DOCSLIB.ORG

Autumn 2008 No. 149 £1.75 NEW RELEASES

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Autumn 2008 No. 149 £1.75 NEW RELEASES Bulletin Autumn 2008 No. 149 £1.75 NEW RELEASES www.hyperion-records.co.uk BRITTEN PIANO CONCERTO CLEMENTI DIVERSIONS / YOUNG APOLLO THE COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS The three compositions which comprise VOLUME 2 Britten’s music for solo piano and This is the second volume in a complete orchestra constitute a unique, yet still little chronological survey of the Clementi explored, part of his output. Here they are sonatas. After the somewhat frivolous brought together in a stunning disc that delights of Volume 1, Volume 2 displays pays tribute to the great artistry of all Clementi in more serious and weighty involved. form. The selection recorded here is of STEVEN OSBORNE pieces that begin to reveal depths of BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA expression seldom encountered in the ILAN VOLKOV composer’s earlier music. CDA67625 CDA67717 HOWARD SHELLEY SCHUMANN DICHTERLIEBE MARTINUO & OTHER HEINE SETTINGS THE COMPLETE MUSIC FOR VIOLIN AND Why another Dichterliebe recording? ORCHESTRA VOLUME 4 Because Gerald Finley has simply one This is the fourth volume in Hyperion’s set of the greatest voices of his generation, of the complete works for violin and and is an artist at the peak of his powers. orchestra by Martinuo , featuring the He brings to this noble cycle the supreme wonderful Bohuslav Matoušek. Many first musical understanding that characterizes recordings are included in the series, as all his performances. This is his fourth well as works totally unperformed outside disc with collaborator Julius Drake, and the Czech Republic. the partnership has proved to be a BOHUSLAV MATOUŠEK uniquely rewarding one. CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA GERALD FINLEY / JULIUS DRAKE CDA67676 CDA67674 CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD MORALES MAGNIFICAT THE STUDY OF LOVE FRENCH SONGS MOTETS & LAMENTATIONS AND MOTETS OF THE 14TH CENTURY Morales was the first Spanish composer ‘A wonderful addition to the catalogue, to achieve true international fame, and was and the recorded sound … is superlative’ described by contemporaries as ‘the light (Gramophone) of Spain in music’. The longest work on ‘A simply superb CD … a recording this disc is Morales’s Magnificat primi which you might use to snare those as toni. This is the first recording of any of yet unconverted and resistant to the Morales’s Magnificats to present the entire beauties of the Gothic’ (Fanfare, USA) work as the composer originally intended. GOTHIC VOICES THE BRABANT ENSEMBLE CHRISTOPHER PAGE STEPHEN RICE CDA67694 CDH55295 PORPORA CANTATAS FOR SOPRANO MOZART Porpora is best known for his open rivalry EPISTLE SONATAS with Handel on the London operatic scene. ‘Not to be missed. But this dazzling new disc from Auser Buy it at once!’ Musici shows the composer to be a (Musical Opinion) profound musician with a rich and wide- ‘An hour’s delightful listening. ranging output, a mastery of compositional Warmly recommended’ (CD Review) technique and a keen sense of theatre and ‘Cannot fail to delight’ dramatic pacing. Stylishly performed and (BBC Music Magazine) recorded, this disc will surely force a THE KING’S CONSORT reappraisal of Porpora’s artistry and ROBERT KING reawaken interest in this great composer. ELENA CECCHI FEDI / AUSER MUSICI CDA67621 CDH55314 PAWEL/ /LUKASZEWSKI CHORAL MUSIC CORELLI LA FOLIA This latest disc from Trinity showcases the ‘The most persuasive talent of this marvellous young choir in a account of Corelli on disc’ disc of seductively beautiful spiritual music (The Rough Guide 100 from Poland. Pawel/ L/ ukaszewski is the Essential CDs) most outstanding of the younger generation ‘Highly enjoyable’ (Gramophone) of Polish composers specializing in sacred ‘Excellent performances from all choral music. Conductor Stephen Layton concerned, and recording quality to match’ is one of L/ ukaszewski’s most enthusiastic (Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) proponents. He communicates this deep THE PURCELL QUARTET understanding of L/ ukaszewski’s music to his young singers, coaxing from them a committed and potent performance. CDA67639 CDH55240 THE CHOIR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE / STEPHEN LAYTON FRMS BULLETIN Autumn 2008 No. 149 CONTENTS Editor Thelma Shaw EDITORIAL Page 15 Cann’s Lane Division of labour or, many