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2022-07-27 07:43:00
Sarojini: a new work by Shruthi Rajasekar celebrating Indian Independence
Sarojini Naidu on a 1964 Indian stampThis year is the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence, and in honour of this the Hertfordshire Chorus will be premiering a new work by Indian-American composer Shruthi Rajasekar, Sarojini, which will be performed alongside Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man at St Albans Cathedral on 22 October 2022, with David Temple conducting the Hertfordshire Chorus, London Orchestra da Camera, Ana Beard Fernandez (soprano), Osama Kiwan (muezzin), Nirmala Rajasekar (veena - a long-necked, pear-shaped lute - & voice), and Tanjore Murugaboopathi (mridangam - a double-sided drum).Rajasekar creates music that draws from her unique background in the Carnatic (South Indian classical) and Western classical idioms. Her new work, Sarojini is written for chorus, orchestra and Indian classical instruments and her guru and mother, Nirmala Rajasekar, will be one of the premiere's performers. Sarojini is named for the remarkable freedom fighter, poet, and women's rights activist Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949). She was an important person in India's struggle for independence […]
2022-01-27 07:24:59
During the late 1880s and early 1890s, Sir Hubert Parry wrote a series of large scale choral works, the Biblical oratorios Judith (1888) and Job (1892), the cantata Ode on St Cecilia's Day (1889) and the psalm setting De Profundis (1891). These have, largely, disappeared from view and few have received any or many 20th and 21st century performances. Conductor William Vann revived Judith in 2020, performing the work at the Royal Festival Hall and recording it for Chandos [see my review]. The choir on this recording was Crouch End Festival Chorus, and it was whilst the choir's conductor David Temple was preparing them for the Judith performances and recording that he came across Parry's De Profundis. Now there is a chance to hear this as David Temple conducts Parry's De Profundis with the Hertfordshire Chorus and London Orchestra da Camera in a concert at St Alban's Cathedral on 26 February 2022. De Profundis is written for 12-part choir, […]
2019-10-12 05:29:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 12, 2019
[…] Crumb: Three Early Songs, for Voice and Piano University of Pennsylvania Department of Music Philadelphia, PA Oct. 13: Alexander Dobson Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro Florentine Opera Milwaukee, WI Oct.17: Michael Schade Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada Oct. 17, 18, 19 & 20: Nicholas McGegan Shaw: The Listeners Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra San Francisco, Palo Alto, Berkeley, CA Oct. 19: Diana Moore Mendelssohn: Elijah Hertfordshire Chorus St. Albans Cathedral St. Albans, England Oct. 20, 21: Anne Manson Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 Saint-Saëns: La Nuit Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 Aachen Symphony Orchestra Oct. 20: Sherezade Panthaki Love and Revenge: The Baroque Diva Virtuoso Opera arias by Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Graupner, Clérambault, and more Caramoor Katonah, NY Oct. 26: Sherezade Panthaki Brahms: Liebeslieder-Waltzer Brahms: Nänie Yale Choral Artists New Haven, CT Oct. 24: Matthew Halls Bach: Orchestral […]
2018-10-31 00:55:00
W H Auden and Benjamin Britten Benjamin Britten Ballad for Heroes, Ivor Gurney Gloucestershire Rhapsody and Arthur Bliss Morning Heroes with David Temple conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Hertfordshire Chorus in Watford last week, broadcast on BBC Radio 3. An excellent porogramme since these pieces aren't as well known as they should be, though they are hardly unknown.Britten's Ballad for Heroes Op 14, 1939 for example. When I first heard the piece seven years ago (Ilan Volkov BBCSO, Barbican) I didn't understand it, but gradually it's grown on me. The disparity between the poetry of W H Auden and the doggerel of Randall Swingler is a problem, but Britten uses it with a certain degree of irony. Auden is an intellectual : Swingler a man of action (a Communist) but not so good with words. Auden opposes fascism, while Swingler's solution is to fight […]
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