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2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
Britten: The Burning Fiery Furnace - Aldeburgh Festival, Orford Church, 1966 (Photo: John Richardson / Britten Pears Arts)Flashing through life, this year’s Aldeburgh Festival notches up its 75th edition and features a stellar line-up of international performers offering a wealth of music across a wholesome 17 days. Festival regular, Tony Cooper, reports.Founded by Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Eric Crozier in 1948, the Aldeburgh Festival, originally centred on the Borough’s cosy and intimate Jubilee Hall in Crabbe Street with a seating capacity of just 236. However, when Britten and Pears conceived the bright idea of turning the Victorian-built malt-house at Snape, situated about five miles inland from Aldeburgh, into an 832-seat venue, Snape Maltings Concert Hall was born. Officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1967, the Snape Maltings Concert Hall suffered serious fire damage two years later, re-opening in time for the Aldeburgh Festival the following year. The larger […]
2022-07-21 05:01:00
New Releases, No. 33 (CD reviews)
[…] had listened to two of the of previous three releases from this ECM “Prism” series by the Danish String Quartet, one a few times, the other just once (and cursorily, at that, I will admit, having not quite “gotten” the first), the “line of connection” never connected with me. This time, however: POW!For whatever reason, from the opening notes of the Bach fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier, arranged for string quartet by Emanuel Aloys Förster, I felt the spirit of the late quartets. As the young Danes moved from Bach to Beethoven, the shift of gears was nearly imperceptible. Later, as the foursome turned from Beethoven to Mendelssohn, that shift, although more perceptible, was anything but abrupt. From start to finish, Prism IV is a rewarding musical experience that truly does reveal a line though genres and generations. You don’t have to read the liner notes to appreciate that Beethoven […]
2022-04-23 07:42:00
Korros: I chat to the trio about rediscovering Elizabeth Poston's trio for flute, clarinet and harp
Korros (Nicholas Ellis, Camilla Pay, Eliza Marshall) The trio Korros consists of the intriguing combination of clarinet (Nicholas Ellis), flute (Eliza Marshall) and harp (Camilla Pay), a line up of instruments that is relatively rarely encountered. For the group's debut disc, on Convivium Records, they have recorded Elizabeth Poston's Trio for flute, clarinet and harp, a work that like much of Poston's music seems to have rather fallen under the radar. Also on the disc are other rare Poston works alongside music by Howard Blake, Catrin Finch, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Nicholas Ellis. I recently joined up with all three members of the trio by Zoom to chat about the Elizabeth Poston and more. Whilst the line-up of flute, viola and harp is relatively common for trios, that of flute, clarinet and harp is quite rare and the players in Korros are not familiar with any other […]
2021-10-02 04:31:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 2, 2021
Minnesota Orchestra Announces “This Is Minnesota Orchestra” Line-Up Minnesota Orchestra concerts will continue to be available for television, radio and streaming audiences this fall, even as the Orchestra returns to a regular weekly schedule of performances for in-person audiences at Orchestra Hall. Audiences will be able to access four live Minnesota Orchestra concerts between October 1 and December 31, 2021, on Twin Cities PBS (TPT-2), as well as on the Orchestra’s website and social media channels, as part of the “This Is Minnesota Orchestra” series. The Orchestra’s Friday night Classical concerts will continue to be broadcast live on the radio, as part of a longstanding partnership with YourClassical Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). The concerts designated for television broadcast and livestreaming, a co-production with TPT, will feature Music Director Osmo Vänskä leading Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite (Friday, October 1, 8 p.m.); conductor Sarah Hicks leading a Young People’s Concert collaboration with […]
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