hands make light work 2 Hethersett OUT & ABOUT Norwich NR9 3JE Federation Tel: 01603 812996 Daventry Music Weekend a Sellout 3 Regional Groups Editorial copy If your copy is in manuscript form Yorkshire Region’s Music Weekend at Scarborough 9 or on CD or floppy disc, send it West Middlesex Group’s Festival of British Music 12 direct to the Editor at the above Societies address. Rachmaninov revealed at Goudhurst 12 If your copy is available as an Kettering & District Jubilee 12 email attachment send it to: Rare presentation at Radlett 13 [email protected] Ickenham Gramophone Club celebrate 60 years 13 Editorial deadlines Epsom RMS recognises Secretary’s long service 14 st President of Horsham 90 years young 14 Spring issue: 31 December Autumn issue: 30th June REVIEWS New, nostalgic & historical from Dutton Advertising Music by Budd, Chagrin, Carr, Sutherland and Addinsell Advertisements are available from British Light Music Premières – Vol. 5 15 £35. For information on rates and Fire Island –Music for Flute 15 discounts contact the Editor or the Billy Mayerl – a miscellany for solo piano 16 Advertising Manager: New releases on Historical label 16 [email protected] Wyastone produce Hallé and unearth treasure (full address inside back cover) Elgar: Symph. no.2; Intro and Allegro for Strings (Hallé label) 17 Albert Herring conducted by Britten (Nimbus label) 17 Circulation If you would like your own copy of Naxos presents world première of Alan Hovhaness Bulletin sent direct, contact the Fanfare for the new Atlantis; Guitar Concert no.2; Distribution Manager Symphony no.3; 18 [email protected] Variety from Hyperion (full address inside back cover) Handel opera arias; Lionel Monckton’s songs from the shows Copies are distributed to all In a state of jazz, piano music played by Marc-André 18 affiliated societies and to the For your bookshelf Federation’s Associates, with a The Making of Music: James Naughtie 19 total estimated membership in the Questions of Music: Norman Edwards 19 region of 10,000. SPECIAL FEATURES NB Copyright. The material A Tribute to Michael Smith by Roderick Shaw 21 content of Bulletin may not be Evelyn Barbirolli, a personal memoir by Lyndon Jenkins 22 reproduced elsewhere without the Handel and the Divas 23 formal permission of the NEWS & VIEWS publishers, The Federation of From the Chairman’s desk 24 Recorded Music Societies Ltd. What’s in the Secretary’s postbag? 25 Printed by: The Max Kettlestring Lane Clifton Moor Front cover: G. F. Handel Please note that the address York YO30 4XF The Royal Collection of the FRMS website is 2008 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II www.thefrms.co.uk ISSN 0928150 1 EDITORIAL Division of labour - or many hands make light work pleasant faint buzz of je ne Chairman and Vice- sais quoi when it gets to Chairman work as a team Saturday. But not today! but in other cases, for The Bulletin is finished, just instance the office of about ready to go to print – programme secretary, one except for my editorial! person has responsibility for Usually, there is always finding and liaising with something I want to say, or speakers to cover the whole some pertinent bee buzzing year – quite a task. It might This heading refers to some around, trying to get out of be worth considering how to words that you will find on my bonnet and onto paper. divide this responsibility p.27, and which I’ll get But not this time. That is between several people, each round to in due course. until, in the small hours of one responsible for this morning, I remembered providing speakers for, say, I wonder how many of you those words on p.27. four or even fewer meetings. remember a broadcast on the BBC Light Programme from Among the great number of Or how about trying a single days of yore, when we were Societies that I have visited, ‘brainstorming’ meeting at very young and carefree? It or with which I have contact, the beginning of the year was Record Roundup, there is a small handful when every member could compèred by a very cheerful battling from a lack of make suggestions and a Jack Jackson late on Friday people ready to take office. consensus reached as to how nights. As Big Ben struck This means that the burden the task could be allotted. midnight he would say: of running the Society falls It is possible to make many “Oh boy! It’s Saturday!” continually on the same few variations on this theme of This signalled the start of the people (or, in a couple of division of labour. If weekend, time to