Classical Music - Comments by Gill Sans

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Gill Sans SUBS 4th Feb 2024		Classical Item Jussi Björling, Nils Grevillius Orkester - Leendets Land (1932)	[YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 4th Feb 2024		Classical Item Choir Of St John's College, Cambridge: Christopher Robinson - Fear And Rejoice, O People (1998)	I now find that Jesus Christ The Apple Tree was set as a Sacred Harp hymn by Jeremiah Ingalls in 1805: [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 3rd Feb 2024		Classical Item The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter - This Is The Day: Music On Royal Occasions (2012)	Final Dance Of Homage from the Benjamin Britten Dances; though not credited in the booklet, the soprano soloist here is clearly Elin Manahan Thomas. [YouTube Video] I can't resist adding the William Harris introit: [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 1st Feb 2024		Classical Item Various Artists - Editor's Choice: The Top Ten Discs Of June 2010 (2010)	It should be possible eventually to identify all the CDs from which these tracks were taken. For a start I have found these: Richard Ayers: Composers' Voice Portrait John Eliot Gardiner: Matthäus-Passion Herbert von Karajan: Beethoven Triple Concerto
Gill Sans SUBS 31st Jan 2024		Classical Item Various Artists - Editor's Choice: The Top Ten Discs Of June 2010 (2010)	Esa-Pekka Salonen And James Jolly discuss the works of Igor Stravinsky, with illustrations from recordings conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. There are also the Editor's choice from the releases of the month, followed by a competition to identify these "greatest recordings ever" and spot the odd one out. Track 13: Puccini - Tosca, Act II; Maria Callas, Tito Gobi, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Victor di Sabato. Track 14: Beethoven - Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op. 92, Vienna Philharmonic, Carlos Kleiber. Track 15: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 - Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner. Track 16: Otello, Act II, Jon VickersOrchestra e Coro dell'opera di Roma, Tullio Serafin. Track 17: Victoria - Requiem, Peter Philips and the Tallis Scholars. Track 18: Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, Herbert von Karajan.
Gill Sans SUBS 29th Jan 2024		Classical Item Stile Antico - Puer Natus Est: Tudor Music For Advent And Christmas (2010)	[YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 27th Jan 2024		Classical Item Gérard Souzay - An Die Musik (1970)	Gérard Souzay was noted more for the accuracy of his singing than for the strength of his voice, and what better way to show this than in the Schubert art-song An die Musik, accompanied by his partner Dalton Baldwin. [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 26th Jan 2024		Classical Item Torsten Mossberg, Anders Karlqvist - Allan Pettersson: Complete Songs (2014)	[YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 26th Jan 2024		Classical Item Salisbury Cathedral Boy Choristers, Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh - John Sheppard · Missa Cantate: Passion And Third Mass Of Christmas According To The Sarum Rite (2000)	[YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 20th Jan 2024		Classical Item The Knightsbridge Opera Orchestra And Choir - The Beggar's Opera (1971)	Pepusch's Beggar's Opera is a satire of the then fashionable Italian operatic style, and influenced British operatic composition for several generations. Pepusch wrote original compositions and made many arrangements of popular folk tunes of the day. I can find no video from the Knightsbridge Opera recording, but this video will give the flavour of the work by Pepusch and Gay. [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 9th Jan 2024		Classical Item Nicolai Gedda - Seinen Freunden Gewidmet	Thank you WW - Gika Zdravkovitch now auto-converts to Živojin Zdravković, who can now be found on en.wikipedia.
Gill Sans SUBS 30th Dec 2023		Classical Item José Carreras, Teresa Berganza - Zarzuela! Spanish Operetta	"Zarzuela" is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance.
Gill Sans SUBS 23rd Dec 2023		Classical Item Choir Of St John's College, Cambridge: Christopher Robinson - Fear And Rejoice, O People (1998)	Jesus Christ The Apple Tree has joined the mainstream of popular favorite Christmas carols: [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 17th Dec 2023		Classical Item Sinfonia Of London, John Wilson - Korngold: Symphony In F Sharp (2019)	Thanks for the image.
