Tag: Divine Art

• Robin Stevens: Music for Cello and Piano

  This modern album is not so instantly accessible but despite its modern and sometimes austere sound it’s a long way from being difficult. The PR says that Stevens writes “stimulating and expressive” work influenced by everything from the music of the Romantic era to mathematics and the eclectic nature of the composer means that something […]

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  January 29, 2022

  Classical

  DDA 25217, Divine Art, Music for Cello and Piano, Robin Stevens

• Alfonso Soldano: Metamorphoses

  Soldano is professor of piano performance at the Giordano Conservatory in Foggia, Italy. He was awarded the International Gold Medal for best Italian artist in 2013 and has performed and given masterclasses all around Italy, and in Germany, Switzerland and Romania. So he’s good. This new album sees him transcribe 15 of Rachmaninov’s romantic songs […]

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  January 22, 2022

  Classical

  Alfonso Soldano, Divine Art, Metamorphoses

• Zeynep Ucbasaran: 1847, Liszt in Istanbul

  This lively and more-ish album of piano music consists of a selection of works from the 1847 Istanbul recitals of Franz Liszt.Lizst had arrived to entertain and was given a seven-octave piano by craftsman Sébastien Pierre Erard to play on while he was in what was then Constantinople. He played at the Royal Palace, the […]

  jerobear

  July 6, 2021

  Classical, Piano

  1847, Congleton Chronicle, dda 25213., Divine Art, Liszt in Istanbul, Review Corner, Zeynep Ucbasaran

• Philip Hartmann: Invocazione brillante, Organ music by Carson Cooman

  The lockdown could have stopped one-man organ machine Carson Cooman from composing, but it’s unlikely. He’s prolific and never stops. Normally we expect Erik Simmons to be playing Cooman’s work but for this it’s German organist Philip Hartmann, and he does a fine job. We used to find organ music hard going but repeated forced […]

  jerobear

  September 12, 2020

  Classical, Organ

  2 Nantucket Sketches, Arioso, Arioso cantabile, Cortege, Danza rustica, dda 25205, Diptych for New Life, Divine Art, Idyll, Intermezzo & Litany on the Joseph-Hymnus, Invocazione brillante, Invocazione brillante: Organ music by Carson Cooman, Litany, Lullaby, Musica da processione, Op. 1040, Op. 1205 (Version for Organ): I. Aubade, Op. 1205 (Version for Organ): II. Toccata, Op. 1217, Op. 1234: I. Hamburg March, Op. 1234: II. Pößneck Aria, Op. 1234: III. Ulm Toccata-Fanfare, Op. 1241, Op. 1243, Op. 1246: I. Praeambulum, Op. 1246: II. Ground, Op. 1246: III. Fantasia, Op. 1271, Op. 1298: No. 1, Op. 1298: No. 2, Op. 1301, Op. 1303, Op. 1305, Op. 186, Philip Hartmann, Praeludium in festo S. Philippi apostoli, Prelude on “Das ist köstlich”, Romanza, Sonatina No. 4, Suite in F Major

• Fitzwilliam String Quartet: Schubert String Quartets

  Rock bands attempt authenticity by doing unplugged or acoustic sessions; classical players do it by going back to basics. For this recording of Schubert’s famous quartets, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet used gut strings, and quizzed experts about playing techniques of the time the works were composed (1824). Lucy Russell’s Ferdinando Gagliano violin from 1789 is […]

  jerobear

  September 4, 2020

  Cello, Classical, Violin

  baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, D. 804 “Rosamunde”: I. Allegro ma non troppo, D. 804 “Rosamunde”: II. Andante, D. 804 “Rosamunde”: III. Minuetto. Allegretto, D. 804 “Rosamunde”: IV. Allegro moderato, D. 810: I. Allegro, D. 810: II. Andante con moto, D. 810: III. Scherzo. Allegro molto, D. 810: IV. Presto – Prestissimo, DDA25197, Divine Art, early, Fitzwilliam String Quartet, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Schubert String Quartets, soul, String Quartet in A Minor, String Quartet in D Minor

