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2022-08-05 07:54:00
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra launches 2022/23 season under music director Joanna MacGregor
[…] St Matthew Passion. In January the orchestra strike out in a new direction, playing on Saturday evening rather than Sunday afternoon, and celebrating the natural world in a collaboration with visual artist Kathy Hinde. The music will mix avant-garde, minimalist, rock, jazz and more including Philip Glass, Rolf Wallin, John Luther Adams, Einojuhani Rautavaara and Jonny Greenwood.There is also a chamber music programme including Joanna MacGregor and BPO principals in Frank Martin, Shostakovich and Brahms, Brighton Festival Chorus and BPO Brass in Gabrieli and Paul Mealor, and for Christmas Roger Allam narrates Dickens' A Christmas Carol. In the New Year, concerts include MacGregor and BPO principals in Rebecca Clarke and Elgar.For those who have never seen a classical concert or heard the BPO before, there are a limited number of £10 LoveMusic tickets available for three of the concerts.The orchestra was formed in 1925 by Herbert Mengs as the Symphonic […]
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2019-12-22 10:08:06
Death of a masterful chorus master, 89
The Brighton Festival Chorus has announced the death of its founder Laszlo Heltay, a Hungarian who gave the British choral...
2018-02-06 12:20:00
Ecce sacerdos magnus - Elgar, SOMM
New from SOMM Recordings, Ecce sacerdos magnus, Edward Elgar music for chorus and orchestra, Barry Wordsworth conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Brighton Festival Chorus. And so Ecce sacerdos magnus "we behold the great priest who, in his days pleased God" : a short piece for chorus and organ, from 1888, written for St George's, the church in which Elgar had been baptized, and where he followed his father as organist. Elgar's Te Deum op 34/1 and Benedictus op 34/2 were first heard at Hereford Cathedral at the opening concert of the Three Choirs Festival in 1897. The energetic introduction to the Te Deum brims with the expansiveness we now associate with the mature Elgar. Searching chords herald the Benedictus, the voices of the choir building up texture, the higher voices particularly lucid. A stunning finale : "Glory be! Glory Be to the Father and to the Son and to […]
2018-02-06 12:20:00
Ecce sacerdos magnus - Elgar, SOMM
New from SOMM Recordings, Ecce sacerdos magnus, Edward Elgar music for chorus and orchestra, Barry Wordsworth conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Brighton Festival Chorus. And so Ecce sacerdos magnus "we behold the great priest who, in his days pleased God" : a short piece for chorus and organ, from 1888, written for St George's, the church in which Elgar had been baptized, and where he followed his father as organist. Elgar's Te Deum op 34/1 and Benedictus op 34/2 were first heard at Hereford Cathedral at the opening concert of the Three Choirs Festival in 1897. The energetic introduction to the Te Deum brims with the expansiveness we now associate with the mature Elgar. Searching chords herald the Benedictus, the voices of the choir building up texture, the higher voices particularly lucid. A stunning finale : "Glory be! Glory Be to the Father and to the Son and to […]
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