Beauty Sleep

The guitar music of eminent 20th-century British composer Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) comprises three works, all of them written with the great guitarist Julian Bream in mind. Two of these are sets of songs for high voice, for which Britten’s vocal model was of course the famous English tenor – and Britten’s long-time personal and professional partner – Peter Pears.

Éternel oublié de l’histoire de la musique anglaise, John Eccles (1668-1735) en est pourtant un des maillons les plus importants. Appartenant à une grande famille de musiciens, membre des « Vingt-quatre violons du roi », il consacra le meilleur de sa production à l’opéra. Son chef-d’œuvre, Semele, emprunte les innovations françaises et italiennes tout en conservant la spécificité propre aux conceptions anglaises.Longtemps privée d’une édition moderne, la musique d’Eccles recommence à faire surface comme en témoigne cet enregistrement de concert de la reconstitution de sa Semele, captée en 2019 lors d’un concert donné à la chapelle du Trinity College de Cambridge, sous la direction et la réalisation de Julian Perkins, à la tête d’une douzaine d’excellents solistes et des forces conjointes de la Cambridge Handel Opera Company, du Cambridge Early Music et de l'Academy of Ancient Music.Cette Semele est restée dans quelques mémoires grâce à son livret utilisé par Haendel pour son dernier oratorio en 1743. Quant à l’opéra d’Eccles, il a fallu attendre 1972, soit deux-cent cinquante années après sa création, pour le réentendre dans une version incomplète. Cette nouvelle version est une véritable révélation et l’on ne peut qu’être étonné d’un si long oubli. L’oeuvre, d’une grande beauté, alterne les ressorts de la comédie et de la tragédie en décrivant l’humanité face aux Dieux qui représentent les miroirs de ses propres passions.

Witold Lutosfawski started regular study of the piano at the age of six and the violin when he was thirteen. He did not become a concert violinist, but he was a concert pianist. Witold Maliszewski, professor at the Warsaw Conservatory, who deeply influenced the young Lutostawski's musical thought, gave him lessons in composition, after his future pupil had presented him with the Poem for piano, written at the age of fifteen. When he was seventeen he wrote, under his teacher's supervision, his Dance of the Chimera for piano, the first work of his to receive public performance. As with a series of other pieces, written since1922, when Lutostawski was only nine, the two compositions mentioned were destroyed in 1944 during the Warsaw rising. The flames spared, however, the Piano Sonata of 1934 and the two-piano Wariacje na temat Paganiniego (Variations on a Theme of Paganini) of 1941. The post-war years brought other works for piano, Melodie ludowe (Folk Melodies) in 1946 and Bukoliki (Bucolics) in 1952 and some pedagogical pieces. The piano, the role of which in Lutostawski's chamber and orchestral works was often important, only appeared as a solo instrument in the Piano Concerto of 1988, except for the Variations on a Theme of Paganini, a composition for piano and orchestra, after the two-piano Variations, one of the most popular works in the piano duo repertoire and one of the most frequently performed of Lutostawski's compositions.

Funcrusher Plus is the 1997 debut album by Jaime Meline, Leonard Smythe, and Justin Ingleton. They are better known as El-P-, Mr. Len, and Bigg Jus and together they were better known as Company Flow. This was released on 28 July, 1997

Funcrusher Plus is the 1997 debut album by Jaime Meline, Leonard Smythe, and Justin Ingleton. They are better known as El-P-, Mr. Len, and Bigg Jus and together they were better known as Company Flow. This was released on 28 July, 1997

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