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2024-04-05 08:55:00
West Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season
[…] conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra with soloists Soraya Mafi and Nicky Spence. The first opera production is Verdi's Falstaff, directed and designed by Richard Studer and conducted by Jonathan Lyness. Studer and Lyness have a long association with the festival dating right back to its early days. The production features Simon Thorp in the title role with John-Kristof Bouton, Galina Averina, Carolyn Dobbin, Trystan Llyr Griffiths and Lorena Paz Nieto.An intriguing concert offering is the collaboration between wine-expert Oz Clarke and the Armonico Consort, for an evening devoted to music and gin! There will be Purcell, Handel and Dowland with soprano Eloise Irving and countertenor William Towers, plus Oz Clarke on the history of gin.Stephen Higgins conducts Puccini's Suor Angelica in a production directed by John Ramster, with Jenny Stafford in the title role and Susan Bickley as La Zia Principessa. And before the opera, Peter Medhurst is giving a talk on Puccini and his women […]
2024-04-01 08:07:00
Moving intimacy and sense of communication: Bach's St Matthew Passion from the Academy of Ancient Music, music director Laurence Cummings and just eight singers
Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion - Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings at Barbican Hall (Photo: Academy of Ancient Music)Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion; Anna Dennis, Tim Mead, Nicholas Mulroy, George Humphreys, Mhairi Lawson, Magid El-Bushra, Paul Hopwood, Rodney Earl Clarke, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; Barbican HallReviewed 29 March 2024 (Good Friday)Just eight soloists and 28 instrumentalists create a sense of intimacy yet profound communication, filling the hall in a way that made the whole a moving experience.Some of Johann Sebastian Bach's masterworks from the 1730s and 1740s, such as the Mass in B minor and the Art of Fugue, not only have no apparent performance tradition from Bach's time but also leave us uncertain as to the exact performance forces that Bach envisaged. But an earlier masterwork, the St Matthew Passion, has a clear performance tradition from Bach's time, premiered in 1727, Bach performed it again […]
2024-03-25 11:08:01
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2024-03-06 09:47:00
Congratulations to all the winners at the 2024 RPS Awards, and a special mention for Jasdeep Singh Degun, the first Indian Classical musician to receive the Instrumentalist award
Jasdeep Singh Degun at the RPS Awards 2024 (Photo: Robin Clewley)Congratulations to everyone who was involved in last night's Royal Philharmonic Society Awards in Manchester, both the winners and all those terrific names who were nominated. A significant highlight was the Opera and Music Theatre Award, awarded to Ukrainian composers Illia Razumeiko and Roman Grigoriv for their opera Chornobyldorf and they travelled specially from Ukraine for the event. Sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun received the Instrumentalist award. The first Indian Classical musician and the first sitarist to receive this award. Degun was also shortlisted for the Opera award and the Large-scale composition award.Leah Broad received the Storytelling award for her book Quartet, about Doreen Carwithen, Dorothy Howell, Ethel Smyth and Rebecca Clarke. Composer Laurence Osborn received the Chamber-scale Composition award for TOMB! written for GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble. Kaija Saariaho received the Large-scale composition award for her final opera, Innocence. Whilst this award […]
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