xerxes) Sony Classical 89370 696998937024 Awake! Orchestra/Malgoire 00:05 Buy Now! Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat, Op. 31 No. 3 "Hunt" Wilhelm Kempff DG 429 306 n/a 00:27 Buy Now! Hanson Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 21 "Nordic" Nashville Symphony/Schermerhorn Naxos 8.559072 636943907221 01:01 Buy Now! Gershwin Lullaby for String Quartet Manhattan String Quartet Newport Classics 60033 N/A 01:09 Buy Now! Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1046 Il Giardino Armonico/Antonini Teldec 6019 745099844226 01:29 Buy Now! Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 Luca/Saint Louis Symphony/Slatkin Nonesuch 79052 07559790522 02:00 Buy Now! Duffy Three Jewish Portraits Milwaukee Symphony/Macal Koss Classics 1022 021299710388 String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 "Death and the 02:11 Buy Now! Schubert Amadeus Quartet DG 410 024 028941002426 Maiden" 02:51 Buy Now! Gottschalk The Dying Poet Robert Silverman Marquis Classics 161 774718116123 03:00 Buy Now! Schumann String Quartet in A, Op. 41 No. 3 St. Lawrence String Quartet EMI 56797 724355679727 03:33 Buy Now! Foote Second Suite for Piano, Op. 30 Virginia Eskin Northeastern 223 n/a 03:47 Buy Now! Still Miniatures Powers Woodwind Quintet White Pine Music 215 700261334110 Suzuki/Orlovsky/Indianapolis 03:59 Buy Now! Canning Fantasy on a Hymn by Justin Morgan Decca 458 157 028945845725 SO/Leppard 04:11 Buy Now! Telemann Trumpet Concerto No. -
Tertis's Viola Version of Elgar's Cello Concerto by Anthony Addison Special to Clevelandclassical
Preview Heights Chamber Orchestra conductor's notes: Tertis's viola version of Elgar's Cello Concerto by Anthony Addison Special to ClevelandClassical An old adage suggested that violists were merely vio- linists-in-decline. That was before Lionel Tertis! He was born in 1876 of musical parents who had come to England from Poland and Russia and, at three years old, he started playing the piano. At six he performed in public, but had to be locked in a room to make him practice, a procedure that has actually fostered many an international virtuoso. At thirteen, with the agree- ment of his parents, he left home to earn his living in music playing in pickup groups at summer resorts, accompanying a violinist, and acting as music attendant at a lunatic asylum. +41:J:-:/1?<1>95@@1041?@A0510-@(>5:5@E;88131;2!A?5/@-75:3B5;85:-?45? "second study," but concentrating on the piano and playing concertos with the school or- chestra. As sometime happens, his violin teacher showed little interest in a second study <A<58-:01B1:@;8045?2-@41>@4-@41C-?.1@@1>J@@102;>@413>;/1>E@>-01 +5@4?A/4 encouragement, Tertis decided he had to teach himself. Fate intervened when fellow stu- dents wanted to form a string quartet. Tertis volunteered to play viola, borrowed an in- strument, loved the rich quality of its lowest string and thereafter turned the old adage up- side down: a not very obviously gifted violinist becoming a world class violist. But, until the viola attained respectability in Tertis’s hands, composers were reluctant to write for the instrument. -
The Elgar Sketch-Books
THE ELGAR SKETCH-BOOKS PAMELA WILLETTS A MAJOR gift from Mrs H. S. Wohlfeld of sketch-books and other manuscripts of Sir Edward Elgar was received by the British Library in 1984. The sketch-books consist of five early books dating from 1878 to 1882, a small book from the late 1880s, a series of eight volumes made to Elgar's instructions in 1901, and two later books commenced in Italy in 1909.