"Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio is a live album by Paul McCartney released in 1991 and his first major foray into classical music. Composed in collaboration with Carl Davis to commemorate The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's 150th anniversary, the project received a large amount of media attention upon its unveiling in June 1991. This recording was captured at the oratorio's dress rehearsal and premiere at Liverpool Cathedral with McCartney in attendance and features noted professional classical singers Kiri Te Kanawa, Jerry Hadley, Sally Burgess and Willard White re-enacting the roles in the oratorio. The recording was engineered"
"composer Carl Davis, producing ""Liverpool Oratorio"". The performance featured opera singers Kiri Te Kanawa, Sally Burgess, Jerry Hadley and Willard White, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the choir of Liverpool Cathedral. Reviews were negative. ""The Guardian"" was especially critical, describing the music as ""afraid of anything approaching a fast tempo"", and adding that the piece has ""little awareness of the need for recurrent ideas that will bind the work into a whole"". The paper published a letter McCartney submitted in response in which he noted several of the work's faster tempos and added, ""happily, history shows that many"
"works, including the Piano Concerto commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra for the 30th birthday of Princess Diana in 1991, in which he also featured as soloist; the Violin Concerto to celebrate the centenary of the City of Leeds in 1993; the cantata to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations in 1995, performed in the presence of the Royal Family in Westminster Hall; and the large-scale choral/orchestral work ""Benedictus"", championed by Sir David Willcocks and the Bach Choir, which was given its London premiere in Westminster Cathedral in 1989 with Cardinal Basil Hume as narrator, and which has been"
"over 6,000 of the West Coast Premier of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio, conducted by William Hall. The Performance was held at The Orange County Performing Arts Center and featured the Master Chorale of Orange County, the Master Chorale Orchestra and the Boys of the Costa Mesa children’s Chorus, and Stern as violin soloist. Stern recorded two albums performing on the 1697 'Molitor Stradivarius.' The first album, 'The Road to Love,"" is a collection of popular songs performed with the London City Symphony and recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, conducted by Alan Williams. The second, ""The Road to Love II:"
"Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Gothenburg Symphony and the Singapore Symphony. He also performed the Haydn D major, Tchaikovsky ""Rococo Variations"" and Strauss' ""Don Quixote"" at the Royal Festival Hall (with Sir Simon Rattle, broadcast live on the BBC) and the Hollywood Bowl (with Esa-Pekka Salonen). He was the first Briton to win the New England Conservatory/Piatigorsky Artist Award, in 1990. He won the major cello prizes at the Royal College of Music and won the Suggia gift and two Countess of Munster Awards. He has recorded 26 CDs with the"
"""The Dream of Gerontius"", Op. 38, many times since it first performed it at the Queen's Hall, London, on 18 May 1931, conducted by Stanford Robinson. A performance of the oratorio was given in the sixth-century St Irene's Church as part of the 1997 Istanbul International Music Festival. Leonard Slatkin conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with mezzo-soprano Jean Rigby, tenor John Aler and baritone Alan Opie. A special performance of the oratorio was given from St Paul's Cathedral on 26 November 1997 to mark the 75th anniversary of the BBC. Andrew Davis conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and"
"Noel Rawsthorne Noel Rawsthorne (born 24 December 1929) is a British organist and composer. He was a pupil of Fernando Germani in Italy and Harold Dawber at the Royal Manchester College. He became Organist of Liverpool Cathedral from 1955 to 1980. While there, he composed many original choral works, such as the ""Festive Eucharist"" (1978) which is still sung regularly by churches across the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool. Until 1993, Rawsthorne was Senior Lecturer in Music at (formerly) S. Katharine's College, Liverpool (now Liverpool Hope University). He received an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Liverpool and his"
"by Gibson, and to Agnes Jones, who died in 1868, by Pietro Tenerani. There is also a statue of William Huskisson by Gibson that was formerly in the Custom House. The Oratory, Liverpool The Oratory stands to the north of Liverpool Cathedral in Merseyside, England. It was originally the mortuary chapel to St James Cemetery, and houses a collection of 19th-century sculpture and important funeral monuments as part of the Walker Art Gallery. It is a Grade I listed building in the National Heritage List for England. The Oratory was built in 1829, and used for funeral services before burials"