Gill Sans SUBS 17th Dec 2023		Classical Item Sinfonia Of London, John Wilson - Korngold: Symphony In F Sharp (2019)	Why not add an image of the disk Greg - that would aid in the discussion!
Gill Sans SUBS 14th Dec 2023		Classical Item Taverner Consort, Choir And Players, Andrew Parrott - Music For Christmas (1993)	Weihnachtsmusik, for string trio, piano and harmonium. Unlike Schoenberg's better-known atonal composing style, this is traditinally tonal, being written for his family to play one Christmas. This starts with a quote from Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (There is no rose of such vertu): [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 14th Dec 2023		Classical Item Taverner Consort, Choir And Players, Andrew Parrott - Music For Christmas (1993)	I continue to work my way through the tracks here, and today's favourite is the Liszt transcription of Adeste Fideles, which manages to be rather intense but always with a sense of fun, shown by the repeated use of the " 'Ave A Banana" phrase. The pianist here is not credited and this version does not seem to be on YT but there is a good live performance by Alberto Belluschi
Gill Sans SUBS 14th Dec 2023		Classical Item Taverner Consort, Choir And Players, Andrew Parrott - Music For Christmas (1993)	[YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 13th Dec 2023		Classical Item Taverner Consort, Choir And Players, Andrew Parrott - Music For Christmas (1993)	Joy To The World is shown here as 19th C Anon, but is usually ascribed to "Lowell Mason, based on Handel". An almost identical setting was used in the hymn "Comfort" by Charles Rider of Manchester (England). There's a detailed Wikipedia page for Joy to the World
Gill Sans SUBS 8th Dec 2023		Classical Item The Choir Of King's College, Cambridge - Gibbons: Tudor Church Music (2002)	Thanks Phil, don't know how I missed those details!
Gill Sans SUBS 7th Dec 2023		Classical Item The Choir Of King's College, Cambridge - Gibbons: Tudor Church Music (1997)	The material here was previously released on Decca LP albums, and was subsequently released as a CD on Decca Eloquence 461 452-2 The Evening Canticles are Gibbon's Second Service setting in A♭, despite the inlay text describing them as from the "Short Service" settings (in F).
Gill Sans SUBS 30th Nov 2023		Classical Item Heddle Nash - Heddle Nash Song Album · The Columbia And HMV Recordings (1998)	[YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 27th Nov 2023		Classical Item Capella Istropolitana - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 And Violin Concerto No. 5 (1990)	Re-issued 1st Jan 2001, image shown here.
Gill Sans SUBS 27th Nov 2023		Classical Item Rafael Druian, Ilse Von Alpenheim, Earl Carlyss, Ann Schein - Benjamin Lees, Ned Rorem (1974)	Ned Rorem, "hailed by some as the greatest art song composer of his time" is Composer of the Week this week on BBC Radio 3
Gill Sans SUBS 14th Nov 2023		Classical Item Tonny Landy, Friedrich Gürtler - Danske Sange (2022)	[YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 4th Nov 2023		Classical Item Various Artists - Listener's Digest (1954)	I'd like to see the record player!
Gill Sans SUBS 4th Nov 2023		Classical Item James Newby, Baritone · Joseph Middleton, Piano - Fallen To Dust (2023)	Baritone James Newby was a BBC "New Generation Artist": his records live up to that early promise, as in this Ivor Gurney song: [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 3rd Nov 2023		Classical Item The Choir Of Magdalen College, Oxford - The Sweet And Merry Month · Music For May Morning (2022)	Lay A Garland: [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 3rd Nov 2023		Classical Item The Joyful Company Of Singers - A Garland For Linda · A Commemoration Of The Life Of Linda McCartney (2000)	[YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 2nd Nov 2023		Classical Item Various Artists - Heavenly Voices (2010)	[YouTube Video]

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