^ The collection is now numbered Add. MSS. 63146-63166 (see Appendix). The five early sketch-books are oblong books in brown paper covers. They were apparently home-made from double sheets of music-paper, probably obtained from the stock of the Elgar shop at 10 High Street, Worcester. The paper was sewn together by whatever means was at hand; volume III is held together by a gut violin string. The covers were made by the expedient of sticking brown paper of varying shades and textures to the first and last leaves of music-paper and over the spine. Book V is of slightly smaller oblong format and the sides of the music sheets in this volume have been inexpertly trimmed. The volumes bear Elgar's numbering T to 'V on the covers, his signature, and a date, perhaps that ofthe first entry in the volumes. The respective dates are: 21 May 1878(1), 13 August 1878 (II), I October 1878 (III), 7 April 1879 (IV), and i September 1881 (V). Elgar was not quite twenty-one when the first of these books was dated. Earlier music manuscripts from his hand have survived but the particular interest of these early sketch- books is in their intimate connection with the round of Elgar's musical activities, amateur and professional, at a formative stage in his career. -
Musicweb International August 2020 RETROSPECTIVE SUMMER 2020
RETROSPECTIVE SUMMER 2020 By Brian Wilson The decision to axe the ‘Second Thoughts and Short Reviews’ feature left me with a vast array of part- written reviews, left unfinished after a colleague had got their thoughts online first, with not enough hours in the day to recast a full review in each case. This is an attempt to catch up. Even if in almost every case I find myself largely in agreement with the original review, a brief reminder of something you may have missed, with a slightly different slant, may be useful – and, occasionally, I may be raising a dissenting voice. Index [with page numbers] Malcolm ARNOLD Concerto for Organ and Orchestra – see Arthur BUTTERWORTH Johann Sebastian BACH Concertos for Harpsichord and Strings – Volume 1_BIS [2] Johann Sebastian BACH, Georg Philipp TELEMANN, Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH The Father, the Son and the Godfather_BIS [2] Sir Arnold BAX Morning Song ‘Maytime in Sussex’ – see RUBBRA Amy BEACH Piano Quintet (with ELGAR Piano Quintet)_Hyperion [9] Sir Arthur BLISS Piano Concerto in B-flat – see RUBBRA Benjamin BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, etc._Alto_Regis [15, 16] Arthur BUTTERWORTH Symphony No.1 (with Ruth GIPPS Symphony No.2, Malcolm ARNOLD Concerto for Organ and Orchestra)_Musical Concepts [16] Paul CORFIELD GODFREY Beren and Lúthien: Epic Scenes from the Silmarillion - Part Two_Prima Facie [17] Sir Edward ELGAR Symphony No.2_Decca [7] - Sea Pictures; Falstaff_Decca [6] - Falstaff; Cockaigne_Sony [7] - Sea Pictures; Alassio_Sony [7] - Violin Sonata (with Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Sonata; The Lark Ascending)_Chandos [9] - Piano Quintet – see Amy BEACH Gerald FINZI Concerto for Clarinet and Strings – see VAUGHAN WILLIAMS [10] Ruth GIPPS Symphony No.2 – see Arthur BUTTERWORTH Alan GRAY Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in f minor – see STANFORD Modest MUSSORGSKY Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. -
Sat, Jun 19, 2021 - 00 the Classical Station, WCPE 1 Start Runs Composer Title Performerslib # Label Cat
Sat, Jun 19, 2021 - 00 The Classical Station, WCPE 1 Start Runs Composer Title PerformersLIb # Label Cat. # Barcode 00:01:30 10:30 Borodin Overture to Prince Igor Suisse Romande 06999 London 430 219 028943021920 Orchestra/Ansermet 00:13:0012:48 Chopin Polonaise Fantasy in A flat, Op. Claudio Arrau 00246 Philips 412 610 028941261021 61 00:26:48 33:08 Harty Violin Concerto in D minor Holmes/Ulster 00736 Chandos 8386 n/a Orchestra/Thomson 01:01:2611:55 Holst A Hampshire Suite, Op. 28 No. Munich 06405 Classico 284 570964498641 2 Symphony/Bostock 5 01:14:21 03:31 Anonymous Three Settings of Ronn McFarlane 02637 Dorian 90186 053479018625 Greensleeves 01:18:5240:19 Dvorak Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. Kubalek/Lafayette 03577 Dorian 90221 053479022127 81 String Quartet 02:00:41 09:27 Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, Op. Cincinnati Pops/Kunzel 06108 Telarc 80595 089408059520 9 02:11:0827:20 