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2024-04-05 09:27:00
Sea Songs: Brighton Philharmonic in Geirr Tveitt's Hardanger fiddle concerto and other delights
Ragnhild Hemsing and Hardanger fiddle (Photo: Nikolaj Lund)On Sunday, 7 April 2024, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's season finale at the Dome in Brighton features dynamic young conductor Adam Hickox in Sea Songs. Yes, the programme does begin with Britten's Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes' and ends with Debussy's La Mer (written just down the coast in Eastbourne!), but the real meat is in between these. Ragnhild Hemsing is the Hardanger fiddle soloist in Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt's Concerto No. 2 Three Fjords, whilst Joanna Macgregor is the piano soloist in music by the great Japanese film composer, record producer and actor Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died last year.The hardanger fiddle is Norway's national instrument; it probably originated in the 17th century s a hybrid of earlier folk fiddles and the viola d’amore. Its tone is smaller than the violin and‚ with its four sympathetic strings‚ sounds not unlike a treble viol. Geir Tveitt (1908-1981) was a central […]
2024-03-27 08:09:00
Revisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan
[…] and Tcherniakov telling another. But that's his style and from my standpoint it fits ok with me. The representation of the Fallen Heroes bound for Valhalla fared differently, too, highlighted and clearly depicted just by their mugshots and personal data created in a passport-type format flashed regularly on a wide-angled video screen housed in ESCHE's lecture theatre which also provided the setting for the scene featuring the famous Ride of the Valkyies with the Beloved Sisters attending a lecture on warfare. Interesting! And Hoyotoho, too! And as for Brünnhilde's punishment over her disobedient behaviour towards Wotan in respect of the feud between Siegmund and Hunding, her banishment was rather a low-key affair employing no ceremonial procedure or burning rock as is the norm. But inventive, independent as ever, the Warrior Maiden creates a circle of wooden chairs nabbed from ESCHE's lecture theatre, daubs the backs of them with a red […]
2024-03-20 14:26:51
SCRUTINY | Fine Acting, Production Values In Soulpepper & Obsidian’s Three Sisters Marred By Accented Delivery
Director Otu has done a masterful job in finding character, as well as moving large forces around the stage in Inua Ellams’ adaptation of Chekhovs's Three Sisters.
2024-03-12 07:33:00
Upheaval: cellist Janne Fredens & pianist Søren Rastogi in music by four women composers from the years 1911 to 1918
[…] two originally organ piece. The first two elegant and expressive, the third vivid and vigorous, they deserve to be better known and make you wonder what she would have achieved if she had persevered.This is an imaginative and passionate disc. Fredens and Rastogi give committed and vibrant performances of music that is sometimes large-scale and like the women who wrote it, threatens to break the bounds. I could quite easily (and lazily) titled this review, 'Sisters are doing it for themselves' as the disc provides a snapshot of a moment when four women from three different countries were all challenging the status quo and writing their own music.Henriëtta Bosmans (1895-1952) - Sonata for cello and piano (1918)Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) - Sonata for cello and piano (1919)Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) - Nocturne (1911)Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) - Trois pièces (1914)Janne Fredens (cello)Søren Rastogi (piano)OUR Recordings 6.220683 1CD [60.53]Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog […]
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