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Workshops, Welsh song for families, Cleveland Watkiss, Mark Padmore, Hera Hyesang Park - the Manchester Song Festival 2024
Manchester Song FestivalThe 2024 Manchester Song Festival is at Stoller Hall from 1 to 3 March 2024 with a lively weekend of concerts, workshops and family events. Performances begin with jazz singer Cleveland Watkiss, with his distinctive blend of improvisation/counterpoint harmony, electronics, breakbeat loops and basslines (all live and from his mouth), in VocalSuite, described as 'elusive acapella vocal improvisation performance that uses the atmosphere of venue, mood and interactivity of audience to present a performance of the moment'.The following evening, tenor Mark Padmore will be performing Schumann, Frank Bridge, Michael Tippett, Rebecca Clarke and Tansy Davies, and the festival ends with a recital from Korean opera singer Hera Hyesang Park and pianist Bretton Brown in a mixture of Korean art songs and music by Samuel Barber, Alma Mahler, Respighi, Rossini, Schubert, Caplet, Cecilia Livingston, Thomas Dunhill and Errollyn Wallen.There is also a chance to catch vocal students from Chetham's School of Music in […]
2022-07-19 14:48:00
City of London Sinfonia's 2022/23 season - The World Rediscovered
[…] the Devil features music by Vivaldi, Locatelli, Piazzolla and Copland, plus traditional folk music, to create a whirlwind musical tour that explores how the diabolical has inspired composers past and present. Then Painting with Music is a kaleidoscopic concert curated by CLS’ Principal Clarinet, Katherine Spencer, and an invitation to enter a different kind of art gallery, where pictures are painted with sounds instead of colour with music by Cecilia McDowall, Jean Françaix, Telemann, Henri Tomasi, and André Caplet plus improvisations and composer and sound artist, Gawain Hewitt, will present a sonic guide book for each piece.Choreographer, movement director and performer, Sarah Dowling, will be taking up the role of CLS' Artist-in-Residence for the 2022/23 season. Sarah Dowling is perhaps best known for her twenty year-long collaboration with ground-breaking immersive theatre specialists, Punchdrunk. She will work with the musicians to develop their skills and confidence in using movement to enhance story-telling and engagement with […]
2022-02-14 13:18:08
The new album features Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 and André Caplet's Epiphanie (d'après une légende éthiopienne). Dvořák's B minor Cello Concerto was written between November 1894 and February 1895 and remains to this day as one of the most popular pieces in the cello repertoire. During this time, the Bohemian […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-01-15 12:00:21
Williams and Roger Vignoles are on exquisite form on Mirages. Plus a fitting testament to the late, great film composer • The album Mirages: The Art of French Song (Champs Hill), with the baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Roger Vignoles, grew out of a Wigmore Hall recital, recreating the intimacy and shape of a concert programme to delicious effect. In no area of repertoire, it seems, is Williams not at ease as well as expert. Recent Schubert song cycles (with pianist Iain Burnside) and English repertoire stand out in his varied discography. Now, with Vignoles as an ever idiomatic and responsive partner, he has turned to French song. Opening with the sensual mystery of late Fauré – four songs, including Reflets dans l’eau and Danseuse – the duo steer gracefully to atmospheric ballads by Debussy’s friend André Caplet, spiky Arthur Honegger miniatures and Ravel in Spanish mood (Don Quichotte à Dulcinée). […]
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