slow down cases, even one person). adopted, a job-sharing and forget the weekly There are all kinds of scheme could revitalise a treadmill, deadlines and reasons for this sometimes flagging Society. general hurly burly that almost insoluble problem, In this way, harking back to came with the daily routine but it occurred to me that it p.27, Everybody would play of work, whatever that might might be worth trying to a part, Nobody would have be, and generally a time to have more than one person too daunting a job and poor do one’s own thing. sharing the duties of an old Muggins, whoever that Even after years of officer. might be, would be able to ‘retirement’ I still get a It usually happens that the relax a bit more! Thelma Shaw Important events before Christmas! 25 October: FRMS 72nd AGM hosted by Bristol Music Club. Details on page 26 15 November: FRMS Central Region AUTUMN MUSIC DAY. Details on page 27 21 – 23 November: Friends of Torbay MUSIC WEEKEND.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Signumclassics
    126booklet 13/5/08 11:28 Page 1 ALSO AVAILABLE ON signumclassics Ragtime & Blue Brahms and Schumann Haydn Piano Sonatas Elena Kats-Chernin - Piano John Lill - Piano John Lill - Piano SIGCD058 SIGCD075 SIGCD097 Elena Kats-Chernin is a composer who Much-loved pianist, John Lill, plays John Lill returns to take the listener on a defies categorisation: a virtuosic pianist touchstones of the 19th-century romantic journey through the many moods of Haydn, and improviser, her compositions flow piano tradition. Lill is at his sparkling in brilliant performances of some from her like a fountain. This CD is best in this wonderful repertoire. composer’s most intriguing works for drawn from the small works she often the keyboard. writes for her own enjoyment - a cornucopia of rags, blues and heart- melting melodies. Available through most record stores and at www.signumrecords.com For more information call +44 (0) 20 8997 4000 126booklet 13/5/08 11:28 Page 3 MESSIAEN: CHAMBER WORKS MESSIAEN: CHAMBER WORKS The general perception of Messiaen is of a always turned up at class with mountains of work 1. Fantaisie [8.59] composer who lived in some rarefied atmosphere (not guaranteed to ensure popularity!) and was of his own, floating far above the mundane, recognised as a young man likely to succeed. But Quatuor pour la fin du Temps material world. Given his preoccupation with any view of Messiaen as vague or indecisive in his 2. Liturgie de cristal [2.37] esoteric rhythms, sound-colours, theology and opinions needs to be set against the truth - for all birdsong, this is perhaps a reasonable judgment his pacific demeanour (and, in later years, 3.
    [Show full text]
  • Di Xiao Piano
    Di’s international career started at 17 when she played Chengzong Di Xiao Yin’s Yellow River Piano Concerto in Kuala Lumpur and Penang for the Malaysian Royal Family. Piano Subsequently Di has been invited to perform as a soloist in many Described as “a pianist of countries including Malaysia, Ukraine, Singapore, India, China awesome gifts” and compared to and the UK. In the UK, her concert Clara Schumann by the critics, performances have received much Chinese pianist Di Xiao concluded a acclaim. Her debut at Symphony major international recital tour in Hall Birmingham in 2006 was 2009 representing the UK as part of described by the UK Chinese Times the universally acclaimed 'Rising as “A stunning concert!” and an Stars' series. The tour included sell early performance of the Schumann out concerts at the Concertgebouw Concerto prompted The Birmingham Amsterdam, Vienna Konzerthaus, Post to say “In her graceful, dancing Salzburg Mozartium, Stockholm finale it was easy to imagine Clara Konserthaus and Luxembourg Schumann at the keyboard.” Di has Philharmonie. Following her Köln appeared in a number of important Philharmoie recital, played to an Career Highlights music festivals including Breman audience of over 1000, the press Musikfest (Germany), New • Performed “Yellow River stated that “Di Xiao presents a Generation Arts Festival (UK), Concerto” for Malaysian demanding programme that takes Buxton Arts Festival (UK) and Royal Family at Kuala your breath away.” As the tour Leamington Music Festival (UK). In Lumpur aged 17. progressed she went on to thrill October 2010 Di conducted a tour of audiences at Symphony Hall and China during which she played for • Birmingham Symphony Town Hall Birmingham, Brussels the enormous inaugural Classical Hall Debut, 2006.
