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2022-07-14 06:25:30
Summer at Snape
[…] includes Bliss' ballet Checkmate alongside RVW's The Lark Ascending. Other visiting orchestras include the Academy of Ancient Music, the Philharmonia in ballets by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, and Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner. Ben Palmer conducts the Manchester Camerata in a live accompaniment to the Chaplin's film The Kid, whilst the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra is playing an evening of film music.Other visitors include pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque, Angela Hewitt and Christian Blackshaw who joins the Cuarteto Casals, guitarist Miloš, trumpeter Alison Balsam who joins the Britten Sinfonia, and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins Chineke! Orchestra and conductor Kevin John Edusei for a programme which includes Shostakovich's Cello Concerto. There is also a chance to hear the Emerson Quartet and the Takacs Quartet. The jazz and blues programme includes Ayanna Witter-Johnson, the Joe Stilgoe Trio, the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra and many more.Reaffirming Snape Maltings’ commitment to the development of young […]
2022-06-04 11:41:56
The Ladies’ Morning Musical Club is pleased to announce the 2022-23 season. The 131st season will begin on September 11th, 2022, featuring acclaimed English pianist Christian Blackshaw. The 131st season will consist of the following dates and artists: September 11, 2022: Christian Blackshaw, piano October 2, 2022: Los Angeles Piano Trio, piano trio October 23, [...]
2021-05-11 08:54:04
Celebrating 10 years of lieder in Leeds - Leeds Lieder's 2021 festival welcomes audiences back for an action-packed weekend in June
Leeds Lieder, artistic director Joseph Middleton, is 10 this year and having kept the lieder flag flying in Leeds with a series of live-streamed concerts from Leeds Town Hall, Leeds Lieder is plannnint to welcome audiences to Leeds Town Hall for its 2021 festival from 17 to 20 June 2021, though the concerts will be live-streamed as well. It is an exciting programme and an action packed four days including: Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) and Christian Blackshaw (piano) in Mahler's Rückert Lieder Iain Burnside's exploration of Richard Wagner and the Wesendoncks, A View from the Villa Natalya Romaniw (soprano) and Iain Burnside (piano) in Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov, Grieg and Rachmaninov Britten's five canticles with Mark Padmore (tenor), Joseph Middleton (piano), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Peter Brathwaite (baritone), Olivia Jageurs (harp), Ben Goldscheider (horn) A late-night show from the Hermes Experiment with music by Errollyn Wallen, Raymond Yiu, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Emily […]
2021-02-21 11:25:54
A Life On-Line: the 'wrong' Xerxes, RVW in Australia, Ash Wednesday at Wigmore Hall, and Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
[…] lovely to hear this large-scale pieces of late Tudor polyphony, works which look both forward and back. Interleaving them were smaller pieces, Tye's Peccavimus cum patribus and the anonymous Ballad of Joy along with actor Nicola Harrison reciting popular rhymes and nursery rhymes which are link to Mary's reign. A fascinating idea, beautifully executed [Marian Consort] There was more words and music from the Wigmore Hall on Friday, when mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and pianist Christian Blackshaw were joined by actor Ralph Fiennes for a programme of Tchaikovsky songs interspersed with readings from poems by Alexander Pushkin (on whose writings Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Mazepa and Queen of Spades were based), Mikhail Lermontov (whose words Tchaikovsky set in The love of a dead man), Afanasy Fet (Tchaikovsky had a particular fondness for Fet's poetry and set a number including the first song in the recital), plus the composer's own letters. The selection […]
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