Ferdinand Ries
Ferdinand Ries-G minor Sonata Op 87 PSS with Aaron Shorr Concert Recording-London 2003 Engineer/Producer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) Ries 1,Ries 2,Ries 3
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Bartok-Duos
January 8, 2010
A taste of the Bartok 44 Duos Performance at Wilton’s Music Hall 14-12-2008 PSS and Mihailo Trandafilovski Bartok 21Bartok 23 Recording courtesy of Colin Still (Optic Nerve)
Responding to Jim Aitchison
January 8, 2010
After Jim Aitchison, Spring 2008 This is an unreleased recording of Jim Aitchison’s response to Peter Randall-Page’s astonishing piece for the Eden project. Jim Aitchison – ‘Core’ (Two outtakes…) Violin-PSS (Joachim 1698) Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (astounding sounds)
Soundbox
January 7, 2010
SOUNDBOX! 4 -5 times a term I present SOUNDBOX, in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Music, London. These events take place in the inspiring settings of the String or Piano Galleries. surrounded by the living instruments of the Royal Academy’s collections and temporary exhibits. SOUNDBOX is open to the public, and admission [...]
Hinterlight & Trajectories
January 5, 2010
Jim Aitchison-Hinterlight & Trajectories At the end of 2009, the Kreutzer Quartet recorded two major works-his ‘Trajectories’, which is based on the explosive canvases of John Hoyland, and ‘Hinterlight’, which was commissioned for the tremendous exhibit of Mark Rothko at Tate Modern in 2008. Here is an outtake from the recording sessions-the first 70 bars [...]
Samuel Wesley-Sonata
January 2, 2010
Samuel Wesley- F major Concertante Sonata for Violin and Piano KO508 PSS with Aaron Shorr-Piano Live recording-London May 2004 Engineer: Jonathan Haskell (astounding sounds)
Antoine Reicha
January 1, 2010
Quartet Op 48 No 1-Menuetto Reicha Op 48 Kreutzer Quartet-PSS, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde Live performance: London February 2008 Engineer: Colin Still (Optic Nerve) The most influential musician in post-Revolutionary Paris was the Bohemian-born Antoine Reicha (1770-1836), Beethoven’s exact contemporary and close friend. As teenagers, the two had been colleagues in the [...]
Nicholas Mori-Prelude
December 31, 2009
Nicholas Mori-Prelude-1839 Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Recorded 2005) Engineer/Producer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) Viotti’s greatest British pupil was the young Nicholas Mori (1797-1839), who would become the first professor of violin at the new Royal Academy of Music. Despite the fact that he was the pre-eminent violinist in London, active as a teacher, soloist, chamber musician, publisher [...]
Michael Alec Rose-Solo Works
December 31, 2009
Michael Alec Rose-Urstoff LIVE World Premiere-Nashville March 2008 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Aaron Shorr-Piano The composer writes: "Urstoff" was one of the many technical terms the young Primo Levi came to admire in his apprenticeship as a chemist and poet. In his memoir THE PERIODIC TABLE, Levi recalls his sense of wonder (searingly unironic, even in [...]
Penderecki-1st and 2nd Quartets
December 31, 2009
Penderecki-1st Quartet Kreutzer Quartet PSS, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde St Bartholomew the Great 2008 Engineer: Jonathan Haskell www.astoundingsounds.co.uk (NB uploaded in 2 tracks-though Quartet in one movement) Track02Track03 Penderecki 2nd Quartet Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton 2005
January 8, 2010