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Annual
Meeting of the Alan Rawsthorne Society
8th & 9th September 2001 Corpus Christi College Oxford
non-members welcome
Arts in residence Great Music in Wonderful Surroundings with Arts in Residence
A Rare opportunity: The University of Warwick Orchestra will be performing Rawsthorne's 'Street Corner Overture' and Alwyn's Symphony No 3 in a concert which also features Walton's 'Belshazzar's Feast', on Tuesday 4 December 2001 in the Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry. Box Office 02476 524524
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NEW and RECENT ARTICLES
ENCYCLOPAEDIA of Popular Music now on-line (nearly 4000 pages)
THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC Reflections of a music publisher by Ernst Roth
Arthur Butterworth Writes: Percussion and the Brass band
Dyertribes and Digressions: Musings on Carmen by David Dyer
If you enjoy the sort of articles Arthur Butterworth and others write and feel you would like to write one yourself I would be willing to open a Public Forum where they could be presented. email Len
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Did you know you could help sponsor a new recording for as little as £10 - a symphony for £25? Read on such as this one now reviewed here: GRAHAM WHETTAM Sinfonia Intrepida
BBCSO/Sir Charles Mackerras.
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[Part 4 M-R] [Part 5 S-Y] [Part 6 Misc]RECORDINGS OF THE MONTH
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Musical Offering BWV 1079
Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall, director Rec: November 1999, April 2000, Cardona Castle Collegiate Church, Cardona, Spain.
Now you can discover one of Bach's greatest works in perhaps its finest performance.
Leonardo BALADA (b.1933) Concerto for piano and orchestra No 3 (1999) Concerto Magico for Guitar and orchestra (1997) Music for Flute and Orchestra (2000)
These are outstanding performances of terrifically interesting and fascinating music. At any price I would go out and snap it immediately.
Lowell LIEBERMANN (b.1961) Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 12 Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 36 Six pieces from 'Album for the young'
Stephen Hough (Piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Lowell Liebermann Recorded: Caird Hall, Dundee, January 1997
These works display phenomenal skill, technique, confidence and, I use the word not lightly, genius, in the 2nd concerto at least.
Giacomo PUCCINI (1858-1924) Preludio sinfonico, Op. 1. Messa di Gloria, Op. posth. Crisantemi.
Roberto Alagna (tenor); Thomas Hampson (baritone); London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Antonio Pappano. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London in September 2000.
Maestro Pappano's obvious belief in lesser-known Puccini seems to have inspired the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra to the peak of their abilities.The stars of the disc remain the London Symphony Chorus, whose unanimity of approach, well-drilled discipline and dedication to the Puccinian cause are beyond reproach.
OLGA GURYAKOVA SINGS RUSSIAN AIRS AND ROMANCES
This is one of the most exciting new voices I have heard in a long time. A most enjoyable disc, winningly performed. Recommended unreservedly.
BARGAIN OF THE MONTH
George ANTHEIL (1900-1959) Ballet Mechanique (revised 1953) Serenade for String Orchestra No1, Symphony for Five instruments (second version), Concert for Chamber Orchestra
Richard WAGNER (1813-1883) Parsifal (1865-1882) Amfortas - George London Titurel - Martti Talvela Gurnemanz - Hans Hotter Parsifal - Jess Thomas Klingor - Gustav Neidlinger Kundry - Irene Dalis
Along with Furtwängler's Tristan this is one of the great Wagner recordings of the last 50 years.
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