Mozart Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. Galway/Lucerne 01257 RCA Victor 6723 07863567232 313 Festival Strings/Baumgartner 02:39:2819:00 Telemann Suite in G minor La Stravaganza 01886 Denon 9398 081757939829 02:59:58 15:35 Stamitz, J. Trumpet Concerto in D Hardenberger/Academ 00883 Philips 420 203 028942020320 y SMF/Marriner 03:16:3310:20 Khachaturian Adagio of Spartacus and Royal 00226 EMI 47348 077774734820 Phrygia (Love Theme) from Philharmonic/Temirkan Spartacus ov 03:27:5330:50 Schumann Fantasy in C, Op. 17 Maurizio Pollini 09743 DG 429 372 028942937222 04:00:13 07:33 Verdi Overture to La forza del destino La Scala 03534 Sony 68468 074646846827 (The Force of Destiny) Philharmonic/Muti 04:08:4611:07 Bach, C.P.E. -
British Roots
Thursday 12 December 2019 7.30–9.30pm Barbican LSO SEASON CONCERT BRITISH ROOTS Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra Elgar Sea Pictures Interval PAPPANO Vaughan Williams Symphony No 4 Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Supported by LSO Friends Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 6pm Barbican LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet Howells Rhapsodic Quintet Portorius Quartet Welcome News On Our Blog Thank you to our media partners: BBC Radio 3, LSO STRING EXPERIENCE SCHEME BELA BARTÓK AND who broadcast the performance live, and THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN Classic FM, who have recommended the We are delighted to appoint 14 players to concert to their listeners. We also extend this year’s LSO String Experience cohort. Against a turbulent political background, sincere thanks to the LSO Friends for their Since 1992, the scheme has been enabling Bartók wrote his pantomime-ballet The important support of this concert; we are young string players from London’s music Miraculous Mandarin, which a German delighted to have so many Friends and conservatoires to gain experience playing in music journal reported caused ‘waves of supporters in the audience tonight. rehearsals and concerts with the LSO. They moral outrage’ to ‘engulf the city’ when it will join the Orchestra on stage for concerts premiered in Cologne. Ahead of tonight’s performance, the in the New Year. Guildhall School’s Portorius Quartet gave elcome to this evening’s LSO a recital of music by Vaughan Williams WHAT’S NEXT FOR OUR 2018/19 concert at the Barbican. It is a and Howells on the Barbican stage. -
Season 2012-2013
27 Season 2012-2013 Thursday, December 13, at 8:00 The Philadelphia Orchestra Friday, December 14, at 8:00 Saturday, December 15, Gianandrea Noseda Conductor at 8:00 Alisa Weilerstein Cello Borodin Overture to Prince Igor Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 I. Adagio—Moderato— II. Lento—Allegro molto III. Adagio IV. Allegro—Moderato—[Cadenza]—Allegro, ma non troppo—Poco più lento—Adagio—Allegro molto Intermission Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29 (“Polish”) I. Introduzione ed allegro: Moderato assai (tempo di marcia funebre)—Allegro brillante II. Alla tedesca: Allegro moderato e semplice III. Andante elegiaco IV. Scherzo: Allegro vivo V. Finale: Allegro con fuoco (tempo di polacca) This program runs approximately 1 hour, 55 minutes. The December 14 concert is sponsored by Medcomp. 228 Story Title The Philadelphia Orchestra Jessica Griffin Renowned for its distinctive vivid world of opera and Orchestra boasts a new sound, beloved for its choral music. partnership with the keen ability to capture the National Centre for the Philadelphia is home and hearts and imaginations Performing Arts in Beijing. the Orchestra nurtures of audiences, and admired The Orchestra annually an important relationship for an unrivaled legacy of performs at Carnegie Hall not only with patrons who “firsts” in music-making, and the Kennedy Center support the main season The Philadelphia Orchestra while also enjoying a at the Kimmel Center for is one of the preeminent three-week residency in the Performing Arts but orchestras in the world. Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and also those who enjoy the a strong partnership with The Philadelphia Orchestra’s other area the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Orchestra has cultivated performances at the Mann Festival. -
