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The Year in statistics......

28/12/2013

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It's a useful exercise assessing a year's work from an objective point of view. If, like me, you perform for a living you will know that that old motto "you are only as good as your last concert" might be true but it has little bearing on the number of dates that are in your diary at the beginning of each year. The past year has, at it happens, been around my average for the number of concerts and much better than average   for  studio  recordings   (and whatever  people are  saying  about the apparently desperate state of classical music, CDs are still being produced in large quantities!)

Concerts - 45
Recordings - 7
Arrangements - 20
Adjudications - 3
New larger works added to repertoire - 20
Dozens of new smaller works
As well as my regular partners I also worked (either as performer or arranger) with the following for the first time (and hopefully not the last!) this year.....

Raphaël Mouterde (producer)
Nick Korth (Principal Horn in BBCSO)
Richard Harvey (composer)
Alisa Weilerstein (Cello)
Tim Jackson (Principal Horn in RLPO)
Joseph Calleja (Tenor)

Christian Poltera (Cello)
Michael Ponder (producer)
Robert Max (Cello)
Victor Reyes (composer)
Stéphane Tétreault (Cello)
Stephanie Marshall (Mezzo-Soprano)
Nobuko Imai (Viola)
Frans Helmerson (Cello)

Yuja Wang (piano)
Leonidas Kavakos (Violin)

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New arrangement for star duo....

23/12/2013

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On 21st December Decca asked me for a new arrangement of the Brahms Lullaby for leonidas kavakos and yuja wang to record on their forthcoming CD of the three Brahms Sonatas. "Of course!" I replied but then I 
discovered that the recording was on Boxing Day. Having firmly switched off for Christmas I might have had second thoughts - but not for those two! The arrangement was duly delivered on 23rd and recorded in Germany on the 26th. How's that for a turn around?  
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Top of the charts.....

18/12/2013

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Videos of the "Simply Strad" concert have been posted on Youtube. Robert Max plays 2 movements from Rachmaninoff's cello sonata here ......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maWjpanOXTs and Christian Poltera plays Dvorak Sonatina and Rachmaninoff Vocalise here....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Zl8DoDLEo
 
"A Tale of Two Cellos" - John Lenehan's latest disc with the Lloyd Webbers finishes 2013 at number one in the specialist classical music chart.
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Alexander Von Zemlinsky

16/12/2013

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An informative Wikipedia article here....  
Lately I have been entranced by the music of Zemlinsky (1871-1942) - a figure I knew little about until I began working on the recording (just completed) of his Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano op. 3. My colleagues Emma Johnson and Frans Helmerson both shared my enthusiasm for this little known work and I have been listening to more of his music recently on spotify - complete String Quartets, Operas, Symphonies - they are all there - what a fantastic facility that site is! I recommend spending a while exploring music by this under-rated Composer. I doubt  you will be disappointed. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Zemlinsky
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