"good pieces of music were not liked by the critics of the time so I am content to ... let people judge for themselves the merits of the work."" ""The New York Times"" was slightly more generous, stating, ""There are moments of beauty and pleasure in this dramatic miscellany ... the music's innocent sincerity makes it difficult to be put off by its ambitions"". Performed around the world after its London premiere, the ""Liverpool Oratorio"" reached number one on the UK classical chart, ""Music Week"". In 1991, McCartney performed a selection of acoustic-only songs on ""MTV Unplugged"" and released a"
"the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, released by Chandos Records ALWYN: Pastoral Fantasia recorded with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Lloyd-Jones released by Naxos Records and Best of British 20th Century Classics, Live from Royal Albert Hall during BBC Proms 2007 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis released by Deutsche Grammophon DG Concerts. Other Recordings Include Erwin Schulhoff: String Sextet Op. 45 Spectrum Concerts Berlin released by Naxos Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae with the Ayriel Ensemble on Ayriel Classics Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi with Northern Sinfonia and Richard Hickox. Takemitsu: A"
"Te Deum (Jenkins) Te Deum is a sacred choral composition by Karl Jenkins, written in 2008. It is an extended setting of the in Latin. Te Deum is often performed together with the composer's Gloria. Jenkins composed the work on a commission by the Liverpool Welsh Choral Union in 2008 when Liverpool was European Capital of Culture. The text chosen for the celebration is the Latin , an early Christian hymn also known as the Ambrosian Hymn. The composer conducted the premiere on 30 November 2008, with the choir and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Philharmonic Hall. A"
"high proportion of the recordings listed below are in these categories. Sargent's choral work was chiefly with the two choirs of which he was the principal conductor, the Royal Choral Society and the Huddersfield Choral Society. For his recordings with the latter, Sargent usually conducted the Liverpool Philharmonic (from 1957, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic); the pairing of the choir and orchestra became so familiar that the portmanteau word ""Hudderspool"" was coined for it. Sargent's choral recordings included two versions of Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"", four of Handel's ""Messiah"", two of Mendelssohn's ""Elijah"", and complete sets of Coleridge-Taylor's ""Hiawatha's Wedding"
"all for Jana Frenklova), ""Trilogy"" (1992), ""Musica Aeterna"" (1997) and ""Sereno"" (2004), organ works including ""Mutations II"" (1971), ""Momentum"" (1977) and ""Esultante"" (1977 - these last two for Gillian Weir), ""Dreams, Dances and Lullabies"" for harp (1990), ""Silentia Noctis"" for high voice and piano (1989), and many choral works, notably ""Carmen Paschale"" (1981), ""Hymnus Ante Somnum"" (1985), ""Sequentia ad Sancte Michaele"" (1985), ""Westminster Mass"" (1990 - for Martin Neary), ""Recordatio"" (1999) and a sequence of eleven ""Sacred Chants"" (2005). Lewis's music is characterised by rhythmic energy and harmonic complexity alternating with extreme stillness; latterly his music has tended towards greater"
"a weekly classical music programme for Liverpool's independent local radio (Radio City) for the first nine years of its existence. Philip Duffy Philip Edmund Duffy KSG, GRSM, ARMCM, PGCE, Hon FGCM, FHEA, FRSCM (born 1943) was the Master of the Music at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral from 1966 to 1996, and lectured at Liverpool Hope University from 2000 to 2013. He is the founder and director of the Liverpool Bach Collective. For over thirty six years Philip Duffy was associated with the music of Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King; for most of them he was Master of the"
"several pieces written for youth orchestras including Ring of Light (2005), A Star Danced (2009) and Variations on a Gloucester Chime (2012). His shorter choral works include the cantata The Death of Orpheus (1953 revised 2009), the motet Salvator Mundi (1976), The Starlight Night (1990), the evening canticles written for Bristol Cathedral: The Bristol Service (1991) and Celtic Blessings (1996). Music for dance includes two notable collaborations with Helen Lewis, There is a Time (1970) and the London Children's Ballet, Ballet Shoes (2001). He has made several collaborations with poets, providing instrumental music to compliment spoken words, including Lares (1972)"
"cappella, 2012) Cherished Dream (mixed choir a cappella, 2014) Sinfonia Concertante Nr. 1 (2 vls. and string orchestra, 1987) Joy (a minimal overture)(1987) Concerto Breve (1990) Mouvements Concertants (piano, perc. and string orchestra, 1991) Sinfonia Concertante Nr. 2 (vl., vc., and orchestra, 1996) Phoenix (symphonic overture, 1997) Kaleidos (Sinfonia Concertante Nr. 3, vl., cl., pn. and orchestra, 2000) Sinfonia Concertante Nr. 4 (vl., va. and orchestra, 2002) Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (2006) Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (2009) Sinfonia Concertante Nr. 5 (""Imaginaire"") (cl., harp and orchestra, 2010) Syrinx (Ovidius, choir and orchestra, 1990) Correspondences (De Nerval, Flaubert, Baudelaire,"
