The London Suite by British composer Eric Coates was completed in 1933. Movements entitled Covent Garden, Westminster and Knightsbridge. Coates London Again Suite was completed in 1936. Movements entitled Oxford Street, Langham Place and Mayfair. Coates conducted a recording of the work in 1936 for Columbia Masterworks. Coates lived from 1886 to 1957. He was basically a light music composer and also a violist. One of his most popular pieces was By The Sleepy Lagoon. We placed all these works on our radio stream at classical music . network.
British composer John Ireland (above) lived between 1879 and 1962. He composed The Downland Suite for band in 1932. We heard on our Internet radio stream an arrangement for strings by Geoffrey Bush (below) who was one of Ireland's students. Bush lived from 1920 to 1995. The suite is a pictorial montage of Ireland's Sussex Downs area of England.
On the playlist two of Max Bruch's most popular violin works performed by violinist Itzhak Perlman. The violin concerto No 1 in g, op 26 was completed in 1866 and first performed in April of that year. There were several revisions years later. Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, op 46, was completed in 1880.
Perlman bio / Perlman on record
Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op 40. A Hero's Life, composed in 1898 in the Bavarian Alps. Performed by The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conducting. This was Strauss eighth major tone poem and it contains musical notations from several of his earlier works.
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5 in e flat major. Op 73. Performance by Helene Grimaud with Paavo Jarvi conducting Frankfurt Radio Sinfonia. The Emporer concerto was composed between 1809 and 1811 in Vienna and dedicated to Beethoven's patron and pupil Archduke Rudolph of Austria. First Performance in Vienna with the Archduck as soloist. The epitthet EMPORER was coined by the English publisher of the concerto.
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Lang Lang was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China on 14 June 1982. His father Lang Guoren is a member of the Manchu Niohuru clan, which brought forth a long line of Qing Empresses. The elder Lang is also a musician; he plays the traditional Chinese stringed instrument erhu. At the age of two, Lang watched the Tom and Jerry episode The Cat Concerto, which features Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Lang has said it was this—his first contact with Western classical music—that motivated him to learn the piano. He began piano lessons with Professor Zhu Ya-Fen at age three. At the age of five, he won first place at the Shenyang Piano Competition and performed his first public recital.
Lang has performed in major cities and was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and some top American orchestras. A Chicago Tribune music critic called him "the biggest, most exciting young keyboard talent I have encountered in many a year of attending piano recitals". Lang has been praised by musicians and critics around the world—the conductor Jahja Ling remarked, "Lang Lang is special because of his total mastery of the piano... (PHOTO Lang Lang in radio studio with blog editor R Alan Campbell) WIKIPEDIA / LANG LANG ON DISCS
One of the most prominent American singers to achieve lasting fame and success in opera, Peters is noted for her 35-year association with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York, among the longest such associations between a singer and a company in opera. She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1998.
VIDEO: The outstanding American soprano Roberta Peters (Bronx born, Roberta Peterman) in a series of clips from some of her most memorable operatic performances.
