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2021-12-20 18:06:00
Barbican Hall Harriet Eyley (soprano)Jess Dandy (contralto)Stuart Jackson (tenor)James Newby (baritone) Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge (director, organ: Richard Pinel) Britten Sinfonia David Watkin (conductor) Messiahs take many forms. They did during the eighteenth century; they did in the nineteenth; they did in the twentieth; despite the more or less complete victory of ‘authentic’—was ever the term less apt than for this work?—performance practices in the rest of Handel’s œuvre, they have continued to do so in the twenty-first. Sadly, even tragically, the video of that inimitable ‘Handel meets Pop with Messias’, starring the still-more-inimitable Robbin Casey, seems to have vanished not only from YouTube but the planet. (Please do let me know if you have a copy of the original broadcast!) But we still have options ranging from Mozart to McCreesh, from Beecham to Britten Sinfonia. The small forces employed here, including a tiny orchestra (strings 3.3.2.2.1) and a […]
2021-06-10 19:47:31
The ABC Young Performers Awards announced six semifinalists: Double Bassist Jason Henery (20, Sydney) Pianist Tony Lee (29, New South Wales) Pianist Robbin Reza (26, Sydney) Flautist Eliza Shephard (27, Victoria) Cellist Benett Tsai (18, New South Wales) Violinist Edward Walton (15, Victoria) Previous winners include Adele Anthony, Simon Tedeschi, Li-Wei Qin, Emily Sun and VC Artist Suyeon […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2019-10-10 23:00:00
John Eliot Gardiner: Britten - War Requiem & Spring Symphony
Benjamin Britten:1.01 - 1.12 Spring Symphony, op.44* [41'31]1.13 - 1.15 Hymn to St. Cecilia, op.27 [9'46]1.16 - 1.20 Five Flower Songs, op.47 [10'33]1.21 + 1.22 + 2.01 - 2.17 War Requiem, op.66# [83'19] The Monteverdi Choir*Alison Hagley- soprano; Catherine Robbin- alto; John Mark Ainsley- tenor; Boy and Girl Choristers of Salisbury Cathedral; Philharmonia Orchestra #Luba Orgonasova- soprano; Anthony Rolfe Johnson- tenor; Boje Skovhus- baritone; Tolz Boys Choir; NDR Chorus; NDR Symphony Orchestraall conducted by John Eliot GardinerDeutsche Grammophon 459 5092 (recorded June 1995 and August 1992#; this CD release 2002)(CD-rip; flacs,50-page booklet, cover and inlay scans)Recording venues: Walthamstow Town Hall, London and St. Marienkirche, Lubeck#Recording engineers: Gernot von Schultzendorff and Ulrich Vette#Producers: Nicholas Parker and Karl-August Naegler#This wonderful set is posted here primarily for the War Requiem as the Spring Symphony and Songs, in their original CD release, have already been posted here on MIMIC by friend Davide in one of his monumental […]
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