    [Show full text]
  • A Culture of Recording: Christopher Raeburn and the Decca Record Company
    A Culture of Recording: Christopher Raeburn and the Decca Record Company Sally Elizabeth Drew A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of Music This work was supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council September 2018 1 2 Abstract This thesis examines the working culture of the Decca Record Company, and how group interaction and individual agency have made an impact on the production of music recordings. Founded in London in 1929, Decca built a global reputation as a pioneer of sound recording with access to the world’s leading musicians. With its roots in manufacturing and experimental wartime engineering, the company developed a peerless classical music catalogue that showcased technological innovation alongside artistic accomplishment. This investigation focuses specifically on the contribution of the recording producer at Decca in creating this legacy, as can be illustrated by the career of Christopher Raeburn, the company’s most prolific producer and specialist in opera and vocal repertoire. It is the first study to examine Raeburn’s archive, and is supported with unpublished memoirs, private papers and recorded interviews with colleagues, collaborators and artists. Using these sources, the thesis considers the history and functions of the staff producer within Decca’s wider operational structure in parallel with the personal aspirations of the individual in exerting control, choice and authority on the process and product of recording. Having been recruited to Decca by John Culshaw in 1957, Raeburn’s fifty-year career spanned seminal moments of the company’s artistic and commercial lifecycle: from assisting in exploiting the dramatic potential of stereo technology in Culshaw’s Ring during the 1960s to his serving as audio producer for the 1990 The Three Tenors Concert international phenomenon.
    [Show full text]
  • Marie Collier: a Life
    Marie Collier: a life Kim Kemmis A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History The University of Sydney 2018 Figure 1. Publicity photo: the housewife diva, 3 July 1965 (Alamy) i Abstract The Australian soprano Marie Collier (1927-1971) is generally remembered for two things: for her performance of the title role in Puccini’s Tosca, especially when she replaced the controversial singer Maria Callas at late notice in 1965; and her tragic death in a fall from a window at the age of forty-four. The focus on Tosca, and the mythology that has grown around the manner of her death, have obscured Collier’s considerable achievements. She sang traditional repertoire with great success in the major opera houses of Europe, North and South America and Australia, and became celebrated for her pioneering performances of twentieth-century works now regularly performed alongside the traditional canon. Collier’s experiences reveal much about post-World War II Australian identity and cultural values, about the ways in which the making of opera changed throughout the world in the 1950s and 1960s, and how women negotiated their changing status and prospects through that period. She exercised her profession in an era when the opera industry became globalised, creating and controlling an image of herself as the ‘housewife-diva’, maintaining her identity as an Australian artist on the international scene, and developing a successful career at the highest level of her artform while creating a fulfilling home life. This study considers the circumstances and mythology of Marie Collier’s death, but more importantly shows her as a woman of the mid-twentieth century navigating the professional and personal spheres to achieve her vision of a life that included art, work and family.
    [Show full text]
  • The Inspiration Behind Compositions for Clarinetist Frederick Thurston
    THE INSPIRATION BEHIND COMPOSITIONS FOR CLARINETIST FREDERICK THURSTON Aileen Marie Razey, B.M., M.M. Dissertation Prepared for the Degree of DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS August 201 8 APPROVED: Kimberly Cole Luevano, Major Professor Warren Henry, Committee Member John Scott, Committee Member John Holt, Chair of the Division of Instrumental Studies Benjamin Brand, Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Music John Richmond, Dean of the College of Music Victor Prybutok, Dean of the Toulouse Graduate School Razey, Aileen Marie. The Inspiration behind Compositions for Clarinetist Frederick Thurston. Doctor of Musical Arts (Performance), August 2018, 86 pp., references, 51 titles. Frederick Thurston was a prominent British clarinet performer and teacher in the first half of the 20th century. Due to the brevity of his life and the impact of two world wars, Thurston’s legacy is often overlooked among clarinetists in the United States. Thurston’s playing inspired 19 composers to write 22 solo and chamber works for him, none of which he personally commissioned. The purpose of this document is to provide a comprehensive biography of Thurston’s career as clarinet performer and teacher with a complete bibliography of compositions written for him. With biographical knowledge and access to the few extant recordings of Thurston’s playing, clarinetists may gain a fuller understanding of Thurston’s ideal clarinet sound and musical ideas. These resources are necessary in order to recognize the qualities about his playing that inspired composers to write for him and to perform these works with the composers’ inspiration in mind. Despite the vast list of works written for and dedicated to Thurston, clarinet players in the United States are not familiar with many of these works, and available resources do not include a complete listing.
