Just had the most wonderful talk with Andrew Manze on #VaughanWilliams and #Elgar
Very much looking forward to this programme with the #ConcertgebouwOrchestra
#ILoveMyJob

https://www.concertgebouw.nl/concerten/3111780-concertgebouworkest-speelt-elgar-en-vaughan-williams

My Guardian review of the world premiere of Iain Bell's Beowulf at the Barbican.

Some issues with balance hamper its impact, but it's wonderfully well played and sung by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and tenor Charles Styles under Martyn Brabbins, who is also in his element in Vaughan Williams's Job:-

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/19/bbcsobrabbins-review-last-minute-change-adds-drama-to-beowulf-premiere?CMP=share_btn_tw

You can hear it on BBC Radio 3 on 18 April

@classicalmusic #Beowulf #IainBell #CharlesStyles #VaughanWilliams

@jastsa @classicalmusic Tough call. Off the top of my head:
#dvorak
#mahler
#VaughanWilliams
#FrançoisCouperin
#richardstrauss
#gershwin
#ravel

Among younger composers who are still early in their careers, my faves include:
#annaclyne
#JessieMontgomery
#kevinputs
#jamesleeiii
#damiensneed

The @tippettquartet’s performances of #VaughanWilliams' #StringQuartets & #Holst's Phantasy are exemplary, but it is the VW String Quartet No. 1 that sets this disc alight with energy & variety of expression
@SOMMRecordings #SOMMRecordings https://nicks-classical-notes.blogspot.com/2022/11/cd-reviews-december-2022.html

@jastsa @classicalmusic Selecting only #composers who have written original brass band works these would be the most notable (with suggested listening):

#PercyFletcher (Labour & Love*)
#VaughanWilliams (Variations for Band)
#Holst (Moorside Suite)
#Elgar (Severn Suite)
#JohnIreland (A Downland Suite, originally brass not strings!)
#HerbertHowells (Pageantry)
#MalcolmArnold (Little Suite for Brass)

* The first significant original work ever written for brass band, in 1913

Just look at these photos, courtesy of Jim McCafferty Photography!

Music, actors, poetry

Featuring the fabulous @brenbaritone

With a wonderful Orchestra North West

Support @children_in_crossfire & enjoy this special experience with us for as little as £10 - Online Premiere from 7pm Saturday 26 November, or watch On Demand any time after. This link:

https://www.childrenincrossfire.org/shop/concert-the-unanswered-question-music-and-poetry-of-searching-and-peace-online/

#choir #choirmusic #choirlife #choirperformance #choirs #choralmusic #choralsinging #charityevent #vaughanwilliams

Den verregneten Tag mit dem dritten Satz "Romanze' von #VaughanWilliams 5. Symphonie begonnen. Kann nur mehr gut werden- absolute Musik. Danke #RogerNorrington

Slightly belatedly, to mark Vaughan Williams’ 150th anniversary, a new post at my Around The Edges blog that traces the songs that RVW (and Sharp, Grainger etc) collected before WW1, and then included in his Folk Song Suite, and the versions that re-emerged in the folk-rock boom in the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s.

https://aroundtheedges.wordpress.com/2022/11/20/from-field-recordings-to-folk-rock-vaughan-williams-june-tabor/

#folk, #music, #VaughanWilliams

Slightly belatedly, to mark RVW’s 150th anniversary, a post that traces the songs that Vaughan Williams (and Sharp, Grainger etc) collected before WW1, and then included in his Folk Song Suite, and the versions that re-emerged in the folk-rock boom in the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s.

#folk, #music, #VaughanWilliams

@jastsa @classicalmusic
Choosing your seven favourite composers reminds me of Raymond Briggs on Desert Island Discs who chose the music he was listening to that week. Nevertheless, here are some of my forever favourites: #bach #handel #vivaldi #vaughanwilliams #reich #beethoven #monteverdi

Today's playlist includes:

#Albanberg (3 Orchesterstücke)
#VaughanWilliams (Sym 3)
#Gliere (also, Sym 3)
#Finzi (Cello Cto)
#Howells (Piano Quartet).

@jastsa @classicalmusic

Mine may be the intermediate piano student starter kit but here goes:

#Chopin
#Schubert
#Debussy
#Tchaikovsky
#Stravinsky
#SaintSaëns
#VaughanWilliams
#Holst
#Ravel

A #composer who is v new to me is #InaBoyle. A friend introduced me to her music very recently and I’m only just getting started but this short little piece seems a beautiful way in.
She was a pupil of #VaughanWilliams I think but I’ve not learned much more than that yet other than that her music is very immediately appealing. Anyone else know much about her Hope you enjoy 🎶😃
#classicalmusic #musicappreciation @classicalmusic
@womencomposers

https://youtu.be/RVhhZCkW0ww