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American composer, musician
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2024-03-08 11:52:00
Sounds of Blossom: Kew Gardens' Spring festival offers a full sensory experience with collaboration with the Royal College of Music
Magnolia campbellii 'Pink tulip tree' © RBG KewKew Gardens' Spring festival, Sounds of Blossom, will see visitors not only enjoying the sights and smells of Spring blossom at the gardens but hearing sounds too, as as bespoke compositions emerge from blossom trees thanks to a new collaboration with the Royal College of Music.Working with students from the Royal College of Music, the festival will feature six bespoke commissions that celebrate Kew’s unique landscape in the spring, with recordings of music emerging from carefully chosen locations, including avenues of cherry blossom and vistas dotted with magnolias, offering the prospect of a complete sensory experience. There will be Spring and blossom-inspired music from six of the college's students, Daniel Musashi, Jasmine Morris, Tymon Zgorzelski, Lucy Holmes, Delyth Field, and Louis Enright.Kew Gardens' Sounds of Blossom festival runs from 23 March to 14 April. There will be blossom-inspired dishes in the cafes, and a series of free talks from Kew […]
2024-02-06 07:24:00
Late romantic at Wigmore Hall: Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree in York Bowen and Rebecca Clarke
[…] movement was a vivid dance, Ridout and Dupree bringing out the English folk influences. The finale began with a deeply felt, rather questing melody and as the movement progressed Ridout and Dupree drew increasing intense passion from the music. There was a lovely freedom to their performance as the music fined down to nothing and then erupted again, the ending with the return of earlier material was one of untrammelled passion. Like Ethel Smyth and Augusta Holmes, Rebecca Clarke shocked some of her contemporaries precisely because the music she wrote was not perceived as 'ladylike'. Ridout and Dupree however revelled in this atmosphere, bringing a youthful muscularity to the performance that was totally engaging.After the interval we heard Fritz Kreisler's Praeludium and Allegro which he initially passed off as being in the style of Pugnani(!). Here we heard it in a transcription which was performed by Tertis. Ridout brought energy and passion […]
2024-01-22 09:15:00
UK-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, offers a preview of Northern Opera Group’s 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival which includes a brand-new opera on Sherlock Holmes.
[…] ages and abilities to take part in opera with an annual community opera engaging participants and family audiences in both these important and culturally fired-up northern towns. Recent productions have included César Cui’s Little Red Riding Hood (2022) and David Parry’s Pied Piper of Hamelin (2024). Piazzolla: Maria de Buenos Aires - Leeds Opera Festival 2023 (Photo: Rhian Hughes)And a major new commission this year sees the world’s first-ever opera adaptation surrounding the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. Entitled Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of Four, the opera’s directed by David Ward, written by award-winning composer Lliam Paterson (also responsible for the libretto) and conducted by Ellie Slorach with stage design by Caitlin Mawhinney and lighting by Charly Dunford. Audiences can, therefore, well expect a musical journey through the iconic tale bringing a fresh perspective to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic work. The outstanding bass Edward Hawkins leads a strong cast in the […]
2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
[…] Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924): Turandot Suite, op.41 BV248 [34'50]Argovia Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Douglas BostockCoviello Classics COV91411 [recorded May 2014; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet sourced from internet]Recording venue: Bärenmatte, Suhr, SwitzerlandRecording engineer and Producer: Moritz Bergfeld; Producer: Olaf MielkeWolfgang Amadeus Mozart:01 - 04 Wind Serenade in C minor, K.388 [24'54]05 - 09 Wind Serenade in E-flat major, K.375 [24'40]The Albion Ensemble (George Caird and Victoria Wood- oboes, Andrew Marriner and Julia Holmes- clarinets, Felix Warnock and Michael Cole- bassoons, Michael Thompson and Peter Francombtrumpets)Meridian CDE84107 [recorded 1985; CD issued 1985][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St Olave's School, Orpington, Kent, UKRecording engineer and Producer: John ShuttleworthWolfgang Amadeus Mozart:01 - 07 Wind Serenade in B-flat major, K.361 'Gran Partita' [48'44]The Albion Ensemble (George Caird and Katte Clemmow- oboes, Andrew Marriner and Colin Lawson- clarinets, Angela Malsbury and Michael Harris- bassett horns, Felix Warnock and […]
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