    [Show full text]
  • Copyright and Use of This Thesis This Thesis Must Be Used in Accordance with the Provisions of the Copyright Act 1968
    COPYRIGHT AND USE OF THIS THESIS This thesis must be used in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. Reproduction of material protected by copyright may be an infringement of copyright and copyright owners may be entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. Section 51 (2) of the Copyright Act permits an authorized officer of a university library or archives to provide a copy (by communication or otherwise) of an unpublished thesis kept in the library or archives, to a person who satisfies the authorized officer that he or she requires the reproduction for the purposes of research or study. The Copyright Act grants the creator of a work a number of moral rights, specifically the right of attribution, the right against false attribution and the right of integrity. You may infringe the author’s moral rights if you: - fail to acknowledge the author of this thesis if you quote sections from the work - attribute this thesis to another author - subject this thesis to derogatory treatment which may prejudice the author’s reputation For further information contact the University’s Director of Copyright Services sydney.edu.au/copyright ALFRED HILL’S VIOLA CONCERTO: ANALYSIS, COMPOSITIONAL STYLE AND PERFORMANCE AESTHETIC Charlotte Fetherston A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, NSW 2014 STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY ‘I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge it contains no materials previously published or written by another person, or substantial proportions of material which have been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music or any other educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis.
    [Show full text]
  • RCM International Student Guide.Pdf
    INTERNATIONAL STUDENT GUIDE TOP WITH MORE THAN CONSERVATOIRE FOR 800 PERFORMING ARTS STUDENTS IN THE UK, SECOND IN FROM MORE THAN EUROPE AND JOINT THIRD IN THE WORLD QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2016 60 COUNTRIES THE RCM IS AN INTERNATIONAL LOCATED OPPOSITE THE COMMUNITY ROYAL IN THE HEART OF LONDON ALBERT HALL HOME TO THE ANNUAL TOP UK SPECIALIST INSTITUTION BBC PROMS FESTIVAL FOR MUSIC COMPLETE UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2017 100% OF SURVEY RESPONDENTS IN OVER OF EMPLOYMENT OR 40% FURTHER STUDY STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM SIX MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION FOR SCHOLARSHIPS THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS HIGHER EDUCATION STATISTICS AGENCY SURVEY CONCERTS AND MASTERCLASSES TOP LONDON WATCHED IN CONSERVATOIRE COUNTRIES FOR WORLD-LEADING WORLDWIDE IN 2014 75 RESEARCH VIA THE RCM’s RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK YOUTUBE CHANNEL 2 ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / WWW.RCM.AC.UK WELCOME The Royal College of Music is one of the world’s greatest conservatoires, training gifted musicians from all over the globe for a range of international careers as performers, conductors and composers. We were proud to be ranked the top conservatoire for performing arts in the UK, second in Europe and joint third in the world in the 2016 QS World University Rankings. The RCM provides a huge Founded in 1882 by the future King Edward VII, number of performance the RCM has trained some of the most important opportunities for its students. figures in British and international music life. We hold more than 500 Situated opposite the Royal Albert Hall, our events a year in our building and location are the envy of the world.