Variations Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture Friday, January 24, 2014 at 8 Pm Paramount Theatre, Oakland Dmitri Kabalevsky Cello Concerto No
THE GRUBB CO . PRESENTS ENIGMA variations PETER ILYICH TCHAikOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture FRidAY, JANUARY 24, 2014 AT 8 PM PARAMOUNT THEATRE, OAKLAND DmiTRI KABALEVSKY Cello Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 77 I. Molto sostenuto–Allegro molto e energico II. Presto marcato III. Andante con moto–Allegro David Requiro, Cello INTERMISSION CONRAD SUSA The Blue Hour EDWARD ELGAR Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 (Enigma) Theme: Andante I. L’istesso tempo “C.A.E.” II. Allegro “H.D.S-P.” III. Allegretto “R.B.T.” IV. Allegro di molto “W.M.B.” V. Moderato “R.P.A.” VI. Andantino “Ysobel” VII. Presto “Troyte” VIII. Allegretto “W.N.” IX. Adagio “Nimrod” X. Intermezzo: Allegretto “Dorabella” XI. Allegro di molto “G.R.S.” XII. Andante “B.G.N.” XIII. Romanza: Moderato “* * *” XIV. Finale: Allegro–Presto “E.D.U.” MICHAEL MoRGAN, Season Media Sponsors: Oakland Magazine, Oakland Tribune, East Bay Express, KDFC Music Director and Season Guest Artist Accommodation provided by: Oakland Marriott City Center The 2013-2014 season is supported by grants from the California Arts Council, Conductor The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program BRYAN NIES, Assistant Conductor OAKLAND EAST BAY SYMPHONY XIII OAKLAND EAST BAY SYMPHONY GUEST ARTIST FIRST VIOLIN BASS TRUMPET Mr. Requiro has soloed with the Tokyo Philharmonic, Dawn Harms, Patrick McCarthy, William Harvey, National Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Concertmaster Principal Principal and with numerous orchestras across North Vivian Warkentin, Carl Stanley, Leonard Ott America. His Carnegie Hall debut recital at Weill Asst. -
Much to Look Forward To
Journal of the No.18 June 2000 EDITOR Stephen Connock RVW (see address below) Society In this issue... Much to look forward to... Vaughan Williams and Bach The RVW Society is involved in a Members will also be delighted to learn number of important and exciting that Sir John in Love will be performed G R.V.W. & J.S.B. projects, some of which will come to in Newcastle City Hall by the Northern fruition quickly and others will take Sinfonia under Richard Hickox on by Michael Kennedy place in the 2002-2003 season. Of the September 29th 2000 as part of the Page 4 greatest interest to RVW Society preparation for the recording. There is members is the major Festival of such marvellous, heart warming music symphonies and choral works being in this opera that all members are urged G Lewis Foreman reviews VW planned under the title Toward the to get to Newcastle, somehow, for the conducting the St. Matthew Unknown Region. concert performance on 29th September. Passion. Page 7 Toward the Unknown Region Charterhouse Symposium G This Festival will be conducted by Following the success of the Conference VW and ‘the greatest of all Richard Hickox using his new orchestra Vaughan Williams in a New Century at composers’ the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. the British Library last November, Robin by Timothy Day Eight concerts are being planned for Wells of Charterhouse and Byron Adams Wales and there are likely to be four of the University of California have Page 10 concerts in London. The Festival begins jointly planned a superb series of at the end of 2002 and many rare choral lectures, concerts and other events at works will be programmed alongside all Charterhouse School from 23rd to 29th Postscripts on George the nine symphonies.