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2024-01-31 07:58:00
A crate of flowers, which experts assure me are very choice and of admirable rarity: Ensemble Hesperi's crowdfunder for their disc themed on Telemann's love of gardening
[…] the new CD from Ensemble Hesperi (Magdalena Loth-Hill, Baroque violin, Mary-Jannet Leith, recorders, Florence Pitt, Baroque cello, Thomas Allery, harpsichord). This will be the ensemble's second CD, following their debut, Full of the Highland Humours [see my review]. The new disc, A Gift for your Garden will be appearing on BIS records and will feature music by Telemann, including one of his Paris Quartets and a solo flute fantasia, Handel and Graun, along with three of Scottish composer James Oswald's floral airs.Read more and support Ensemble Hesperi via their Crowdfunding page.
2024-01-11 08:51:00
Created by Nigerian/Romanian pianist Rebeca Omordia in 2019, the African Concert Series is returning for a sixth season in 2024. A highlight is a whole day of concerts at Wigmore Hall on 17 February 2024.The day begins with a recital from the Seattle-based Ghanaian/American pianist William Chapman Nyaho. Piano music from Africa and the African Diaspora features music by Nigerian Joshua Uzoigwe (1946-2005), Ghanaians Fred Onovwerosuoke (born 1946) and Robert Kwami (1954-2004), Black British Samuel Coleridge Taylor (1875-1912), Jamaican Oswald Russell (1933-2012), and African Americans Hale Smith (1925-2009) and Margaret Bonds (1913-1972).The afternoon features a programme of Spirituals performed by Leon Bosch (double bass) and Rebeca Omordia (piano) in arrangements by Leon Bosch. The evening performance features African chamber music by London-born Nigerian Tunde Jegede, performed by Tunde Jegede, kora and cello, Mohamed Gueye percussion and NOK Orchestra including Tunde Jegede's Mandé Suite, Kora Concerto, and Invocation along with his arrangements of traditional African songs.In the early part […]
2023-09-29 08:28:00
From a 1000 year old Celtic lament to Judith Weir and a Jasdeep Singh Degun premiere with the Scottish Ensemble: Kings Place's 2024 Scotland Unwrapped
[…] London premiere of Aileen Sweeney’s new work for percussion quartet [7 Dec].Jasdeep Singh Degun (Photo: Robert Leslie)Scottish classical music includes the earliest-known liturgical music from the 16th century Dunkeld Partbooks from the Marian Consort [18 Oct], the polyphony of 17th century composer Robert Carver from the Sixteen [26 Jan], triumphant anthems of the 1603 union between Scotland and England from ORA Singers [15 Mar], whilst Ensemble Hesperi conjure up a musical evening in Enlightenment Edinburgh, when James Oswald’s music brushed shoulders with Handel and Geminiani [20 Oct].The Maxwell Quartet will be exploring Scottish folk-music including a a thousand year old Celtic lament [22 Feb], whilst tenor Nicky Spence surveys the astonishing inspiration of Robert Burns on songwriters from Amy Beach to Shostakovich, Schumann, Britten and Coleridge-Taylor in a recital with fellow Scot Eleanor Dennis, featuring a premiere by Helen Grime [24 Apr].The BBC Singers honour Dame Judith Weir in her 70th birthday year [9 […]
2023-09-28 08:05:00
Dramatick Opera: Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company in Purcell and Dryden's King Arthur at Temple
[…] lovely little asides and comments.This presentation meant that there was always a dramatic context for the music and the singers took advantage of this, giving us some vivid cameos and extended moments, incarnating characters in music rather than simply presenting a musical score. The rationale of the dramaturgy was left to us, and that is what happened at the first performance; the work was intended as an allegorical comment (King Arthur=Charles II, Emmeline=the British Nation, Oswald=Parliament etc.), but Dryden's text as presented in 1691 gave no external pointers.This was quite a small-scale performance, the five singers covering solos and ensembles. James Way was a very last-minute stand-in for Nick Pritchard who was ill, yet there was never a moment when you suspected that. Tenor Samuel Boden sang the alto solos as high tenor solos, as probably happened in Purcell's day. The instrumental ensemble was similarly tight, seven strings plus three […]
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