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2022-02-15 09:18:45
Temple Music's Spring 2022 season is something of an end of an era, as it is the last to be programmed by the long standing director Carol Butler who has just retired. Her successor, Roland Deller, took over last month and he will be responsible for programming the Autumn 2022 season. Spring 2022 features nine concerts in Temple Church and Middle Temple Hall, mixing chamber music, choral music and song. The season opens with a recital from pianist Imogen Cooper, followed by a recital from the Busch Trio. Song features strongly, bass-baritone Brindley Sherratt will be giving a rare recital with pianist Julius Drake, and Drake returns for two further recitals, partnering Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek, and two award-winning young singers, mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and baritone Konstantine Krimmel. Choral music features with concerts from the Temple Church Choir, including a performance of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Collegium Musicum of London in Mozart's […]
2021-12-10 08:33:58
Christmas disc round-up: from Christmas Matins in Bavaria & Nine Lessons & Carols at King's College, Cambridge to festive brass from Canada & the Wexford Carols
Daniel Hyde and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, recording In the Bleak Midwinter in the chapel in December 2020 This year's Christmas round-up has something of an edge to it, many of the discs were recorded under the challenge of social distancing and the effect of the pandemic on child choristers who will have been deprived of the experience of singing in public. Some choirs have clearly made good use of the time offered, whilst others such as King's College, Cambridge took advantage of the unusual circumstances to record the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in a chapel empty of audience.There is also a sense of looking back, the King's Singers return to their roots, whilst on Alto we can hear the Deller Consort in Medieval carols recorded in the 1950s and 1960s and the St Florian's Boy's Choir celebrates its 950th birthday with archive recordings. It is not […]
2020-04-28 23:00:00
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Britten conducts BrittenVol. 1 Operas 1Benjamin Britten (1913-76)Albert HerringBilly BuddOwen WingravePeter GrimesJanet Baker, Owen Brannigan, April CanteloLauris Elms, Geraint Evans, Sylvia FisherPeter Glossop, Heather Harper, Michael LangdonNorma Lumsden, Benjamin Luxon, Peter PearsNigel Rogers, John Shirley-Quirk, Robert TearJennifer Vyvyan, Claire Watson, Jean WatsonAmbrosian SingersWandsworth School Boys’ ChoirRoyal Opera House Covent GardenLondon Symphony OrchestraEnglish Chamber OrchestraVol. 2 Operas 2 A Midsummer Night's Dream Death in Venice Gloriana Phaedra The Rape of Lucretia The Turn of the Screw John Mark Ainsley, Richard van Allan, Elizabeth Bainbridge Janet Baker, Josephine Barstow, James Bowman Owen Brannigan, Joan Cross, Alfred Deller Heather Harper, Elizabeth Harwood, Thomas Hemsley Peter Hoare, Della Jones, Yvonne Kenny Philip Langridge, Norman Lumsden, Benjamin Luxon Arda Mandikian, Alan Opie, Peter Pears John Shirley-Quirk, Jonathan Summers, Robert Tear BrynTerfel, Josephine Veasey, Jennifer Vyvyan Janice Watson, Helen Watts, Willard White English Chamber Orchestra English Opera Group London Symphony Orchestra Steuart Bedford Charles Mackerras […]
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