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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] with a more lyric, expressionist voice creating an intriguing sound world but raising the suspicion that more interest was in the piano with Shapes Tickle being over careful in the vocal writing. The Birdman of Adel Woods by Huw Mears (music) and Susan Darlington (words), performed by Felicitas Wrede (soprano) and Abhisri Chaudhuri (piano), was dark an expressionist in tone, conjuring real atmosphere.Richard's Song by Dawn Walters (music) and Laura Strickland (words), performed by Thomas McGowan (baritone) and Benjamin Collyer (piano), felt very mid-20th century English, attractively lyric and well-written for voice with discreet yet atmospheric piano writing, creating something touching. The Changeling Moss by David Palmer (music) and Lizzie Nolan (words), performed by Laura Coppinger (soprano) accompanied by the composer, featured athletic, quasi-instrumental writing for the voice, impressively performed by Coppinger. The very distinct atmosphere of the piece reflected the poem's tone, but lacked the intriguing sense of irony Lizzie Nolan gave it when […]
South Florida Classical Review
2024-04-15 16:20:20
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2024-04-12 08:35:00
Full of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides
[…] Baroque ensemble, originally written for Early Music Vancouver. It was full of rich textures, and the first part featured two solo violins, emerging in the manner of a concerto grosso, eventually they were lost amidst the throbbing textures of the faster middle section. Throughout, Catlin Smith seemed to be enamoured of the distinctive textures that HIP performances on period instruments can bring. Eventually the material slowed down again and then finally evaporated.Cassandra Miller (Photo: Benjamin Ealovega)Cassandra Miller's concerto, Chanter, began with Miller hearing Shibe singing along to music performed by Scottish smallpipes player Brighde Chaimbeul, in fact Chaimbeul's own arrangement of a North Highland air. Miller multi-layered Shibe's voice, then transferred the ideas to guitar, leaning into the way that the guitar can strum, ripple and thrum. The work is in what Miller describes as four verses and a coda - 'Rippling Sea', 'Bellowing', 'Sleep-chanting', 'Slowing Air' and 'Skye-dreaming', […]
2024-04-08 18:49:45
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