Britten Sinfonia News
chamber orchestra
- Chamber orchestra
- United Kingdom
social networks
streaming
Last update
2024-03-18
Refresh
2024-02-29 07:43:00
One of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich comes round in the merry month of May.
[…] Collon, will return to the festival for the first time in seven years performing Beethoven’s third symphony, one of the composer’s most celebrated works marking the beginning of his innovative ‘middle period’. As is their trademark, they’ll be performing the ‘Eroica’ entirely from memory in an intimate concert setting in Norwich Cathedral - Saturday 11th May. The festival’s also proud to be welcoming back one of the leading champions of the harpsichord, Mahan Esfahani, joining the Britten Sinfonia to complete their season-long Bach collaboration at St Peter Mancroft Church - Saturday, 25th May. Alongside the complete cycle of Bach’s uplifting and era-defining keyboard concertos, they’ll also perform a programme of Bach’s second orchestral suite (which doubles as a flute concerto) as well as the fifth Brandenburg Concerto in which they’ll be joined by violinist, Jacqueline Shave, a person who’s no stranger to Norwich audiences through her long association with the Britten […]
2024-02-15 07:41:00
70th birthday celebrations for composer Richard Blackford continue with performances, publications & recordings
Richard BlackfordComposer Richard Blackford celebrated his 70th birthday last month, and the celebrations are spreading out across the year with performances, publications and recordings. His new cantata, Babel, based on the Biblical stories of Noah's flood and the tower of Babel for choir, organ, piano duet and percussion has just been published and is being released on disc on Lyrita in March, with David Hill conducting the Ikon Singers, on a disc that also includes Blackford's La Sagrada Familia, his symphony inspired by Gaudi's masterpiece in Barcelona, with the composer conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Also recently published is Clarissa's Tango for violin and piano, which Clarissa Bevilacqua, violin [to whom I chatted last year, see my interview] and Thomas Hoppe, piano have released as a digital single.Also in March, Nimbus Records is releasing Blackford's Songs of Nadia Anjuman with soprano Elizabeth Watts and the Britten Sinfonia, which set […]
2024-02-14 07:41:00
Direct, determined, and loud: Welsh composer David John Roche introduces his new electric guitar concerto for Sean Shibe
Welsh composer David John Roche describes his music as 'direct, determined, and loud', and it is strongly influenced by heavy metal, lush orchestral music, and his working-class Welsh background. Currently David is working on a new concerto for guitarist Sean Shibe, for electric guitar. The work is being premiered by Sinfonia Cymru on 23 February 2024 as part of the Time Machine programme in Aberystwyth, Criccieth and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama [see Sinfonia Cymru website], then the work will also be performed by Britten Sinfonia at St Giles' Cripplegate on 2 March [see Barbican website] as part of their Magnum Opus showcase [see Tony's recent article]. Here, David introduces some ideas behind the work.I learned to perform and write music by playing electric guitar in rock and metal bands. When I was a teenager, South Wales had such an amazing music scene (it still does!) - the standard of musicianship […]
2024-02-12 07:56:00
Magnum Opus: Britten Sinfonia's composer development scheme showcases work from 2023 composers David John Roche, Daniel Soley and Crystalla Serghiou
Magnum Opus Composers 2023: David John Roche, Daniel Soley and Crystalla SerghiouNorwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, reports on Britten Sinfonia’s enterprising Magnum Opus development programme for composers.Each year three composers ready to take a significant leap forward in their blossoming careers are selected for Britten Sinfonia’s headline development programme entitled Magnum Opus made possible by the generous support of the PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner Fund. Applications are submitted in response to an open call viewed anonymously by the scheme’s programme directors. The featured composers comprise David John Roche, Crystalla Serghiou and Daniel Soley who have been embedded with the orchestra over the past year. They wrote wind quintets which were premièred as part of a successful and well-received Britten Sinfonia tour in April last year. Recently, they have composed further substantial chamber concertos to be premièred at the finale event at St Giles’ Cripplegate (close to the Barbican Centre) on Saturday 2nd March […]
or
- Chamber orchestras (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): B...