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Post by jandl100 on May 4, 2021 4:26:13 GMT
In the review that put me on to this album Eivind Groven was described as the Norwegian Vaughan Williams.
(Maybe in Norway Vaughan Williams is described as the English Groven?)
Anyway, I hear where the reviewer is coming from, this is powerfully emotional, melodic and and enjoyable.
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Post by jandl100 on May 4, 2021 6:28:23 GMT
This might please Martin.
A concerto for organ and strings by Leo Sowerby.
So many composers to investigate. Sowerby is definitely on my list after hearing this.
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Post by MartinT on May 4, 2021 6:45:12 GMT
Thanks, Jerry. I'm going to investigate both of the above.
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Post by jandl100 on May 4, 2021 19:23:44 GMT
Alf Hurum
Strong quartet, tone poem and symphony.
The symphony is especially good.
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Post by MartinT on May 4, 2021 19:46:38 GMT
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Post by MartinT on May 4, 2021 19:47:39 GMT
Have to tell you, I hear tiny touches of Poulenc in there.
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Post by jandl100 on May 5, 2021 4:42:44 GMT
Have to tell you, I hear tiny touches of Poulenc in there. I didn't say that all the music was good.  |
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Post by jandl100 on May 5, 2021 9:21:24 GMT
Early cello pieces with fortepiano , lovely recording.
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Post by jandl100 on May 5, 2021 12:41:58 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on May 5, 2021 16:53:53 GMT
Awesome piano recital of Handel and Bach transcriptions!
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Post by jandl100 on May 5, 2021 18:21:06 GMT
Weird string quartet stuff
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Post by jandl100 on May 6, 2021 5:25:42 GMT
SaintSaens solo organ works
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Post by MartinT on May 6, 2021 19:37:35 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on May 6, 2021 21:59:36 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on May 7, 2021 6:37:13 GMT
^ 20thC piano!
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Post by jandl100 on May 7, 2021 6:38:52 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on May 7, 2021 14:12:48 GMT
I'm listening to the 24 Preludes with Ashkenazy at the keys ...  |
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Post by jandl100 on May 7, 2021 15:17:29 GMT
I am very much taken by this - composer Enjott Schneider - who?!?!
The album is called Bach, Dracula, Vivaldi & Co.
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Post by julesd68 on May 7, 2021 15:31:58 GMT
Jerry, I had no idea about the connection between Shostakovich and Tatiana Nikolayeva. Most interesting!
< The distinguished Soviet pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva is a name familiar to many as one of the greatest forces behind the wealth of piano talent to flood from the former Soviet Union during the twentieth century.
She was born on 4 May 1924 and began playing the piano at the age of three, subsequently entering the Moscow Conservatoire to study with Alexander Goldenweiser and Yevgeny Golubev. She retained her close connection with the Moscow Conservatoire all her life. Indeed, her name was inscribed twice on the marble Roll of Honour there, first as a pianist, then as a composer.
After winning the 1950 Bach Leipzig Piano Competition, Nikolayeva built up a phenomenal volume of repertoire, ranging from Bach to Bartók and beyond. Her interpretation of Bach on record won great critical acclaim. Whilst others used so-called 'original' instruments, Nikolayeva preferred to play Bach on a modern Steinway—always with great success.
Her long working association with Shostakovich, and her great understanding of all aspects of his music, made her one of the leading sources of contemporary knowledge about that great composer. It was Nikolayeva for whom Shostakovich wrote his 24 Preludes and Fugues, inspired by hearing her Bach-playing at the 1950 Bach bicentenary Competition in Leipzig (he was on the jury), and it was she who premiered them in Leningrad in 1952. >
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Post by julesd68 on May 7, 2021 16:22:27 GMT
Some Paganini.
Awesome to have Yngwie back in such fine form.
OMG this is going to be played loud when I get my hands on the system.
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