Apr 16 Blog Schubert Choral Masterpiece Performed in Louisville Louisville Chorus is celebrating its 76th season. It is the longest-thriving most frequently performing choral arts group in the Commonwealth and neighboring states. The chorus’s next performance is Sunday, April 19, at 4 pm at St. Boniface Catholic Church. Classical 90.5’s Alan Brandt talked the the chorus’s music director, Daniel Spurlock, about the program which […] By Alan Brandt Apr 16 Blog Schubert Choral Masterpiece Performed in Louisville By Alan Brandt
Oct 03 Blog The English Violin Photo: A portrait of English violinist Albert Sammons. Edward Elgar’s Violin Sonata was one of three chamber works Elgar composed more or less concurrently towards the end of the First World War at Brinkwells, the country cottage the Elgars had rented near Fittleworth in Sussex. Although he had begun work on the String Quartet before […] By Alan Brandt Oct 03 Blog The English Violin By Alan Brandt
Jun 12 Blog English Piano Concertos The Piano Concerto in C by Ralph Vaughan Williams was written in 1926 and 1930-31 (movement 3). It premiered in February, 1933, by Harriet Cohen, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra directed by Sir Adrian Boult. The Finale was edited later and the work was published in 1936. The concerto was not well received at first, […] By Alan Brandt Jun 12 Blog English Piano Concertos By Alan Brandt
May 15 Blog English Symphonies Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 6 Arthur Bliss – Colour Symphony Edward Elgar – Symphony No. 2 William Walton – Symphony No. 2 Charles Stanford – Symphony No. 6 On An English Pastorale this week, we’ll explore several symphonies by Englishman written in the 20th century. William Walton (PHOTO) wrote his second symphony in 1959-60. […] By Alan Brandt May 15 Blog English Symphonies By Alan Brandt