Kenneth Hamilton Plays Ronald Stevenson Volumes 1 and 2
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 121781157
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Performance (commercial recording)
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- These recordings are the outcome of Hamilton’s many years of study with the composer Ronald Stevenson, during which he not only heard Stevenson himself play (either in public or in private) all the works recorded, but also received advice from the composer on the performances of these pieces. Stevenson attended Hamilton’s public recitals in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Birmingham that included Stevenson’s music, commented upon recordings of Hamilton’s Stevenson performances elsewhere (for example in Singapore, where he performed the Three Scottish Ballads, the Peter Grimes Fantasy, Heroic Song for Hugh MacDiarmid, and Hebridean Seascape) and wrote testimonials and references for the performer.
The premiere recordings on these CDs include an unpublished revised version of the Bull/Stevenson The King’s Hunt (written specially for Hamilton, who possesses the manuscript of this version), the then [when?] unpublished Tauberiana (premiered by Hamilton in the presence of the composer) and the Threepenny Sonatina.
Hamilton’s deep and extensive research into Stevenson’s music and performance practice are recounted in detail in his liner notes to the CDs. Both the recordings themselves, and the accompanying texts, have received significant international dissemination, and have been extensively acknowledged by reviewers worldwide as “definitive” contributions to Stevenson studies. Selected tracks have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and on radio in the US. Volume 1 was CD of the Week for Klassik Heute in Germany; Volume 2 reached the UK Official Classical Chart Top 20. Quotes from 28 reviews can be found here:
Vol 1 - https://ascrecords.com/primafacie/stevenson_vol1.html
Vol 2 - https://ascrecords.com/primafacie/stevenson_vol2.html
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- Non-English
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