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Extractions: J. S. Bach, Toccatas Katharine Durran , piano Duration: 1.0519 Metier Records MSV CD2001 When I received this CD, I must admit I'd never heard of Katharine Durran, and the music too, the Toccatas of Bach, were only vaguely known to me. They are not often heard today, which is a pity for the breadth and freedom of Bach's musical thought is inspirational, as is the sheer delight of the virtuosic, improvisatory character of these beautiful pieces. They are entertaining without being superficial, and free without being pointless and shambolic; in the Toccatas, Bach allows his imagination to roam free while at the same time his intellect retains full structural control: there is no hint, at least to my ears, of any disunity. In a recent television interview, Alfred Brendel has defined the masterpiece as a piece "which combines the incombineable", and while I have one or two reservations about that idea, I can certainly see what he means, and by that definition the Toccatas are indeed masterpieces in their own right. Performing them presents many problems. The juxtaposition of ideas sometimes diametrically opposed within a single piece requires very sharp musical reflexes, and the emotional range of the pieces is enormous. They strike the listener as being composed of a series of musical sections, or movements, which oscillate between free passages - often pathetic - and stricter contrapuntal or fugal sections, contrasts which require careful handling.
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Extractions: Alison Smart was appointed to the BBC Singers in 1996, and has acquired unrivalled experience of a vast range of new music through working with the worlds greatest composers and conductors. After studying Classics at Clare College, Cambridge, she took postgraduate diplomas at the RNCM and TCM and won the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Competition. Her extensive solo career includes concerts, operas and broadcasts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and at the Salzburg Festival, under such conductors as Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Andrew Davis, Jane Glover and Stephen Cleobury. Repertoire has ranged from Telemann and Bach to the latest compositions. In addition to Peripheral Visions she has recorded a number of discs including Messiah with the English String Orchestra (Nimbus), songs by Spohr (Naxos) and Ausencias de Dolcinea by Rodrigo (EMI). She currently studies with Marie Hayward Segal. Fumi A remarkable young singer-songwriter whose majestic contralto and idiosyncratic readings of standards and modern jazz compositions create a unique sound. Alongside the jazz classics by such greats as Gershwin and Cole Porter, Fumi writes her own songs using instruments from around the world (tablas and didgeridoos to name a couple) producing music that captivates and seduces but with a twist that keeps you listening. She has recently been signed to METIER JAZZ and is releasing her first album this Summer with Joss Peach, bassist Tom Mason and drummer Chris Vatalaro.
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Extractions: New French Song on the South Bank How often do you get twenty British premières in one concert in one evening? Probably very rarely, if ever. Congratulations then to soprano Alison Smart and pianist Katharine Durran for devising such a fascinating programme under the title New French Song . For their Purcell Room recital on 13 July they commissioned twenty British composers to set music to any French literature of their choice from the past 200 years. The selected texts covered a wide range of writers from the Romantics and Symbolists right through to the postmodern era; one of the composers, Edward McGuire, chose to set his own text to music. The result was a medley of songs on the subjects of life, death, memory, youth, the Tour de France and even a rather bizarre dinner menu! What was very interesting about this concert was each composer's personal response to the imagery and language within their chosen text and whether they chose to pay homage to the French harmonic language and textures of the past or to go a different route. Gabriel Jackson's setting of A la Mémoire de Claude Debussy by Jean Cocteau was the most overt in its reference to Debussy's piano music and harmonic language of once-forbidden parallel fourths and fifths. Edward Cowie nodded towards Debussy and Messaien in his use of birdsong, while Tarik O'Regan and John Casken were particularly interesting in their impressionistic textures and colouring. Otherwise these song-settings were disparate in their huge variety of compositional ideas and methods.
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Alison Smart (Soprano) - Short Biography Alison s partner in recitals is the pianist katharine durran. Their debut soloalbum is entitled Peripheral Visions British music for voice and piano http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Smart-Alison.htm
Extractions: The English soprano, Alison Smart, studied Classics at Clare College, Cambridge, where she was Senior Choral Scholar. She took postgraduate diplomas at the Royal Northern College of Music in 1995 and at Trinity College of Music, London in 1996. She won the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Competition (1996) and was a finalist in the Great Elm Vocal competition (1996). Alison Smart has performed with many of the best British ensembles and conductors. In February 1999 she was the soprano soloist in Tippett's oratorio The Vision of St Augustine with the BBC Symphony Orchestra directed by Sir Andrew Davis. Later that year she sang the J.S. Bach Magnificat BWV 243 ) at St John's Smith Square with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment directed by Sir Roger Norrington ; in the summer of 2001 she sang the Third Herd Girl in Grieg's Peer Gynt for the Proms, BBC TV and at the Salzburg Festival. In October 2001 she sang the role of Tiny in Britten's opera Paul Bunyan at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, in a concert performance with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth . Work abroad includes a lecture recital in Canberra and a live broadast of unaccompanied music by Nono for Swiss radio.
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Extractions: All amateur orchestral and jazz instrumentalists are welcome to join the Cambridge Concert Orchestra. We play a wide variety of music from small classical suites to lighter music and jazz. We rehearse on Wednesday evenings in term time and give approximately 9 concerts a year. For more information on vacancies within the different sections, see our website and contact the Membership Secretary.
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George Nicholson As a pianist, he is a member of the chamber groups Nomos and Triple Echo and Alison Smart, soprano; katharine durran, piano (Metier MSV CD 92025) http://composers21.com/compdocs/nicholsg.htm
Extractions: he Living Composers Project Nicholson George (b. 1949, County Durham). British composer of mostly chamber and vocal works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere; he is also active as a conductor and pianist. Dr. Nicholson studied composition with David Blake and Bernard Rands at York University, where he received his DMus in 1979. As a pianist, he is a member of the chamber groups Nomos and Triple Echo and regularly gives recitals with his wife, soprano Jane Ginsborg, for whom he has written many works. As a conductor, he has conducted numerous new music ensembles in the UK. He taught as a lecturer in music and served as director of the composition department at Keele University from 1988-95. He has been Senior Lecturer in Composition at Sheffield University since 1996, where he has also served as chair of its music department since 2003. CONTACT INFORMATION E-mail address: g.nicholson@sheffield.ac.uk Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/music/staff/gn/gnhomepage.html SELECT LIST OF WORKS STAGE The Arrival of the Poet in the City (melodrama, text by Christopher Logue), speaker, 7 players, 1982-83
James Black Management: Discography HELEN CRAYFORD, pianist British Fantasies American Dreams With Nancy Ruffer (flute)Guild Music GMCD 7230 With katharine durran (piano) Metier CD 92025 http://www.jamesblackmanagement.com/disc.html
