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2022-01-31 09:25:15
The Manchester connection: lively collaborations and new plans from Manchester Collective and Manchester Camerata
[…] Composer programme, which will be part of an intergenerational performance by the people of Gorton, Manchester, where the ensemble is based. New collaborations sees the Manchester Camerata joining Manchester-based music duo Space Afrika for a performance of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 musicians, working with Manchester-based composer, producer and DJ Afrodeutsche as well as cabaret star Le Gateau Chocolat. More conventionally, there will be a performance of Bach's St John Passion conducted by Gregory Batsleer with Huddersfield Choral Society, and the ensemble performs with Nevill Holt Opera in June for Puccini's La Boheme. Following its move to The Monastery in Gorton East Manchester, Manchester Camerata continues to embed itself in the local communities there through its participant-led music-making programme. Full details from the Manchester Camerata's website.
2020-12-29 00:30:00
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast - Paul Daniel, Christopher Purvis and Huddersfield Choral Society
01. - 09. Belshazzar's Feast* [34'13]10. Crown Imperial. Coronation Match [6'45]11. Orb and Sceptre. Coronation March [7'20]Christopher Purves- baritone, Simon Lindley-organ, Huddersfield Choral Society, Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, Laudibus*; English Northern Philharmonia conducted by Paul Daniel Naxos 8.555869 [recorded June & July 2001* and July & October 1996; CD issued 2004] [digital download; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans] Recording venue: Leeds Town Hall, West YorkshireRecording engineers: Eleanor Thomason & Mike Clements* and David HarriesProducers: Andrew Walton* and and Chris Craker Here is the fifth and last post in this series of recordings of works with orchestra by Walton made by Paul Daniel and the English Northern Philharmonia (the orchestra of Opera North) for Naxos. This series revealed Paul Daniel as one of Walton's finest interpreters and he is provided with consistently fine recorded sound even though each of the five issues were made with […]
2020-10-13 06:22:43
Like choral groups the world over, the Huddersfield Choral Society was silenced by the pandemic and it lost members to COVID-19. To create something new out of the experience and to remember departed friends, the choir commissioned texts from Huddersfield-born Simon Armitage, the Poet Laureate, and commissioned composers Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Daniel Kidane to set the words. Armitage had asked each member of the choir to send him a single word which summed up their experience of lockdown, and out of these he created two lyrics, We'll sing and The Song Thrush and the Mountain Ash, and these have been set by Frances-Hoad and Kidane.Simon Armitage commented: 'I wanted to try and catch some of the mood of lockdown in the lyrics, both the difficulties people have gone through and the great resilience they’ve shown. The pandemic has been devastating for the creative arts but especially hard on singers, with the […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-05-27 19:13:00
The best new classical albums: May 2019
[…] recording on a CD/SACD which can be played on all CD and SACD players. It allows playback in either best CD sound or, when used as SACD, in high-resolution audio quality plus in surround sound. The extensive booklet includes an essay which, among other things, reflects Kirill Petrenko's view of Tchaikovsky's symphony and this recording.Source: berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com Edward Elgar: Caractacus, Op.35Elizabeth Llewellyn (Eigen), sopranoElgan Llŷr Thomas (Orbin), tenorRoland Wood (Caractacus), baritoneChristopher Purves (Arch-Druid, A Bard), bassAlastair Miles (Claudius), bassHuddersfield Choral SocietyOrchestra of Opera NorthConductor: Martyn BrabbinsRecorded April 11-13, 2018, at Huddersfield Town Hall, EnglandReleased on March 29, 2019 by Hyperion RecordsAlthough the London performance of the Enigma Variations under Richter in 1899 is invariably cited as the composer's "red letter" day, Elgar's cantata Caractacus, written for Leeds in 1898, was in many ways equally if not more important as the stylistic confluence of his mature voice (even if Ackworth's rather dated libretto occasionally sticks […]
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