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#11
Composers & Music / Voices from the East - concert...
Last post by Christopher - Tuesday 30 April 2024, 18:32Just noticed this:
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/festivals-series/classical-season/voices-east
Voices from the East: Ukraine
Sun 19 May, 7.30pm
Part of Voices from the East
Royal Festival Hall
de Hartmann: Selection from La Fleurette Rouge Suite
Anna Korsun: Terricone
Lyatoshinsky: Symphony No.4
Discover heartfelt works by some of Ukraine's finest composers with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kirill Karabits, presented by Tom Service.
In the last of today's three concerts bringing the orchestra's acclaimed series Voices from the East to London, the Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits celebrates music by his compatriot composers that displays a wealth of colour, narrative and emotional power.
To open, there's music by Thomas de Hartmann, a prolific composer of works sacred, secular and cinematic, and a disciple of the spiritual teacher Gurdjieff.
His ballet La Fleurette Rouge was first performed for Tsar Nicholas, starring the dancers Nijinsky, Pavlova and Fokine.
Next comes Tericone by Anna Korsun. Born in Donetsk and educated in Kyiv, she's a fast-rising star of the younger generation.
Boris Lyatoshinsky was one of Ukrainian music's most important 20th-century figures and his five symphonies are a cornerstone of its orchestral repertoire.
Though ostracised in the USSR, Lyatoshinsky continued to write music that pushed far beyond the narrow boundaries of 'soviet realism'.
Much of his work went unperformed for years. This is a rare chance to hear his opulent, fantastical Symphony No.4.
This concert is part of Voices from the East, a day-long exploration of forgotten orchestral masterpieces from Ukraine and its surrounding regions.
(The other two concerts, on the same day, feature music by composers from Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia - but none are from the era/style that this forum would appreciate!)
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/festivals-series/classical-season/voices-east
Voices from the East: Ukraine
Sun 19 May, 7.30pm
Part of Voices from the East
Royal Festival Hall
de Hartmann: Selection from La Fleurette Rouge Suite
Anna Korsun: Terricone
Lyatoshinsky: Symphony No.4
Discover heartfelt works by some of Ukraine's finest composers with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kirill Karabits, presented by Tom Service.
In the last of today's three concerts bringing the orchestra's acclaimed series Voices from the East to London, the Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits celebrates music by his compatriot composers that displays a wealth of colour, narrative and emotional power.
To open, there's music by Thomas de Hartmann, a prolific composer of works sacred, secular and cinematic, and a disciple of the spiritual teacher Gurdjieff.
His ballet La Fleurette Rouge was first performed for Tsar Nicholas, starring the dancers Nijinsky, Pavlova and Fokine.
Next comes Tericone by Anna Korsun. Born in Donetsk and educated in Kyiv, she's a fast-rising star of the younger generation.
Boris Lyatoshinsky was one of Ukrainian music's most important 20th-century figures and his five symphonies are a cornerstone of its orchestral repertoire.
Though ostracised in the USSR, Lyatoshinsky continued to write music that pushed far beyond the narrow boundaries of 'soviet realism'.
Much of his work went unperformed for years. This is a rare chance to hear his opulent, fantastical Symphony No.4.
This concert is part of Voices from the East, a day-long exploration of forgotten orchestral masterpieces from Ukraine and its surrounding regions.
(The other two concerts, on the same day, feature music by composers from Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia - but none are from the era/style that this forum would appreciate!)
#12
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Czerny Concerto for Piano ...
Last post by Alan Howe - Tuesday 30 April 2024, 17:36Quote from: Martin Eastick on Tuesday 30 April 2024, 12:37It would surely bring the house down at the Proms!
So instead they programme Sam Smith
#13
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: BBC Proms 2024 Season
Last post by Alan Howe - Tuesday 30 April 2024, 17:33I'm very tempted to expunge one of those images... 
#14
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: BBC Proms 2024 Season
Last post by Christopher - Tuesday 30 April 2024, 15:23Quote from: semloh on Tuesday 30 April 2024, 13:38Hmm... he certainly looks out of place, sandwiched between Elgar and Tchaikovsky! But then the Proms have a history of odd choices.
And in what way would you say he looks out of place Semloh?!
Am very glad, however, about the Farrenc and Busoni concerts Alan has listed, will certainly seek to go to those.
#15
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: BBC Proms 2024 Season
Last post by semloh - Tuesday 30 April 2024, 13:38Hmm... he certainly looks out of place, sandwiched between Elgar and Tchaikovsky! But then the Proms have a history of odd choices.
#16
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Czerny Concerto for Piano ...
Last post by Martin Eastick - Tuesday 30 April 2024, 12:37The Czerny concerto is an time favourite of mine, ever since finding it on an obscure American LP back in the 1970's! I was also fortunate enough to attend a live performance given by Harvey Dagul and his wife a few years later. Yes, there are torrents of notes, but it is extremely well constructed for the medium. It can also be performed without orchestra for anyone interested, and it is great fun to play. It also has its more tender moments - try the development section in the first movement, which starts in the key of E minor, before some surprising sequential modulations which Czerny was most adept at! Altogether a most enjoyable work both to listen to and also to perform! It would surely bring the house down at the Proms!
#17
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: BBC Proms 2024 Season
Last post by Christopher - Tuesday 30 April 2024, 11:29And also the completely unknown unsung (can't-sing) classical composer Sam Smith (https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ej8mzc)
#18
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: BBC Proms 2024 Season
Last post by Alan Howe - Tuesday 30 April 2024, 11:17Yes - thanks, Colin. I missed that. See here for details:
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/proms/bbc-proms-24/prom-19/ (on 3rd August)
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/proms/bbc-proms-24/prom-19/ (on 3rd August)
#19
Composers & Music / Re: Sibelius The Wood Nymph
Last post by semloh - Tuesday 30 April 2024, 11:01Yes, Osmo Vänskä recorded it in the BIS Sibelius series with the LahtiSO.
#20
Composers & Music / Re: Eižens Buke / Evgeny Bukke...
Last post by Christopher - Tuesday 30 April 2024, 10:58Quote from: Theodore S. on Tuesday 30 April 2024, 03:13Hello everyone,
As suggested by the OP Christopher, I'd like to share a score of a piece by Eizens (Evgeny) Bukke, the Romance in C-sharp minor for violin and piano (kindly scanned for me by a friend in Riga). I'm not aware of any recordings of this piece, but reading through it, it's clearly a very lovely composition, I'm sure any violinist would be happy to perform it as a short concert piece - on that note, the score also includes the violin part. Interesting to note the Romance's premiere by the composer and Prince Georgy Dulov, it seems he helped publish the piece as well, judging by the front and back pages of the score, under the legend "Полный курс скрипичной игры: заключающий в себе упражнения, этюды и песны, расположенныя по степеням трудности и составленный из произведений знаменитых скрипачей и композиторов - Преподавателем Московской Консерватории кн. Г. ДУЛОВЫМ" (adapted to modern Russian Cyrillic from the Imperial spelling).
Anyway, here's hoping the piece will get a recording!
That is "A complete course of violin playing: containing exercises, etudes and songs, arranged according to degrees of difficulty and compiled from the works of famous violinists and composers - Teacher of the Moscow Conservatory, Prince. G. DULOV"
Thanks Theodore!
(And here's about Prince Dulov, you'll need google translate:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дулов,_Георгий_Николаевич )