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Recording Samples (pianist, composer)
Recording samples: pianist
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Johannes Brahms, Intermezzo No. 2 in A Major Op. 118 No. 2 (CD: “A Few of our Favourite Things,” pianists James Wright and Elena Ilin, released December 2014)
Alexander Alabiev, Mazurka in C Minor (CD: “A Few of our Favourite Things,” pianists James Wright and Elena Ilin, released December 2014)
Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne Op. 32 No. 1 in B Major (CD: “A Few of our Favourite Things,” pianists James Wright and Elena Ilin, released December 2014)
Claude Debussy, “Claire de Lune,” from Suite bergamasque (CD: “A Few of our Favourite Things,” pianists James Wright and Elena Ilin, released December 2014)
Gustav Mahler (arr. Otto Singer), “Adagietto, Sehr Langsam,” from Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (CD: “A Few of our Favourite Things,” pianists James Wright and Elena Ilin, released December 2014)
Recording samples: collaborative pianist
Grigoraş Ionică Dinicu, “The Lark” (“Ciocârlia”/”Die Lerche”) – with Romanian-Canadian violin virtuoso Ioan Harea (CD “Ballade”)
John Wall Callcott’s Early Erlking
“Der Erlkönig” (1782), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s haunting poem about an evil spirit that haunts the Thuringian Black Forest, is arguably the grand-daddy of all literary ballads about seductive and malevolent goblins. This is a recording of a little-known English part-song setting of Matthew “Monk” Lewis’s translation of Goethe’s poem, by composer John Wall Callcott (1766-1821). Callcott’s Erlking pre-dates Schubert’s famous 1815 setting by nearly twenty years, and offers some valuable insights into both early Goethe reception and the late 18th-century Gothic craze that was sweeping Britain during the 1790s.
Featured performers: Doreen Taylor-Claxton (soprano –child); Kevin Hassell (countertenor – father); Gary Dahl (baritone – Erlking); James Wright (piano).