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2024-03-08 17:00:20
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2024-01-09 10:00:00
When Kronos Quartet traveled to Hungary in 2018 to perform at Esterházy Palace – the home of Franz Joseph Haydn’s.. The post appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
2023-12-30 09:32:00
2023 in concert reviews: Gavin Higgins x2, Allan Clayton's Samson, Reginald Mobley in Bayreuth, the Pink Singers & Brixton Chamber Orchestra both party and Bitches Brew is back
[…] Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake enchanted in songs by Robert & Clara Schumann, Schubert, Henze and Mahler all setting texts by Rückert. Nigel Foster's London Song Festival presented the world premiere of Granville Bantock's remarkable Oscar Wilde setting, The Sphinx.Colin Currie and the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrated The Beano including the premiere of a new concerto by Gavin Higgins, and we caught up with Higgins' The Faerie Bride at the Three Choirs Festival.Our correspondent, Florence, helped the Kronos Quartet celebrate its 50th anniversary, and enjoyed a modern recreation of Miles Davies' iconic Bitches Brew.Handel: Samson - Allan Clayton - Philharmonia Chorus, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings - BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/ Sisi Burn)Explore our full selection below:Party! London's LGBT+ community choir, the Pink Singers, celebrates 40 years at the Cadogan HallThis is my body: Figure's imaginative rethinking of Buxtehude's intense sung devotion, Membra Jesu NostriReclaiming Handel's first thoughts: Peter Whelan directs […]
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2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] (satirical and, in its music, stylistically kaleidoscopic), and Bohuslav Martinů’s Larmes de couteau and Comedy on the Bridge (one-act operas, with music deftly pointing up the semi-comical, sometimes surrealistic librettos). From our own day and country come Jonathan Berger’s Mỹ Lai, an enormously effective retelling of an American officer’s attempt to stop a massacre, by American troops, of innocent civilians in that Vietnamese town—the work features tenor Rinde Eckert, multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, and the Kronos Quartet—and an enormously effective work about police brutality against Black Americans: Blue, composed by the renowned Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori, to a libretto by Tazewell Thompson. Other genres: I should also mention non-operatic “bests” of the year: a collection of songs, chamber, and piano works by Samuel Adler (who is still composing at age 95!), two CDs of fresh and appealing pieces (including the intriguing Improvisation Diary) by Allen Shawn, four colorful and stirring […]
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