βLong Memoriesβ β the original idea for a book of interviews with senior composers came as the result of meeting and working with two very…
One of the Toccata Classics releases later this summer will be a recording of a sequence of piano preludes commissioned from me in 2014 by…
Two years after I began to record it, the first-ever album of Francis George Scottβs piano music is now available. The programme as it appears…
The Waldegrave Ensemble established itself in 2009 as a flexible ensemble of wind, strings, piano, harp and brass, with a wind quintet at its core.…
The longest piece on the new Toccata Classics album of my choral works is A Lenten Cantata. It was premiered in 2017 with organ and…
di Potito Pedarra Scrive Lorenzo Arruga presentando alcune βliriche piΓΉ famose [di Respighi]: una volta le ho persino accompagnate in un piccolo concerto, accettando a…
I approached Classical:NEXT 2015 β the trade fair for classical music β at De Doelen, Rotterdam, at the end of May, with an open mind…
The publication of MartinΕ― and the Symphony in 2010 brought a few unexpected opportunities my way. Even before the book appeared, I had taken part…
It may come as a surprise to many that Mischa Spoliansky, the composer of the sly and witty cabaret songs that helped to launch the…
The death of Zuzana RΕ―ΕΎiΔkovΓ‘ β peacefully, in her sleep, in the early afternoon on 27 September 2017 β brings to an end one of…
UPDATE – STEVE ELCOCK: ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, VOLUME ONE IS OUT NOW! You can imagine that, running a recording label, I get approaches from all sorts…
The Krein family, with its origins in Lithuania, became a musical dynasty of considerable importance in Imperial and then Soviet Russia. The seven sons of its patriarch, Abram Krein, were all musicians, with Alexander and Grigory becoming respected composers, and Grigoriβs son, Yulian, adding another generation of Krein compositions. The dances and cantillation of their Jewish background was an important part of their musical make-up, combining at various stages with Russian folk-music, Skryabinesque harmony and French Impressionism. All three shared a predilection for the clarinet, developing a repertoire for the instrument that is only now beginning to be discovered β in what one might call a Krein scene investigation.
Anne Elisabeth Piirainen, clarinet
Iryna Gorkun-SilΓ©n, flute (tracks 4β6)
Lea Tuuri, violin (Tracks 1, 2, 9β11, 14β16)
Maria Puusaari, violin (Tracks 1, 2, 9β11)
Jussi Aalto, viola (Tracks 1, 2, 9β11)
Pinja NuΓ±ez, cello (Tracks 1, 2, 9β11, 14β16)
Kirill Kozlovski, piano (Tracks 3β8, 12β16)
The figure of George Frideric Handel cast a long shadow over musical London in the first half of the eighteenth century, condemning many of his contemporaries β fine composers themselves β to long years of obscurity. This recording throws light into forgotten corners and discovers some glittering gems, some of them demanding dazzling vocal fireworks from their performers. Several of these composers set scenes from Classical mythology or Old Testament narratives β but they also explore the underside of the Baroque psyche in one of Davidβs darkest psalms and in a representation of Arcadian madness.
Lux et Umbrae
Robert Crowe, soprano and artistic director
Annette Fischer, soprano
Julia Nilsen-Savage, cello
Sigrun Richter, archlute
Michael Eberth, harpsichord
A brief introduction to the music of Algernon Ashton and a discussion with Jane Clark Dodgson about her late husband, Stephen Dodgson, in St Margaret…
In Moscow in early November 2018, a series of events were staged to honour the memory of Alexander Ivashkin β cellist, scholar and champion of…
Cedric Thorpe Davie was born into a musical family in London in 1913. His father, Thorpe Davie, was a remarkable Scot who had a successful…
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