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2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] Instruments * [19:18]2.10 - 2-16 Movements for Piano and Orchestra * [9:30]2.15 - 2.17 Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra * [16:35]Peter Donohoe- piano; Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Atherton*Somm CD266-2 [recorded July 1995* & January 1999*, September 2016 and June 2017; issued 2018][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK and Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong*Recording engineers: Paul Arden Taylor and Mike Hatch*; Producers: Sive Oke and Stephen Johns*Gerald Finzi:01 - 03 Cello Concerto in A minor, op.40 * [37'08]04 Eclogue for piano and strings, op.10 [10'51]05 Grand Fantasia and Toccata for piano and orchestra, op.38 [13'44]Tim Hugh- cello*; Peter Donohoe- piano, Northern Sinfonia conducted by Howard GriffithsNaxos 8.555766 [recorded January 2001; issued 2001][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Jubilee Theatre, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UKRecording engineer and Producer: Tim HandleyWilliam Alwyn:01 - 04 Piano Concerto No.1 (1930) * […]
2024-02-02 10:19:00
As chilling and emotional as ever: Kate Lindsey returns as Offred in ENO's strong revival of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale
[…] with Madeleine Shaw as Rita, the housekeeper, Zwakele Tshabalala as Nick, the driver, a woefully underused Susan Bickley as Offred's Mother and John Findon as Luke, Offred's husband. A big mention here to the poignant, and incredibly poised, performance from Elspeth McDonald as Luke and Offred's daughter (doubling with Francesca Ditchburn). More 'blink and you miss them' roles, important in the ensemble but without much time in the spotlight, were Annabella-Vesela Ellis as New Offglen, Alan Oke as the Doctor, Helen Johnson as Moira's aunt, Lydia Marchione as Warren's wife, plus Adam Sullivan, Ronald Naire, Robert Winslade Anderson, Lixin Liu, Amy Kerenza Sedgwick and Sophie Goldrick.Juliet Stevenson was poised and rather moving as Professor Pieixoto, her poignant final envoi to Offred (whose fate remained unknown) emphasising the problem with transporting Margaret Attwood's novel to other genres (opera, television series); Attwood's prose is so wonderful and so luminous, it hardly need amplification […]
2022-04-11 11:49:40
The Handmaid's Tale: Poul Ruders operatic version of Margaret Atwood's dystopic tale returns in a stark new production with an astonishing performance from Kate Lindsey in the title role
[…] was a remote figure at first, but as Act Two progressed Hayward made us understand the man and his actions. Similarly, Avery Amereau's terrifically controlled Serena Joy came to pieces at the end in stunning fashion. The other main characters were strongly etched cameos fitting into the whole, with Susan Bickely as Offred's mother and John Findon as Offred's husband. Frederick Ballantine made a charmingly oily Nick, though his role was somewhat brief, and Alan Oke was a suitably unsettling doctor, and Madeleine Shaw made a powerful impression as the housekeep Rita The role of Luke and Offred's young daughter was shared between Elspeth MacDonald and Frances Ditchburn. The progamme did not specify, but I understand I saw Elspeth MacDonald (Rhian Lois' daughter) and she was a consummate profession despite being all of five. In the spOken role of Prof. Pixieito, Camille Cottin created a striking impression. […]
2022-02-25 19:38:00
Coliseum Images: Clive Barda Forester – Lester Lynch Vixen – Sally Matthews Forester’s Wife, Owl – Madeleine Shaw Schoolmaster, Mosquito – Alan Oke Priest, Badger – Clive Bayley Poacher – Ossian Huskinson Innkeeper, Cock – John Findon Fox – Pumeza Matshikiza Innkeeper’s Wife, Chief Hen – Gweneth Ann Rand Dog – Claire Barnett Jones Pepík, Woodpecker – Alexandra Oomens Frantík, Jay – Ffion Edwards Harašta – Ossian Huskinson Dragonfly – Joy Constantinides Frog – Robert Berry-Roe Cricket – Ethan James Grasshopper – Kavya Kutsa Jamie Manton (director) Tom Scutt (designs) Lucy Carter (lighting) Jenny Ogilvie (movement) Children’s Chorus (chorus director: Patrick Barett) Chorus of the English National Opera (chorus director: Mark Biggins) Orchestra of the English National Opera Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Failure to love the operas—more generally, the music—of Janáček would be a strange, soulless thing indeed. It seems more to be opera companies, strange, incomprehensible entities, than […]
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