"Philip Duffy Philip Edmund Duffy KSG, GRSM, ARMCM, PGCE, Hon FGCM, FHEA, FRSCM (born 1943) was the Master of the Music at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral from 1966 to 1996, and lectured at Liverpool Hope University from 2000 to 2013. He is the founder and director of the Liverpool Bach Collective. For over thirty six years Philip Duffy was associated with the music of Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King; for most of them he was Master of the Music (1966–1996). He was born in Liverpool in 1943, and after an abortive start at the piano at the age"
"from ""The Four Seasons),"" Arne (""Rule Britannia"") and Widor (""Toccata"" from ""Symphony for Organ No. 5""). Dr Gordon Stewart recorded a CD in 2012 of 21 pieces of Rawsthorne's Organ Music to mark the composer's 83rd birthday, including many pieces never previously recorded. Noel Rawsthorne Noel Rawsthorne (born 24 December 1929) is a British organist and composer. He was a pupil of Fernando Germani in Italy and Harold Dawber at the Royal Manchester College. He became Organist of Liverpool Cathedral from 1955 to 1980. While there, he composed many original choral works, such as the ""Festive Eucharist"" (1978) which is"
"Choir gave the world premiere of the orchestrated version of his Missa Mirabilis. This work was recorded in 2015 by the Colorado Symphony and Andrew Litton for Hyperion Records. He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he is a visiting Professor, a Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he is the International Chair of piano studies, and an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Liverpool in 2011. He became the first classical music performer"
"Liverpool and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and performs in an improvisation duo with former King Crimson violinist David Cross. Their album English Sun was released in 2009. Andrew Keeling Andrew Keeling is a classical composer. Since the late 1980s he has written music for the likes of Opus 20 (Meditatio 1989), Het Trio (Distant Skies, Mountains and Shadows 1992), The Hilliard Ensemble (O Ignis Spiritus 1993), The Apollo Saxophone Quartet (Wrestling with Angels 1993), the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (Upon the Edge of Autumn 1994), Evelyn Glennie (Concerto Nekyia 1995), The Goldberg Ensemble (Hidden Streams 1995), Fretwork"
"Lo Muscio were broadcast on BBC, Vatican Radio, TV2000, RAI 3, and performed worldwide from renowned musicians such as Kevin Bowyer, Thomas Trotter, Roger Sayer, Carol Anne Williams, John Hackett, Christopher Herrick, Stephen Farr, David Briggs, John Scott. Lo Muscio recorded CDs for the English classical label Priory Records Concerts as organist and pianist in Cathedrals and Concert Halls in Italy, England (St John's College, Cambridge, King's College, Cambridge,St Paul's Cathedral,Lincoln Cathedral,Ely Cathedral,Norwich Cathedral, Coventry Cathedral, Sheffield Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, The Queen's College, Oxford, Exeter College, Oxford, Gloucester Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral,Westminster Abbey,Lancaster Priory,Temple Church, Truro Cathedral,St George's Chapel Windsor Castle,"
"association spanning twenty-five years. The famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast annually on the BBC by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, has included several of his carols, including ""A maiden most gentle"" and ""Mary's Magnificat"". A notable moment in Carter's musical career was a commission in 1997 to write a mass (""Missa Sancti Pauli"") for the tercentenary celebration of St Paul's Cathedral in London. In 2007, he composed a 22-variation ""Passacaglia"" for organ to mark the 90th birthday of the former York Minster organist Francis Jackson. He travels extensively in Europe and Australia and New Zealand as a"
"works, inspiring new compositions for cello from composers as diverse as Malcolm Arnold (Fantasy for Cello, 1986, and Cello Concerto, 1989), Joaquín Rodrigo (Concierto como un divertimento, 1982) James MacMillan (Cello Sonata No. 2, 2001), and Philip Glass (Cello Concerto, 2001). More recent concert performances have included four further works composed for Lloyd Webber – Michael Nyman's Double Concerto for Cello and Saxophone on BBC Television, Gavin Bryars's Concerto in Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Glass's Cello Concerto at the Beijing International Festival and Eric Whitacre's ""The River Cam"" at the Southbank Centre. His recording of the Glass concerto with the Royal"
"1995, and broadcast by the BBC Radio 3 on 3 January 2009 . Michael Rosenzweig (composer) Michael Rosenzweig, born 1951 in Oranjezicht, a suburb of Cape Town, is a South African composer, conductor and jazz musician. Studied composition with Donald Martino at New England Conservatory of Music and on Columbia University’s doctoral programme with Chou Wen-chung, Jack Beeson, and Patricia Carpenter. Carpenter was Arnold Schoenberg’s assistant at UCLA for the last 12 years of his life). He also studied theory with Patricia Carpenter and George Perle. He studied choral conducting with Fritz Weisse of the Berliner Konzert-chor, where he was"
"The Oratory, Liverpool The Oratory stands to the north of Liverpool Cathedral in Merseyside, England. It was originally the mortuary chapel to St James Cemetery, and houses a collection of 19th-century sculpture and important funeral monuments as part of the Walker Art Gallery. It is a Grade I listed building in the National Heritage List for England. The Oratory was built in 1829, and used for funeral services before burials in the adjacent cemetery. It was designed by John Foster. When the cemetery closed, the building fell into disuse. In 1986 it came under the care of National Museums Liverpool,"
