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2021-08-24 07:11:12
To the max: supersize polyphony from Armonico Consort for its 20th birthday
Armonico Consort & Christopher Monks (Photo Peter Marsh Ashmore Visuals) The Armonico Consort is 20 this year and to celebrate artistic director Christopher Monks is taking the ensemble on tour during September and October 2021 with a programme of large-scale Renaissance choral music, performing some of the largest scale pieces of the period. Alongside Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium, Armonico Consort will give rare performances of Heinrich Biber's Missa Salisburgensis for 53 voices and Alessandro Striggio's 60-part Missa sopra Ecco sì Beato Giorno, interspersed with the plainsong chants of Hildegard von Bingen.Italian composer Alessandro Striggio wrote music for the courts in Florence and Ferrara as well as having links with Munich. His mass Missa sopra Ecco si Beato Giorno was probably written in Florence in 1565–6, during the reign of his employer Cosimo I de' Medici. It is thought that Striggio may have had music for this mass or his […]
2020-04-06 23:44:00
The Berkeley Festival and Exhibition [of Early Music], which was to have run from June 7 to 14, has now been canceled. From the press release:SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 3, 2020 —The San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS) and its Board of Directors today announced that it will cancel the Berkeley Festival and Exhibition which was scheduled to take place in June because of concerns over the coronavirus. Since its inauguration in 1990, the Festival has been recognized as one of the foremost events of its kind, bringing together early music performers and enthusiasts for a week of concerts, lectures, master classes, film screenings and more in Berkeley, California. In association with Early Music America, this year’s Festival was to be the first to expand to San Francisco. “Because the health of our artists, production team, patrons and wider community comes first, we will be cancelling the 16th biennial Berkeley […]
2019-10-11 14:56:00
Rating: 0 Tomorrow (Saturday 12 October) is National Album Day 2019! Following the success of the inaugural event last year, this celebratory occasion aims to highlight the pleasure of listening to albums in their entirety rather than simply heading for individual tracks – an aim neatly encapsulated by this year’s ‘Don’t Skip’ theme and #DontSkip hashtag. The day also recognises the thought and invention that goes into creating a really well-crafted album, where each track leads neatly into the next, creating a whole that adds up to much […]
2019-07-31 06:21:07
Second View: Prokofiev’s War and Peace - a work ranging from the intensity of personal emotion to the grit of national determination - was also grand and intimate at the same time
Prokofiev: War and Peace - Welsh National Opera (Photo Clive Barda) Prokofiev’s War and Peace: Jonathan McGovern, Lauren Michelle, Mark Le Brocq, Jurgita Adamonytė, dir: David Pountney, cond: Tomáš Hanus; Welsh National Opera at Royal Opera House Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 23 July 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Sir David Pountney’s colourful account of Prokofiev’s epic work, War and Peace, was delivered by a great cast with a creative team that worked sheer wonders on a relatively tight budgetBased on Tolstoy’s epic novel, the well-known scenario of War and Peace follows the trials and tribulations of Russian society as Napoleon edges closer to the country’s borders spinning his grand ideas of conquering Western Europe whilst, at the same time, stirring fear in Mother Russia. Tony Cooper provides a second view of Prokofiev's opera in Welsh National Opera's production at the Royal Opera House (seen 23 […]
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