• Justin Badgerow: Reminiscences of Brazil

  This is an entertaining and varied programme of piano music. The Brazilian side gives the music life and a vivacity that’s a little unexpected but don’t expect it to sound very Latin American. It’s as much in the feel and passion as the rhythm. It’s robust, and powerfully played; there’s nothing of the polite salon […]

  jerobear

  September 2, 2020

  Classical, Piano

  baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Darius Milhaud, dda 25201, Divine Art, early, Francisco Paulo Mignone, funk, Heitor Villa-Lobos, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Justin Badgerow, music, pop, Reggae, Reminiscences of Brazil, Review Corner, reviews, Rio de Janeiro, rock, soul

• Jonathan Östlund: Voyages

  We always thought that if the fairies — and they do exist —wanted someone to play a gig, they’d get Östlund. He writes music that’s not wishy-washy or fey (the fey being a less pleasant race than the fairies to boot) but is ethereal and creates the atmosphere of being half-formed, in the sense of […]

  jerobear

  December 19, 2019

  Classical

  1. Ohne Satzbezeichnung, Air über ein Thema von Grieg, Air dans l’air, Après l’hiver, Autumnal Aire, baroque, Berceuse Bergamasque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Dacian Prayer, DDA 21232, Divine Art, early, Erlkönig, Etesian, Fantasie über Bachs Badinerie – (keine Angaben), Fantasie für kleine Trompete, Favola, funk, Gate of Northern Lights, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Jonathan Ostlund, L’al di là (Thema), Minuit et mistrale, Moonlight Weave, music, Nr. 1 Flowers of joy, Nr. 2 The Shepherdess, Oblivion, Ohne Satzbezeichnung, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Syrinx et Pan (Fantasie über Syrinx von Debussy), The Aura, The Stair, Twilight-wind and Mandolin, Veils of Night, Visions on the Wind, Voyages, Winter Cathedral – (keine Angaben)

• Diana Boyle … plays JS Bach

  This album of gentle piano music has a definite meditative quality to it. This is probably because of how Boyle prepares for one of her (reportedly infrequent) recordings, which involves going away to the top of a hill and thinking for years. The sleeve notes say she has been doing this for 25 years; she […]

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  July 29, 2019

  Classical, Piano

  … plays JS Bach, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, DDA25190., Diana Boyle, Divine Art, early, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul

• Cuatra Puntos: Jaipur to Cairo

  There’s world music and there’s world music: from Paul Simon’s world-tinged pop to Plant/Page roping in ethnic musicians to make polished albums or Tinariwen using western instruments for traditional songs. Then there are musicians from wherever playing traditional instruments. We’re fond of gnawa from Morocco, two-string guitars (that means real string) and qaraqueb — metal […]

  jerobear

  July 5, 2019

  Classical, Violin, World

  Aaron Packard, Aksak, Allan Ballinger, Andrew OConnor, Annie Trépanier, Armenian Love Song, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Charles Huang, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Cuatra Puntos, Divine Art, early, funk, Hazin, I. Arghawan, II. Merawi Keja Keja Yaraman, III. Sabzina Rang, In Memory of a Lost Beloved, Jaipur to Cairo, Jaunpuri (Morning Song), jazz, Jem Condliffe, Kevin Bishop, Love Drunk, Mohamed Shams, MSV28589, music, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, Rhapsody for Piano and Strings, rock, soul, Steve Larson, Ten Variations, The Oldest Song in the World, Zand

• Eitenne Cutajar: Mdina Music For Horn

  This is a new recording of (as the name suggests) music for horn by Etienne Cutajar, featuring violinist Carmine Lauri and pianist John Reid. The music comes from Beethoven, Brahms and Richard Strauss as well as modern composers Heinz Holliger, Jesmond Grixti and Jörg Widman; the work Mdina is by Grixti. Cutajar is principal horn […]

  jerobear

  May 29, 2019

  Classical, Horn

  Adagio Mesto, Air Für Horn, Allegro Con Brio, Allegro Moderato, Andante, Andante for Horn and Piano, baroque, Blues, Brenddwyd, brother, Carmine Lauri, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Cyddaredd, DDA25189., Divine Art, early, Eitenne Cutajar Mdina, Finale, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, John Reid, Mdina, music, Music For Horn, Op. 86a, Poco Adagio, pop, Quasi Andante, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Rondo: Allegro, Scherzo. Allegro, soul