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Composers & Music / Re: Sibelius The Wood Nymph

Last post by Alan Howe - Yesterday at 18:51

Actually the Wood Nymph contains plenty of music that is also proleptic of Sibelius' later works - especially the opening which looks forward to the 5th Symphony and, in its moments of sheer wildness, to Tapiola. What an amazingly original composer he was - virtually from the word go.

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Recordings & Broadcasts / BBC Proms 2024 Season

Last post by Alan Howe - Yesterday at 18:45

Having scanned today's release of details, I find that there are some concerts of interest in the upcoming season:

22nd July: Schoenberg 'Pelleas und Melisande' & Zemlinsky 'Die Seejungfrau' (BBCNOW/Ryan Bancroft)

5th August: Busoni Piano Concerto (Ben Grosvenor/LPO/Gardner)

12th August: Farrenc Overture No.17 (BBCNOW/Nil Venditti)

27th August: Suk 'Asrael' Symphony (Czech Philharmonic/Hrusa)

13th September: Farrenc Symphony No.3 (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Manacorda)

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Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Johanna Senfter Chamber mu...

Last post by Alan Howe - Yesterday at 18:04

Works featured:

Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op.119
Clarinet Sonata in A, Op.57
Kleines leichtes (= Small/Short Simple) Trio Op.134
Piano Quartet No.1 in E minor, Op.11
Sonata in D, Op.37 for Clarinet, Viola, Horn & Piano
Trio Op.103 for Clarinet, Horn & Klavier

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Composers & Music / Re: Sir Andrew Davis dies 20th...

Last post by tappell - Yesterday at 17:11

That is sad news. Sir Andrew Davis has always been my go to conductor for Elgar, after I purchased and grew to love, his 5 cd box set with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, now on Warner. I also have a treasured DVD of Sir Andrew Davis conducting the Enigma Variations, and explaining and referencing each variation. A sad loss.

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Composers & Music / Re: Sibelius The Wood Nymph

Last post by tappell - Yesterday at 17:06

Thank you for the heads up. I was not aware of this piece, although discovered I already had it on a recording by John Storgards. I am equally blown away, particularly as it falls within the earlier period of Sibelius's works which is much more to my taste than his later works.

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Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Johanna Senfter Chamber mu...

Last post by Droosbury - Yesterday at 15:51

Excellent. Will be nice to hear some more of her earlier works

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Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Recording of Raff's Samson

Last post by Mark Thomas - Yesterday at 14:08

Here's a trailer for the recording.

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Composers & Music / Sibelius The Wood Nymph

Last post by Alan Howe - Yesterday at 13:15

Coming between Kullervo and Symphony No.1, this is an entirely typical and characteristic tone poem of which I was previously unaware. I gather it was only rediscovered in the 1980s and given its first performance by Osmo Vänskä in 1996. I am blown away...

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Recordings & Broadcasts / Johanna Senfter Chamber music

Last post by Alan Howe - Yesterday at 09:03

...a 2-CD collection from cpo:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/johanna-senfter-klarinettentrio/hnum/11170347

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Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Ethel Smyth opera: Der Wal...

Last post by Wheesht - Wednesday 24 April 2024, 15:00

Oper Wuppertal is showing a joint performance of Schönberg's "Erwartung" and Smyth's "Der Wald". A very positive review can be read in the German version of VAN magazine (subscription required but two articles per month can be read for free).