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English organist, composer and teacher
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Easter Festival at St John's Smith Square
St John's Smith Square2024 marks the 300th anniversary of the first performance of Bach's St John Passion, and St John's Smith Square will be marking this with a performance from Stephen Layton, Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with James Gilchrist as the Evangelist on Friday 29 March 2024 as the culmination of this year's Easter Festival at St John's Smith Square.The festival, which runs through Holy Week, also includes the National Youth Choir in Fauré's Requiem, whilst the Southbank Sinfonia is joining forces with the Purcell Singers and conductors Mark Ford and Jonathan Schranz for a concert that pairs Mozart's Requiem with Eric Whitacre's When David Heard, Knut Nystedt's Immortal Bach and Kerry Andrew's O Nata Lux.Lunchtime concerts include organist Roger Sayer in Marcel Dupré's Symphonie-Passion plus music by Bach and Alfred Hollins, and the Civil Service Choir, conductor Stephen Hall, in masses by Schubert and Haydn.Full […]
2020-01-11 06:20:00
Classical Music News of the Week, January 11, 2020
[…] collection of works from the 18th and 19th centuries on the Miller-Scott Organ. Concerts at Saint Thomas continues their 2019-20 season on Saturday, February 15 at 3:00 pm with the third of five Grand Organ Series performances on the Miller-Scott Organ at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (on West 53rd Street), NYC. Organ recitalist Nathan Laube will perform a program of works by esteemed composers from the 18th and 19th centuries including Beethoven, Bach, and Hollins. Laube will also perform his own transcriptions of Liszt's Sonata in B minor, and Wagner's Overture to Tannhauser. For more information, visit https://ci.ovationtix.com/35174/performance/10412680 --Andrew Ousley, Unison MediaPianist Jonathan Biss Embarks on Seven-City Tour As part of the culminating season of his decade-long focus on the music of Beethoven, pianist Jonathan Biss performs the composer's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major ("Emperor") with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, led by Osmo Vänskä, on its first […]
2019-10-15 06:31:22
A work of scholarship and a fine performance: Academy of Ancient Music's new recording of Handel's Brockes Passion
[…] so that it is familiar in other situations!It is important that performances like this one be given uncut, so that we can experience the work in full but I imagine that if the work is to become a more regular visitor to the concert hall then it will need trimming and re-shaping.The book which accompanies this performance includes 10 articles by Richard Egarr, Leo Duarte, Alexander Van Ingen, Dr Ruth Smith, Seren Charrington-Hollins, Prof. Joachim Whaley, Dr Bettina Varwig, Jane GLover and Joseph Crouch, providing full information about Leo Duarte's new edition as well as the full background to the work and the performances. There are even helpful lists of performances of musical settings of Brockes' Passion Text (1711-1750), recordings and broadcasts of the Handel's setting, and recordings of other composers' settings. Plus of course, the complete libretto.The scholarship, performances and recording could not have taken place […]
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