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Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Recording of Raff's Samson
Last post by Alan Howe - Today at 21:25Facebook confirms the date: Bis zum offiziellen Release am 20. Mai...
Nothing on the label's website, though.
Nothing on the label's website, though.
#2
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Recording of Raff's Samson
Last post by Justin - Today at 21:00Release date is May 20th.
#3
Composers & Music / Re: 2024 Unsung Concerts
Last post by scarpia - Today at 19:04Hummel's Fantasie for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 94 is being played by the Dartmouth Symphony on May 5. that's the same day that TON at Bard will play Joseph Joachim Variations for Violin and Orchestra, Eugène Ysaÿe Violin Concerto in D minor (U.S. Premiere) and the Enescu Symphony No. 2.
I almost forgot 4-30 and 5-2 in Montreal the OSM is playing Emilie Mayer, Symphony no. 7 .
I almost forgot 4-30 and 5-2 in Montreal the OSM is playing Emilie Mayer, Symphony no. 7 .
#4
Composers & Music / Voices from the East - concert...
Last post by Christopher - Today at 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!)
#5
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Czerny Concerto for Piano ...
Last post by Alan Howe - Today at 17:36Quote from: Martin Eastick on Today at 12:37It would surely bring the house down at the Proms!
So instead they programme Sam Smith
#6
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: BBC Proms 2024 Season
Last post by Alan Howe - Today at 17:33I'm very tempted to expunge one of those images... 
#7
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: BBC Proms 2024 Season
Last post by Christopher - Today at 15:23Quote from: semloh on Today at 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.
#8
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: BBC Proms 2024 Season
Last post by semloh - Today at 13:38Hmm... he certainly looks out of place, sandwiched between Elgar and Tchaikovsky! But then the Proms have a history of odd choices.
#9
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: Czerny Concerto for Piano ...
Last post by Martin Eastick - Today at 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!
#10
Recordings & Broadcasts / Re: BBC Proms 2024 Season
Last post by Christopher - Today at 11:29And also the completely unknown unsung (can't-sing) classical composer Sam Smith (https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ej8mzc)