    [Show full text]
  • Monday Playlist
    June 24, 2019: (Full-page version) Close Window “I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings” — WA Mozart Start Buy CD Program Composer Title Performers Record Label Stock Number Barcode Time online Sleepers, Awake! 00:01 Buy Now! Saint-Saëns Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28 Perlman/Paris Orchestra/Martinon EMI 47725 077774772525 Fournier/Lucerne Festival 00:11 Buy Now! Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C DG 289 469 148 028946914823 Strings/Baumgartner 00:37 Buy Now! Glazunov The Sea (Orchestral Fantasy in E), Op. 28 Moscow Symphony/Golovschin Naxos 8.553512 730099451222 01:00 Buy Now! Mozart Overture ~ La Finta Semplice, K. 46a Calgary Philharmonic/Bernardi CBC 5149 059582514924 Nimbus 01:08 Buy Now! Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36 John Lill 5348 083603534820 Records 01:36 Buy Now! Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93 Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman Arte Nova 56341 743215634126 02:01 Buy Now! Schumann Manfred Overture, Op. 115 Cleveland Orchestra/Szell Sony Classical 62349 074646234921 02:13 Buy Now! Rubbra Symphony No. 2, Op. 45 BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Hickox Chandos 9481 095115948125 Colpron/Kraemer/Les Boréades de 02:48 Buy Now! Telemann Concerto in E minor for flute, violin and strings ATMA ACD 2 2193 722056219327 Montréal 02:59 Buy Now! Delibes Swanilda’s Waltz ~ Coppelia Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan DG 423 215 028942321526 03:04 Buy Now! Mozart Twelve Variations in C, K. 179 Ingrid Haebler Philips 422 726 028942251823 03:23 Buy Now! Borodin Symphony No.
    [Show full text]
  • Concert Series Newsletter November 2014
    MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE CONCERT SERIES NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2014 John Lill RapturousCollege Chapel reception to host for Nash Ensemble recital Wells Cathedral Choir The 2014-2015 Marlborough College Concert Series opened with a magnificent performance by the Nash Ensemble celebrating its 50th year and, to judge only by the captivated attention of the audience including 35 music students from the College, the original members of the Ensemble should have been hugely proud of the legacy that they have left. This was ensemble playing at its best and what came through so strikingly was not simply the hours of work that must have gone into the performance but rather the time spent on interpret- ation. It was a wonderfully contrasting programme which provided all the colours, the emotions, the sensitivities Music from the ‘Romantic’ era and at times the bravado of chamber music which could only have been properly interpreted by playing of the This month John Lill will perform solo works for highest quality, as we witnessed. From the gentle opening bars of piano from late 18th and 19th century Vienna Mahler’s Piano Quartet in A minor to the final ecstatic bars of Elgar’s Piano Quintet in the same key, via Felix Unanimously described as the leading all of which with the exception of a Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D Minor pianist of his generation, John Lill’s rare piece by Prokofiev were composed in there was an intensity in the perform- talent began to emerge in 1953, when Vienna between the late 18th and 19th ance that drew the audience in to he gave his first public recital at the age centuries.
    [Show full text]
  • Peter Gammond (1925-2019) Musical and Literary Jack-Of-All Trades and Stylish Master of Them All
    Peter Gammond (1925-2019) Musical And Literary Jack-Of-All Trades And Stylish Master Of Them All Able to combine rare insight with remarkable resilience, Peter Gammond, who died in May aged 93, was an urbane and avuncular figure whose long career embraced an extraordinarily diverse range of activities. Writer, critic, historian, broadcaster, reviewer, lexicographer, cartoonist, poet, bibliophile, musical arranger, composer, performer, but, above all, an undoubted enthusiast, while successfully documenting so many varied aspects of popular culture throughout the course of the second half of the last century, he undoubtedly helped preserve that era for posterity. In addition, his input and expertise proved no less pivotal in the successful development of the British recording industry. Born in 1925 in the Cheshire town of Northwich, Peter Gammond was educated at Sir John Deane’s