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2024-03-26 08:31:00
Worcester 2024: Three Choirs Festival releases full festival line-up along with announcing a new composer development scheme
[…] festival was recently announced, so that alongside Elgar's The Kingdom, music commemorating 100 years since Stanford's death, Holst's early rarity The Cloud Messenger, premieres of two new festival commissions from Nathan James Dearden and Paul Mealor, and music inspired by the natural world including Bob Chilcott's The Angry Planet, and Sarah Kirkland Snyder's Mass for the Endangered, there is a packed daytime programme, including the Armonico Consort in The Forgotten Scarlatti, tributes to Steve Martland from the Heath Quartet and GBSR Duo, the Elias Quartet and Robert Plane, and a visit from The Symphonic Brass of London.The festival features a total of 26 premieres, including performances of the New Voices Academy's Springboard composer works, which will be repeated at next year's Spitalfields Music Festival. Full details from the festival website.
2024-02-15 07:23:00
A Lionel Tertis Celebration: Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu; Harmonia Mundi
[…] - concert reviewA Star Next to the Moon: Stephen McNeff on his new opera, based on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, a seminal novel of magic realism - interviewHorns galore: incandescent playing from Ben Goldscheider in the London premiere of Gavin Higgins' terrific new concerto - concert reviewDiagrams & sonatas: discs of solo piano music Arvo Pärt & Ivor Gurney, neither composer well-known for writing in the genre - record reviewSophisticated timbres & detailed textures: UK premiere of Helen Grime's String Quartet No. 2 & Ravel's String Quartet from Heath Quartet at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewHome
2024-02-14 07:56:00
Young Composers 5: the latest iteration of the National Youth Choir's Young Composers scheme challenge & stimulate
[…] - concert reviewA Star Next to the Moon: Stephen McNeff on his new opera, based on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, a seminal novel of magic realism - interviewHorns galore: incandescent playing from Ben Goldscheider in the London premiere of Gavin Higgins' terrific new concerto - concert reviewDiagrams & sonatas: discs of solo piano music Arvo Pärt & Ivor Gurney, neither composer well-known for writing in the genre - record reviewSophisticated timbres & detailed textures: UK premiere of Helen Grime's String Quartet No. 2 & Ravel's String Quartet from Heath Quartet at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewClarity of musical purpose & remarkable intimacy: Regents Opera in Wagner's Siegfried - opera reviewHome
2024-02-13 07:41:00
Celebrating 75 years: London Mozart Players in wonderful form for all-Mozart programme at Fairfield Halls plus the launch of 100 Faces of Croydon
[…] - concert reviewA Star Next to the Moon: Stephen McNeff on his new opera, based on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, a seminal novel of magic realism - interviewHorns galore: incandescent playing from Ben Goldscheider in the London premiere of Gavin Higgins' terrific new concerto - concert reviewDiagrams & sonatas: discs of solo piano music Arvo Pärt & Ivor Gurney, neither composer well-known for writing in the genre - record reviewSophisticated timbres & detailed textures: UK premiere of Helen Grime's String Quartet No. 2 & Ravel's String Quartet from Heath Quartet at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewClarity of musical purpose & remarkable intimacy: Regents Opera in Wagner's Siegfried - opera reviewLate romantic at Wigmore Hall: Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree in York Bowen and Rebecca Clarke - concert reviewLate romantic at Wigmore Hall: Simon Callaghan in Cyril Scott's sonata - concert reviewHome