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Monday January 10th


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220 completed for December

 

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Arts in Residence Programme 2004-5

 


BOOK REVIEWS

Malcolm Arnold - Rogue Genius: For anyone wanting to get to know and understand Britain's greatest living composer, up close and in intimate detail, this illuminating book now takes pride of place: it is absolutely essential reading.The Life and Music of Britain’s most misunderstood composer by Anthony Meredith and Paul Harris [PSe]

British Music: I enjoyed reading this Journal and am resolved to ensure I catch up with it annually from now on. I liked the balance between detailed musical discussion and entertaining biography. The Journal of the British Music Society Volume 26 2004

GERALD FINZI: Finzians who may have joined the ‘select’ since 1997 should be reminded of this book and should order it now. It remains uniquely valuable. A Bio-Bibliography by John C. Dressler Greenwood Press 1997 xiii, 200pp £55.50 Hardback ISBN 0 313 28693 0.[RB]

Alan RAWSTHORNE - An essential purchase for Rawsthorne enthusiasts, for those wanting total documentation of the first golden age of the British film industry and other outright enthusiasts of the genre and era A Bio-Bibliography By John C. Dressler Music Bio-Bibliographies No. 97 (ISSN: 0742-6968) Praeger Publishers. Westport, Conn. 2004. 382 pages LC 2004053431. ISBN 0-313-30589-7 $99.95 [RB]

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Gabriella Benackova (sop), Ales Briscein (ten), Ivan Kusnjer (bar) Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Valek live recording Prague Spring Festival 2002 UP 0065-2 231 (CD) New release Februaury 2004 Review
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Frank Bridge: String Quartet No 4; Alan Bush Suite of Six op.81; Henry Purcell Chacony in G minor Bochmann String Quartet

 

New ARTICLES for this month

MusicWeb Reviewer’s Log: October-December 2004 Reviewer: Patrick C Waller

OPINION OR FACT? Dr David C F Wright

Welsh National Opera’s New Home The Wales Millennium Centre opens in Cardiff (BK)

JOHN BULLER - Obituary - Martin Anderson

Elsewhere on MusicWeb

Milken Archive of American Jewish Music

View from The Audience an occasional series

In fact hers is a voice that when she hits the high E flat staccatos (which she does with uncanny accuracy let it be said) has been compared to that of a whistling kettle. That’s not unkind criticism, either. Jon Woolf on Maria Galvany

The State Opera of South Australia's Der Ring des Nibelungen - Australia's first, and seen in its entirety in a single week - premiered at the Adelaide Festival between 16 - 22 November. Read the review here.

On Seen and Heard this week, you can read reviews of Mahler’s Fifth in Philadelphia conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder in China with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Gérard Grisey’s Vortex Temporum from New York. There is also an interview with Adrianne Pieczonka and the first review of the uncut version of Ken Russell’s 1971 film The Devils, scored by Peter Maxwell Davies.

 

SACD, DSD, DTS, AC3, DVD-Audio, SuperAudio confused? Let Paul Shoemaker put you right

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