"by Carl St.Clair ""Sweet Harmony"" (2002) A cappella works performed by the John Alexander Singers with guest soloists, conducted by John Alexander ""Nocturne"" (2000) A cappella works by Samuel Barber, Adolphus Hailstork, Eric Whitacre and John Alexander, conducted by John Alexander ""Musica"" (1997) American a cappella works, conducted by John Alexander Pacific Symphony's ""Fire, Water, Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio"", by Elliot Goldenthal (1996) conducted by Carl St. Clair ""Songs of Eternity"" by James F. Hopkins and ""Voices"" by Stephen Paulus (1995) with Pacific Symphony, conducted by John Alexander ""Sing Noel"" (1992) with Pacific Chorale Children's Chorus and Pacific Brass Ensemble,"
"In 1997 he gave the premiere of his own, Concerto Primavera with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor, Ian Tracey. He has subsequently composed four further concertos, three for guitar and one for piano. He also gave the UK premiere, in 1981, of Claude Bolling’s ‘Concerto for Classic Guitar & Jazz Piano Trio’, a work he has also recorded with his quartet, Eklectica. In 1997 Robin performed Joaquín Rodrigo’s ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Carl Davis. Robin has collaborated with artists as diverse as the legendary tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, soprano Lesley Garrett, tenor,"
"to be the vehicle. It was an awkward birth and has been described in Mark Featherstone-Witty’s 2001 book 'Optimistic, Even Then’. Through equally extraordinary timing, Paul McCartney was writing his Liverpool Oratorio and decided to relive his schooldays by visiting his old school, the Liverpool Institute for Boys. He was dismayed by the dereliction of the abandoned building and felt that it deserved better. Someone had suggested that Liverpool needed a performing arts school. This idea remained dormant until Sir George Martin suggested Paul McCartney met with Mark Featherstone-Witty. At the time, well before Liverpool achieved the European Capital of"
"1993 to 2012: CDs DVDs Philip Lawson (composer and arranger) Philip Lawson (born 19 February 1957) is a Grammy award-winning British composer and arranger, mostly of a cappella and sacred music. For 18 years he was a baritone with the King's Singers and the group's principal arranger for the last fifteen years of that period. In 2009 the group's album ""Simple Gifts"", on which Lawson arranged 10 out of 15 tracks, won the Grammy award for ""Best Classical Crossover Album"". In February 2012, he left the King's Singers to concentrate on his writing career. Philip Lawson was born in Crawley,"
"'Flight', a concerto for Violin and Strings. Oliver Davis (composer) Oliver Davis is an English composer. Davis studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating in 1994. He has since composed and produced albums, soundtracks, concertos and television scores working with London orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra. Oliver Davis established We Write Music in 1997 after graduating from the Royal Academy of Music. He has since gone on to compose international advertising campaigns, feature films, TV dramas and 15 TV series. Oliver has also written many works for the stage and concert hall including the ballet 'Within the"
"in the Royal College of Music (RCM) Library, had been prepared earlier by violinist Martin Anthony Burrage of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The first modern performance of the ""Piano Quintet"" was given on 7 November 2001 by Burrage's chamber music group, Ensemble Liverpool / Live-A-Music in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. The lunchtime recital included the ""Fantasiestücke"". Live recordings of this performance are lodged with the RCM and the British Library. The artists were Andrew Berridge (violin), Martin Anthony (Tony) Burrage (violin), Joanna Lacey (viola), Michael Parrott (cello) and John Peace (piano). After receiving copies of the work from the RCM"
"Daniel Purcell, Sir John Stainer (1860–1872) and Bernard Rose (1957–1981). Among the other notable former directors and masters of the choir, who hold the title of ""Informator Choristarum"", are John Sheppard (1543-c.1552), Sir William McKie, Haldane Campbell Stewart and the composer Bill Ives (1991–2009), possibly better known as a former King's Singer. A disc of his music, ""Listen Sweet Dove"", is amongst the choir's releases. The current Informator Choristarum, since January 2017, is Mark Williams. He succeeded Daniel Hyde, who had been organ scholar at King's College Cambridge, following Hyde's appointment as Organist and Director of Music of Saint Thomas"
"Chandos labels respectively. Notes References Messiah (Handel) Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Coverdale Psalter, the version of the ""Psalms"" included with the ""Book of Common Prayer"". It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere nearly a year later. After an initially modest public reception, the oratorio gained in popularity, eventually becoming one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music. Handel's reputation in England,"