Violin Concerto; Double Concerto

1977 ◽  
Vol 118 (1616) ◽  
pp. 826
Author(s):  
Robert Anderson ◽  
Delius ◽  
Menuhin ◽  
Tortelier ◽  
RPO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Double Concerto ◽  
Violin Concerto

Violin Concerto; Double Concerto

1970 ◽  
Vol 111 (1526) ◽  
pp. 395
Author(s):  
Robert Anderson ◽  
Brahms ◽  
Oistrakh ◽  
Rostropovich ◽  
Cleveland Orchestra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Double Concerto ◽  
Violin Concerto

Benjamin Lees: Quo Vadis?

Tempo ◽  
1990 ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Bret Johnson
Keyword(s):  
String Quartet ◽  
String Quartets ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Music ◽  
Double Concerto ◽  
Violin Concerto ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Quo Vadis ◽  
Sound Spectrum

Fifteen years ago, Nicolas Slonimsky wrote of Benjamin Lees in Tempo: ‘At a time when so many otherwise valiant composers are star-crossed and complain of malign neglect, Benjamin Lees rises “in excelsis” in the musical firmament’. And so he has continued since, with many commissions and numerous major works to his credit, matched by frequent performances in the United States. It is a time that has seen the creation of his Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, a set of Variations for Piano and Orchestra, a Concerto for Brass Choir and Orchestra, a Double Concerto for Piano, Cello and Orchestra, at least four other orchestral compositions of substantial scale, and the Third and Fourth String Quartets. All of these have contributed to his continuing high profile in the American musical scene. When one surveys Lees's entire corpus of music over the last four decades, one sees an impressive range of works, achievements and awards. Such pieces as the Violin Concerto (1958), Third Symphony (1969) and Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (1965), all commercially recorded, stand out as landmarks not only of his own music but of postwar American music generally. His style has continued to evolve in recent years and whilst his hallmark is still his adherence to form and structure, he has become more concerned with orchestral sonority and, without becoming explicitly programmatic, practises his art within an ever-widening sound spectrum and colouristic palette. He has always possessed a strongly individual personality, and the ‘Lees Sound’ is unquestionably unique, even through his exposition and development of musical ideas-and the technique of continual evolution which he favours at present-derive, at source, from his most important early musical teacher: George Antheil.

First Performances

Tempo ◽  
1990 ◽  
pp. 21-38
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
List Type ◽  
Double Concerto ◽  
Violin Concerto ◽  
Women In Music

‘Clarissa’ at the Coliseum David GallagherCarter's Violin Concerto in San Francisco David SchiffSchweinitz's ‘Patmos’ in Munich Hans-Klaus JungheinrichAldeburgh 1990 Anthony BurtonElision Ensemble, Melbourne, Australia Richard ToopBrighton Festival 1990 Guy RickardsCheltenham: Bainbridge's Double Concerto Richard Leigh HarrisNew York: Women in Music and Soviet Contemporaries Claire PolinTwo Choral Premières James Reid Baxter

Béla Bartók’s 1907 Violin Concerto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja Usarek-Topper
Keyword(s):  
Violin Concerto

Violin Concerto

1980 ◽  
Vol 121 (1652) ◽  
pp. 633
Author(s):  
Paul Griffiths ◽  
Berg ◽  
Perlman ◽  
Boston SO ◽  
Ozawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Violin Concerto

BBC Proms 2014: Gabriel Prokofiev and Brett Dean

Tempo ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (271) ◽  
pp. 74-75
Author(s):  
Toby Young
Keyword(s):  
Violin Concerto

A traditional four-movement violin concerto might seem a departure from the grime-influenced crossover language of the composer of the infamous Concerto for Turntables (given its Proms premiere in 2011). However, in many ways Gabriel Prokofiev's first Violin Concerto, commissioned by the BBC for Daniel Hope and the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, is a highly satisfactory step in the composer's artistic trajectory.

Anna Clyne The Seamstress, Barbican Hall, London; Anna Clyne This Lunar Beauty, Wigmore Hall, London

Tempo ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (277) ◽  
pp. 89-90
Author(s):  
Robert Stein
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Violin Concerto ◽  
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

‘Old mythologies’ have been important for some time to Anna Clyne, and they come into play again in two of her most recent works: the violin concerto The Seamstress and her brief Auden setting, This Lunar Beauty, for soprano and ensemble. The young British composer (b. 1980) has for many years been a resident of New York; she studied with Julia Wolfe in Manhattan and since 2010 has been the composer in association with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Violin Concerto

Notes ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 815
Author(s):  
Tom Cleman ◽  
Henri Lazarof
Keyword(s):  
Violin Concerto
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