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2024-02-16 00:00:00
Some lesser-known 20th century Cello Concertos
[…] Producer: Chris CrakerMalcolm Arnold:01 - 03 (ed. David Ellis) Cello Concerto, op.136 (1988) * [20'19]04 - 06 (orch. David Ellis) Concertino for Flute and Strings, op.19a (1948/2000) ^ [8'16]07 - 11 (ed. David Ellis) Fantasy for Recorder and String Quartet, op.140 (1990) ' [12'34]12 - 14 (orch. David Ellis) Saxophone Concerto (1942/1994) " [10'06]15 - 17 Symphony for Strings, op.13 (1946) # [21'51]Raphael Wallfisch- cello*, Esther Ingham- flute^, John Turner- recorder', Carl Raven- alto saxophone; Northern Chamber Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Ward*#; Manchester Sinfonia conducted by Richard Howarth^'" Naxos 8.572640 [recorded September 2003 to February 2011; issued 2011][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Withington Girls’ School, Manchester, Alderley Edge Methodist Church, Cheshire, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Manchester University and St Thomas’ Church, Stockport, UK.Recording engineer: Richard Scott; Producer: David EllisCyril Scott:01 (edited Martin Yates): Overture to Pelleas and Melisanda, op.5 (1900) [17'21]02 - 04 (completed Martin Yates): […]
2023-10-30 08:00:00
Music of Innocence: Arvo Pärt, Mozart & Mahler from the Northern Chamber Orchestra
The Northern Chamber Orchestra's (NCO)Autumn season continues at The King's School, Macclesfield on Saturday 4 November 2023 with a concert that celebrates exceptional female musicianship. as the orchestra is joined by conductor Delyana Lazarova, violinist Chloë Hanslip and soprano Nadine Benjamin for a programme of Arvo Pärt, Mozart and Mahler.Delyana Lazarova returns to NCO following her performance of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony with them last year. She is joined by soloist Chloë Hanslip, NCO's artist in association, for Mozart's Violin Concerto in D major, K 218, and the evening ends with a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with soloist Nadine Benjamin. Mahler's symphony is being performed in the chamber orchestration by Iain Farrington. The programme begins with Arvo Pärt's Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten.Established in 1967, the Northern Chamber Orchestra comprising approximately twenty-five musicians, an ensemble of distinguished chamber players, many of whom frequently step into the limelight as soloists. It currently presents an annual series of eight […]
2022-07-18 17:57:00
Our Future in Your Hands: Kate Whitley's new oratorio for Buxton used a chorus of children from local schools and students from the RNCM to terrific effect
[…] Our Future in Your Hands was commissioned for 2020 by Buxton International Festival and the Royal Over-Seas League. Its premiere was postponed until 2022 and we caught the second of two performances at the Buxton International Festival at St John's Church, Buxton on Sunday 17 July 2022. Tom Newall conducted an orchestra made up of instrumentalists from the festival's Young Instrumentalists Programme (taken from students at the Royal Northern College of Music) alongside mentors from the Northern Chamber Orchestra, with soloists Fiona Finsbury (soprano), Rhiannon Dougan (mezzo-soprano), and Christopher Cull (baritone). The two choruses were made up of over fifty young people from eight Derbyshire schools - Platform3 Singing Club (Burbage School, Fairfield Endowed C of E Junior School, Peak Dale Primary School, Buxton Community School, St Philip Howard Catholic Voluntary Academy, St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy, Tinderbox Performing Arts and Tintwistle Primary School. Voices were largely unbroken with a sprinkling […]
2022-07-16 12:59:29
Not a kilt in sight: Jacopo Spirei's fascinating production of Rossini's La donna de lago at Buxton
Rossini: La donna del lago: Nico Darmanin, Maire Flavin, John Irvin, Catherine Carby, David Ireland, director: Jacopo Spirei, conductor: Giulio Cilona, Northern Chamber Orchestra; Buxton International Festival at Buxton Opera HouseReviewed 15 July 2022 (★★★★½)An impressive achievement and a terrific evening in the theatre; strong musical performance and intelligently re-thought staging combinedRossini's operas for Naples, where he was music director of the Royal theatres from 1815 to 1821 represent an important strand in the development of his opera. There he had a large and well-funded establishment so that he was able to challenge his performers musically, scenically and dramatically. In a way, each of his Neapolitan operas pushes boundaries or experiments with form, as Rossini moves rather old fashioned opera seria towards something more modern. La donna del Lago (premiered 1819) is important in many ways. Musically one of the finest operas of Rossini's Neapolitan period, it is the first major use of […]
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