Royal College Archive
Audio News for December 20, 2016
Audio Issue with Google Pixel Smartphones – All Google Pixel XL smartphones, when you crank up the volume to one of the last three volume settings, produce a static distortion. Not heard on other smartphones. Google doesn’t seem to know about the problem. DEG Hi-Res Audio Pavillion at CES – The Digital Entertainment Group will have a coalition of Hollywood studios, CE retailers, manufacturers, technology providers, and the Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing at the Pavillion, in the Central Hall of the LVCC. People from the RIAA, Japan Audio Society, MQA Ltd, and the major music labels (there are only Warners and Universal now) will also be there. Their goal is “to bring a studio-quality experience to a new generation of fans.” A series of live sessions with award-winning music producers and engineers will take place. Attendees will get insight into the process of creating hi-res studio-quality recordings and a perspective on how to better appreciate these recordings as a listener. Classical Music Helps Men at Work (But Not Women) – New research at the Imperial College London and the Royal College of Music was part of the Centre for Performance Science, and was part of their wider research […]
Works of ELENA LANGER – Harmonia mundi
A composer worth watching, as of yet difficult to categorize. ELENA LANGER: Landscape with Three People; Snow; The Storm Cloud (Tucha); Two Cat Songs; Ariadne; Stay O Sweet – Anna Dennis (sop.), William Towers (countertenor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Roman Mints (violin), Meghan Cassidy (viola), Kristine Blaumane (cello), Robert Howarth (harpsichord), Katya Apekisheva (p.) – Harmonia mundi USA HMU 907669, 59:57 [Distr. by Harmonia mundi/PIAS] ****: 42-year-old Moscow composer Elena Langer proves a surprising find on this fine disc of chamber works. She moved to London and finished her degrees at the Royal College and then the Royal Academy of Music, and has since received commissions from a number of famous and important sources. This disc, highlighting her skill in vocal music, is communicative and quite direct in its nimble and thought-provoking utterance. Her orchestrations are light and almost airy, Shostakovich-like in sonority yet ultimately more redolent of Britten on how the words interact with the music. Lee Harwood’s pseudo-description of his own love life in Landscape with Three People is performed to perfection by Anna Dennis, William Towers, and led by Nicholas Daniel, and the other pieces range from the haunting to the pressingly intense. There is a hint of […]
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