Ketèlbey: Bells across the Meadows

Featuring

Adrian Leaper
Sylvia Čápová-Vizváry
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
Albert Ketèlbey

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Composer Biography

Ketèlbey used several pseudonyms, including A. William Aston, André de Basque, and most frequently, Anton Vodorinski, especially for his piano music.

Composer Biography

Ketèlbey showed early musical talent, beginning piano lessons at age five and composing a Piano Sonata by age eleven or twelve that impressed Sir Edward Elgar.

Performer Biography

Sylvia Čápová, the pianist on this album, received her musical education in Bratislava and Leningrad, and won international competitions including the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966.

Composer Biography

At 13, Ketèlbey won a Queen Victoria Scholarship to Trinity College, outperforming Gustav Holst, who was almost a year his senior.

Composer Biography

Ketèlbey added a grave accent to his surname when his music was first published in 1894 to ensure the correct pronunciation, with stress on the second syllable.

Performer Biography

The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, featured on this album, was established in 1929 as the first professional symphony orchestra in Slovakia.

Composer Biography

Albert William Ketèlbey, a British composer, was born Albert William Ketelbey (without the accent) in Aston Manor, Birmingham, on August 9, 1875.

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