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2022-05-04 10:24:24
Classical music at this year's Bath Festival
[…] Messiaen, McDowall and more. Horn player Ben Goldscheider and trumpeter Matilda Lloyd join Jason Thornton and the Bath Philharmonia for a programme that includes concertos by Mozart and Haydn, plus Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Janacek's Sinfonietta. These latter two will feature the combined forces of the Bath Philharmonia and the Band of the Royal Marines School of Music. Should be thrilling stuff! Epic in another way is Steve Reich's Drumming, and the Colin Currie Group will be performing it with Synergy VocalsThe festival's Rising Stars this year include cellist Laura van der Heijden, pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, pianist Ariel Lanyi, violinist Irene Duval and pianist Sam Armstrong, pianist Ryan Corbett, and pianist Jonian Ilias KadeshaOther visitors to the festival include IF Opera will be presenting a faded Parisian salon, Chez Bullier, evoking memories of classic operas. Soprano Claire Booth will be revisiting her extraordinary solo tour-de-force with Poulenc's […]
2022-04-19 11:14:05
Steve Reich: Quartet Context Co-commissioned by the Southbank Centre, Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, Cité de la musique and Köner Philharmonie, Steve Reich’s Quartet was premiered in 2013 by the Colin Currie Group. Dedicated to percussionist Colin Currie, the quartet is made up of two pianos and two vibraphones. The […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2021-10-21 08:28:12
Royal Festival Hall, LondonBuilt around a new piece by the 85-year-old composer unlike anything he has written before, this was an exhilarating occasion Earlier this month, Steve Reich celebrated his 85th birthday. The Colin Currie Group and Synergy Vocals are marking this landmark in the life of one of the greatest living composers with a European tour, which includes the first performances of his latest work, composed for them and jointly commissioned by a consortium of concert halls including the Southbank Centre. Traveler’s Prayer was composed last year, begun before and completed during the pandemic. It’s a setting not of the Hebrew Traveller’s Prayer itself, but of three short Old Testament passages that are often added to it, and Reich sets them for four voices in long sinuous vocal lines, often doubled and coloured by the instrumental ensemble, and making extensive use of intertwining canons and their inversions and retrogrades. Reich […]
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