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[…] then have the return journey for the next service and only had a short amount of time to try and pick up the thread. By the time Easter Day arrived I always felt slightly frustrated and disappointed by the fact that I’d dipped in and out of the drama all week long and thus not had the chance to really immerse myself in the emotional highs and lows of the story of the Passion. Chantage (performing on the second night of Holy Week) A Holy Week Festival in one venue – St John’s Smith Square – is the chance to create that time and space where the most poignant music composed and dedicated to this drama can be performed day by day and night by night. Concerts followed by themed liturgical events means that the narrative is never interrupted. The Offices of Tenebrae – the name given to Lauds and […]
2018-02-07 09:09:54
Holy Week Festival at St John's Smith Square
Paweł Łukaszewski whose Responsories feature at this year's Holy Week Festival (photo Marta Filipczyk) This year's Holy Week Festival at St John's Smith Square, artistic director Nigel Short, runs from 26 March to 1 April 2018. Stephen Layton, Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia return with their Good Friday performance of Bach's St John Passion with Nick Pritchard as the Evangelist and Neal Davies as Christus, Tenebrae and the Aurora Orchestra will perform Arvo Part's Passio and Gabrieli, conductor Paul McCreesh, will perform Bach's Mass in B minor. The Skylark Ensemble, conductor Matthew Guard, brings a programme of music by William BillingsOther performers include the choir of Royal Holloway (conductor Rupert Gough), Ex Cathedra (conductor Jeffrey Skidmore), Chantage (conductor James Davey), Temple Church Choir (conductor Roger Sayer), and the Tallis Scholars (conductor Peter Phillips).As ever, a special feature of the festival is the nightly liturgical event with Nigel Short and the […]
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2014-08-08 16:17:25
Orch to play symphony from memory at the BBC Proms. Good idea?
Nicholas Collon and his trendy Aurora Orchestra are going to perform Mozart’s 40th symphony from memory, in what is claimed to be a first at the Proms. Can you see the point? We can’t… press release: In what promises to be a unique concert experience the Aurora Orchestra and Chantage, under conductor Nicholas Collon, perform the world premiere of Benedict Mason’s Meld at the centre of an extraordinary Late Night Prom on Saturday 16 August which leaves behind many of the conventions of orchestral performance. The concert opens with a performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 which the Aurora players will perform entirely from memory. This is thought to be the first time a whole orchestral symphony has been performed without music in the 119-year history of the Proms. The Mozart is followed by Dobrinka Tabakova’s Spinning a Yarn, which places the rustic hurdy-gurdy alongside a solo violin. At the […]
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