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2022-07-09 08:31:30
Growing up with Hildegard: Voice trio on the importance of Hildegard of Bingen's music to them alongside contemporary pieces
[…] with the cellist Matt Haimovitz. Roderick Williams has written them a suite of pieces for three voices and cellos which they are performing with Matthew Sharp, setting words by Ursula Vaughan Williams. They originally met Roderick Williams at the Oxford Girls Choir when he sang Aeneas in performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas that the choir sang in.Outside Voice, they all have busy careers ranging from motherhood to singing with groups such as Joglaresa and Musica Secreta, as well as performing freelance.The album launch is on 12 July at Spitalfields Music Festival, and they are performing at the Three Choirs Festival, where they are performing Hildegard Portraits, their programme Megaphones for the Unheard. Then in September, they are performing at Medieval Music in the Dales at Bolton Castle. Beyond the album launch, they have no concrete plans, but they are interested in developing their programme, Megaphones for the Unheard further. The programme started […]
2020-01-03 08:46:37
Holy Week Festival at St John's Smith Square
Easter 2020 sees the Holy Week Festival returning to St John's Smith Square, where it is curated in partnership with Nigel Short and Tenebrae. Running from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday (5 to 12 April 2020), this year's festival features performances from Musica Secreta, the King's Singers, Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Tallis Scholars, Tenebrae, the Choir of Merton College and Florilegium, Armonico Consort, and Siglo de Oro.Musica Secreta will give the first London performance of Laurie Stras' new complete version of Antoine Brumel's Lamentation [see my review of their disc], and both of Bach's Passions feature in the festival with Benjamin Nicholas conducting the choir of Merton College and Florilegium in the St Matthew Passion with James Oxley as the Evangelist, Giles Underwood as Christus, and Stephen Layton directing Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Bach's St John Passion with Nick […]
2019-11-27 09:54:35
Vivid and passionate: chamber music in Highgate
[…] Musical Outsider: Nadine Benjamin, Michael Bell, Nigel Foster & Gabriel Woolf at the London Song Festival (★★★★) - concert review Barbara Strozzi: Virtuosa of Venice - Fieri Consort (★★★½) - CD review Strong connections: Sally Beamish on her 60th anniversary piece for the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, & her personal links to the orchestra - interview From Darkness Into Light: Antoine Brumel's Lamentations recorded complete by Musica Secreta (★★★★) - Cd review Home
2019-11-26 09:00:05
Artful creation: Marci Meth's The Wild Song mixes Britten folksongs, Yeats poetry and soundscapes by Mycheal Danna
[…] Musical Outsider: Nadine Benjamin, Michael Bell, Nigel Foster & Gabriel Woolf at the London Song Festival (★★★★) - concert review Barbara Strozzi: Virtuosa of Venice - Fieri Consort (★★★½) - CD review Strong connections: Sally Beamish on her 60th anniversary piece for the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, & her personal links to the orchestra - interview From Darkness Into Light: Antoine Brumel's Lamentations recorded complete by Musica Secreta (★★★★) - Cd review From Eugene O'Neill play to American folk opera: I chat to composer Edward Thomas about his opera Anna Christie - interview Home
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