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2021-01-17 10:27:27
A Life On-Line: Julia Child and Little Tich in music, Rossini's Armida at the Met
[…] and uncompromising, the work uses Tsvetaeva's poems about the purpose of art to create something disturbing. A challenging choice for a staging, but a rewarding one. [English Touring Opera] Having interviewed Edmund Aldhouse, director of music at Ely Cathedral, last year [see my interview], it was great to catch up on BBC Radio 3 with the cathedral and the choir for Epiphany Evensong (actually recorded in November!), with music by Warlock, Clucas, Mendelssohn, and Herbert Sumsion [BBC Radio3]. Handel & Hendrix in London posted a lovely video of the current group of Handel House Talent, recorded in concert at the Handel House in December. We heard music by Handel, Bach, Corrette, Boni and Monteverdi, a lovely mix including one of Corrette's delightful Symphonies de Noël, something from Messiah and from the Christmas Oratorio, ending unseasonably but deligtfully with the final duet from L'Incoronazione di Poppea. Performers were Abel Balazs (violin), […]
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2018-08-09 06:10:45
Death of a prominent British organist, 88
The organist and choir conductor Donald Hunt died on Saturday. A Gloucester lad, he studied with Elgar’s friend Herbert Sumsion, he became city organist of Leeds in the 1950s and Organist and Master of the Choristers at Worcester Cathedral in 1976. As such, he served as artistic director of the annual Three Choirs Festival. A respected […]
2014-12-25 17:00:17
Paper chase
[…] the composer’s original intentions as closely as possible, we went back to the available manuscript sources. On this Naxos recording, therefore, we hope to give rigorously faithful performances of these long-matured and meticulously sculpted scores.” Here’s a sample of the fruits of his labours , from L’apprenti sorcier. Finally, a bit of audience participation. I’m the proud, but concerned owner of a copperplate original manuscript by a former English cathedral organist and composer, Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995). In 1979 he wrote an anthem titled They that go down to the sea in ships (8.554823 ). It’s frequently performed and not infrequently recorded. Where to find a suitable home for that manuscript before I hit my own final bar-lines? Maybe you can think of a suggestion, other than one involving cardboard boxes and a charity shop, while listening to the opening of the piece .
2013-07-19 11:00:51
Sea, hear
[…] dramatic verses from Psalm 107. Purcell wrote They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships to celebrate King James II’s survival of a shipwreck in 1685; it’s particularly noted for the basso profundo D setting of the matching word as the sailors are cast down into the ‘deep’. Three centuries on, the best-known setting of the text is the anthem They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships (Naxos 8.554823 ) by Herbert Sumsion , the long-serving organist and choirmaster of Gloucester Cathedral in the UK, who knew Elgar well and was considered a good friend by Vaughan Williams, which brings us full circle and seems to be a good place to drop anchor.
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