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Commemorations 2024 (Death: Amy Beach)
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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] Abhisri Chaudhuri (piano) took us to France, with an intense account of Debussy's Beau Soir with a lovely sense fragility in tone, followed by the first three of Ravel's Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques. The first suprisingly sober and intent but with a vibrant vibrato colouring the tone, the second plangent and the third wonderfully vivid. Wrede really invested in the songs, inhabiting the performance space.Anusha Merrin (soprano) and Chunmeng Ge (piano) continued with more Debussy and his contemporary Amy Beach (she was just six year younger). Debussy's Nuit d'etoiles was poised yet subdued, though I liked Merrin's lovely youthful-sounding lyric soprano. She was perhaps a bit young to bring of the world-weariness of Beach's Ah Love, but a day but there were some impressive big passions too. Laura Coppinger (soprano) and David Palmer (piano) gave is a rather more challenging contrast. They began with Oliver Knussen's Walt Whitman setting, The Dalliance of Eagles, challenging indeed […]
South Florida Classical Review
2024-04-06 15:48:44
Thanks to a last-minute casting change, one of the 21st century’s […]
2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] Ensemble in a programme entitled American Minimalism, with music by Gabriella Smith, Philip Glass, John Adams and inti figgis-vizueta. The ensemble features four keyboard players, James himself plus Eliza McCarthy, Siwan Rhys, and Hugh Rowlands. The ensemble has its origins in 2017 when Philip Glass was turning 80. James has always been a big fan of Glass's music, particularly that from the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of those who saw Einstein on the Beach in London in 2021 and it changed his life. Another work that he found powerful was Glass' Music in Twelve Parts, written between 1971 and 1974. Something of a cult piece, the work had never been published and so had never been performed by anyone other than the Philip Glass Ensemble. James wrote to Philip Glass to ask if he could put together a performance for Glass's 80th birthday. The result was a performance […]
South Florida Classical Review
2024-03-11 14:47:46
On a humid South Florida evening, a large audience turned out […]
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