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2022-07-20 13:23:00
21st Birthday: Oxford Lieder Festival comes of age with a celebration of Friendship in Song
This Autumn, Oxford Lieder Festival celebrates its 21st birthday with a fortnight of song (from 14 to 29 October 2022) under the banner Friendship in Song: An Intimate Art. The focus of the festival is of song-making as a social art, from gatherings round the piano to salons to composers writing for friends. Mark Padmore will be artist in residence, giving an all-Schubert recital, performing lute songs, giving a lecture on Britten's poets, being in conversation with Kate Kennedy as well as leading the festival's Mastercourse with young singers.Holywell Music RoomBaritone Thomas Oliemans will be giving a performance of Winterreise, accompanying himself on the piano, and there will be appearances from Dame Sarah Connolly, Christoph Prégardien, Kate Royal, Carolyn Sampson, Camilla Tilling, Dorothea Röschmann, Roderick Williams, Birgid Steinberger, Thomas Oliemans, Claire Booth, Benjamin Appl, Christopher Purves, James Gilchrist, Iestyn Davies, Christine Rice, Werner Güra, Sarah Wegener and Julian Prégardien. But it is with the themed events […]
2022-07-17 14:42:47
Baroque gem: Hasse's early serenata gets an intriguing modern staging in Buxton with some stylish singing.
[…] Wilson & choir of Girton College, Cambridge return to the richly textured music of Marc'Antonio Ingegneri for a second disc on Toccata Classics - record reviewBeyond the Garden: Developing an Opera, composer Stephen McNeff explores how he and librettist Aoife Mannix developed their new opera - feature articleEvoking the Ancien Régime: grandeur & imagination in Jean-Joseph de Mondonville's Grands Motets - record reviewAdded depth: Julien Van Mellaerts & James Baillieu mix Die schöne Müllerin with the poems not set by Schubert, read by Christopher Purves, to remarkable effect - record reviewHome
2022-07-16 11:21:46
Rediscovered rarities, new opera and young artists: I chat to Rosetta Cucchi, artistic director of Wexford Festival Opera
[…] Wilson & choir of Girton College, Cambridge return to the richly textured music of Marc'Antonio Ingegneri for a second disc on Toccata Classics - record reviewBeyond the Garden: Developing an Opera, composer Stephen McNeff explores how he and librettist Aoife Mannix developed their new opera - feature articleEvoking the Ancien Régime: grandeur & imagination in Jean-Joseph de Mondonville's Grands Motets - record reviewAdded depth: Julien Van Mellaerts & James Baillieu mix Die schöne Müllerin with the poems not set by Schubert, read by Christopher Purves, to remarkable effect - record reviewArun Ghosh's The Canticle of the Sun at the Spitalfields Music Festival - concert reviewNew ways of working: composer Andrew Chen has two contrasting pieces at this year's Cheltenham Music Festival - interviewHome
2022-07-15 08:21:15
Farewell Comrade: Music written in the shadow of death, Theresienstadt 1941-1945
[…] Wilson & choir of Girton College, Cambridge return to the richly textured music of Marc'Antonio Ingegneri for a second disc on Toccata Classics - record reviewBeyond the Garden: Developing an Opera, composer Stephen McNeff explores how he and librettist Aoife Mannix developed their new opera - feature articleEvoking the Ancien Régime: grandeur & imagination in Jean-Joseph de Mondonville's Grands Motets - record reviewAdded depth: Julien Van Mellaerts & James Baillieu mix Die schöne Müllerin with the poems not set by Schubert, read by Christopher Purves, to remarkable effect - record reviewArun Ghosh's The Canticle of the Sun at the Spitalfields Music Festival - concert reviewNew ways of working: composer Andrew Chen has two contrasting pieces at this year's Cheltenham Music Festival - interviewUnsung Heroines: Lauren Fagan & Opera Holland Park Young Artists in a celebration of women composers and more - concert reviewHome
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