The music of Goffredo Petrassi may not be widely recognized in the UK today, yet he stands as one of the most important and impactful Italian composers from the mid-20th century. Born in 1904,just a few months after Luigi Dallapiccola,Petrassi initially embraced a neoclassical style in his early compositions. However, following 1945, he began to ...
‘Chromaticism is a rare and exotic bloom in Western tune,” writes Exaudi’s director James Weeks in his wonderfully complete essay in his crew’s disc of gradual 16th-century choral works. “It flowers handiest when conditions allow: when a harmonic conception exists that might perhaps perhaps accommodate it, and extra importantly when composers absorb the desire to ...
Long earlier than he grew to change into a conductor, Andrew Davis was once an organist. As a baby he had played the organ at the Palace theatre, Watford, and within the 1960s studied at the Royal School of Song earlier than turning into organ scholar at King’s School, Cambridge; he began his official occupation ...