Grammar School. Inheriting his love of music from his father, as both a talented pianist and trombonist, he was perhaps never happier than when making music. Initially winning a scholarship to Manchester College of Art, however like so many of his generation his seemingly effortless progress was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. Joining up in 1942, he served for five years as a tank driver in the Royal Armoured Corps, seeing action throughout the Far East and the Indian subcontinent. Demobbed in 1947, he then read English at Wadham College, Oxford. His professional career first began when he joined the Decca Record Company in 1952. Staying with them for eight years, he then became a freelance journalist and writer. Editing Audio Record Review from 1966 until 1970, he was then appointed Music Editor of Hi-Fi News and Record Review.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Booklet
    570531bk Arnold US 14/8/07 9:37 am Page 5 Esa Heikkilä 8.570531 The Finnish conductor Esa Heikkilä has been appointed Chief Conductor of the Joensuu City Orchestra (Joensuun British Piano Concertos Kaupunginorkesteri) in Finland from January 2008, adding this appointment to his positions as Artistic Director of DDD Symphony Orchestra Vivo (Finland’s national youth orchestra) and as Senior Lecturer for Orchestra and Chamber Music at the Lahti Polytechnic’s Faculty of Music. He passed his final Sibelius Academy conducting diploma concert in March 2004 with the highest possible mark. He has appeared with the Sinfonia Lahti, the Turku Sir Malcolm Philharmonic, the Tampere Philharmonic and Oulu Philharmonic orchestras, the Jyväskylä Symphony Orchestra, Joensuu City Orchestra, Kymi Sinfonietta, Pori Sinfonietta, Lappeenranta City Orchestra and Mikkeli City Orchestra. He has been invited to conduct nearly all of Finland’s orchestras in concert and recordings, as well as ARNOLD acting as assistant to Leif Segerstam in Germany and Lithuania, Mikko Franck and the Belgian National Orchestra, and Osmo Vänskä with Sinfonia Lahti. Outside Finland he has conducted the Haapsalu Festival Orchestra in Estonia for two years and made successful débuts with the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast in October 2004, the Iceland Concerto for Two Pianos (Three Hands) Symphony Orchestra in February 2005 and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders in March 2005. He was immediately re-invited to the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra after making his début with them in February 2006, by the BBC in Northern Ireland after a first engagement there in January 2007, and he returns to Iceland for Concerto for Piano Duet a third time in October 2007.
    [Show full text]
  • Benjamin Britten
    BENJAMIN BRITTEN Personální bibliografie Z DÍLA BENJAMINA BRITTENA Hudebniny A birthday Hansel [hudebnina]. For high voice and harp, op. 92. [Composed by] Benjamin Britten. Poems by Robert Burns. The harp part edited by Osian Ellis. London : Faber Music, 1978. 1 partitura (30 s.). A Ceremony of Carols [hudebnina]. For treble voices and harp, Op. 28. Übersetzung aus dem Engl. von Herbert E. Herlitschka. London : Boosey & Hawkes, 1994. 1 partitura (64 s.). A. M. D. G. [hudebnina]. Ad majorem Dei gloriam (1939). Seven settings of Gerard Manley Hopkins for unaccompanied SATB. London : Faber Music, 1989. 1 sborová partitura (55 s.). A Midsummer night’s dream [hudebnina]. Ein Sommernachtstraum. Opera in three acts, op. 64. [Composed by] Benjamin Britten. Libretto adapted from William Shakespeare by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. London : Boosey & Hawkes, 1960. 1 klavírní výtah (314 s.). An American ouverture (1941) [hudebnina]. For orchestra. London : Faber, 1985. 1 partitura (34 s.). Cadenzas to Mozart’s piano concerto in Es, K 482 [hudebnina]. London : Faber, 1967. 7 s. Canticle IV [hudebnina]. Journey of the Magi. For counter-tenor, tenor, baritone and piano. Op. 86. [Composed by] Benjamin Britten. Poem by T. S. Eliot. London : Faber Music, 1972. 1 partitura (24 s.). Canticle V [hudebnina]. The death of Saint Narcissus. For tenor and harp, op. 89. [Composed by] Benjamin Britten. Poem by T. S. Eliot. London : Faber Music, 1996. 1 partitura (15 s.). Concerto No. 1, Op. 15 for Violin and Orchestra [hudebnina]. Reduction for Violin and Piano. London : Hawkes & Son, c1940. 1 klavírní výtah (40 s.) + 1 hlas (17 s.). CROZIER, Eric: Wir machen eine Oper [hudebnina].
    [Show full text]