Thursday, 27 August 2020

Anne Ozorio 8 October 1951--22 August 2020

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Anne Ozorio  (right)  with soprano Sarah Minns in 2011  (photo: Roger Thomas) Sadly, the owner of this blog, Anne Ozorio, died on 22 A...
Wednesday, 15 July 2020

Secrets of the Sahara - Le Désert and L'Atlantide

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Secrets of the Sahara !  Two magnificent evocations of the Sahara and its seductive mysteries : Félicien David's Le Désert (1844...
Saturday, 11 July 2020

Two Pastorals : Beethoven Symphony no 6, Knecht Le portrait musical de la Nature

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Two pastorals : Beethoven's Symphony no 6 "Pastoral" op 68 and Justin Heinrich Knecht Le Portrait musical de la Nature , w...
Friday, 3 July 2020

Freiburger Barockorchester, Heras-Casado : Beethoven Choral Fantasy and Symphony no 9

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Beethoven Symphony no 9 "Choral" in D minor, Op. 125, and the Choral Fantasy   in C minor op 80 with soloist K ristian Bezuide...
Monday, 29 June 2020

Glyndebourne magic at home - Ravel L'enfant et les sortilèges

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L'enfant et les sortilèges - Teapot (François Piolino) Child (Khatouna Gadelia) Chinese Cup (Elodie Méchain) Credit Simon Annand  G...
Sunday, 21 June 2020

The New Babylon - Kozintsev, Trauberg and Shostakovich

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Dimitri Shostakovich's first film score, for the 1929 film by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, The New Babylon (Novyy Vavilon)...
Sunday, 14 June 2020

Keeping live music alive - Royal Opera House live from Covent Garden

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Lots to listen to this weekend : Live from the Royal Opera House, London, from the Rudolfinium Prague with Simon Rattle conducting the...
Friday, 12 June 2020

Roderick Williams - defeating cultural apartheid in Lieder, Wigmore Hall

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Roderick Williams sings Schumann Frauen-Liebe und Leben at the Wigmore Hall with pianist Joseph Middleton, highlight of an unusual prog...
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

Night Mail 1936 - Art and covert socialism

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Available now on BFI player, Night Mail, the pioneering documentary produced by the General Post Office film unit released in February ...
Friday, 5 June 2020

People or pianos ? Good for Yuja Wang !

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Yuja Wang (Photo : Julia Wesley) On her Facebook page Yuja Wang has spoken out on the image of a piano trashed in the protests after th...
Saturday, 30 May 2020

The Proms as Covid Supernova ?

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Does some of the London media want a supernova of COVID infections this year ? The BBC Proms this year will respect safety guidelines, sw...
Thursday, 28 May 2020

Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau - Jurowski Concertgebouw Amsterdam

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Alexander Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau with Vladimir Jurowski conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam Orchestra in 2013 on the RCOA s...
Saturday, 23 May 2020

The personal Roger Quilter : Mark Stone - Songs of Roger Quilter vol 3

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Mark Stone and Stephen Barlow present Volume III in their series the Complete Roger Quilter Songbook, on Stone Records. Quilter made mor...
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Hi'ilawe - one of the loveliest songs, ever

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Hi'ilawe is one of my favourite songs ever, which is saying a lot since I've been doing Lieder and art song since I was a kid.  ...
Saturday, 16 May 2020

Ca' the yowes to the knowes - folk song and art song

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New from Stone Records, Part 3 in their Roger Quilter Complete Songs series,  Roger Quilter's Ca' the yowes with Mark Stone...