Colin Clarke

Dame Janet Baker leads English Chamber Orchestra’s great tribute to Raymond Leppard

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Live from London – ECO @ 60: A Tribute to Raymond Leppard: Lauren Lodge-Campbell (soprano), Bethany Horak-Hallett (mezzo), Stephanie Gonley (violin), Harry Winstanley (flute), John Roberts (oboe), Neil Brough (trumpet). English Chamber Orchestra / James Sherlock (conductor). Introduced by Dame Janet Baker. Live-streamed from Cadogan Hall, London, 7.10.2020. (CC)

ECO @ 60: A Tribute to Raymond Leppard at Cadogan Hall

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Composer Alexey Shor in conversation with Colin Clarke

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Alexey Shor (c) ALIKHAN

It is an exciting time for composer Alexey Shor. I personally first came across his music on a Delos release entitled Classical Music Stars in Malta in which four of his chamber pieces (Farewell Nocturne; Addio; King Matt the First; Coming of Age) shared disc space with music by Ilya Dimov, Khachaturian, Joseph Vella, and the fabulous Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia. Then, the superstar violinist Maxim Vengerov, no less, performed Shor’s St. Elmo Barcarolle at the Barbican in January this year under the baton of a conductor who is a tireless champion of Shor’s music, Sergey Smbatyan (review); and Vengerov’s encore, after Bruch’s First Violin Concerto and Ravel’s Tzigane, was another work by Shor: his Elegy for violin and orchestra.

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