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2023-12-02 12:00:44
[…] the masterpiece of a composer still, nearly a century after his death, awaiting critical redemption. It doesn’t hold back, which makes others squirm.A new recording, in German, may be the longed-for boost the mass needs. Mark Elder, a natural for this work, rouses his forces into life with subtlety and focus, as well as gusto. All praise to the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Collegium Musicum Choir and soloists Gemma Summerfield, Claudia Huckle, Bror Magnus Tødenes and, in the prominent baritone role, Roderick Williams. I was converted.
2022-02-25 09:05:21
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) has announced the appointment of six assistant conductors, the first time the orchestra has appointed a cohort of such rather than a single one. Bertie Baigent, Olivia Clarke, Otis Enokido-Lineham, Jack Lovell-Huckle, Charlotte Politi and Konstantinos Terzakis start work with the CBSO in March and will be assigned at least four weeks of engagement over the next fifteen months to assist in a range of activities from family concerts to international tours, world premiere performances, and everything in between. There will also be the opportunity for meetings and workshops with musicians and management, plus an open invitation to attend all rehearsals and concerts taking place from March 2022 to June 2023. Bertie Baigent is music director of Waterperry Opera Festival and one of the finalists in the Rotterdam International Conducting Competition 2022, Olivia Clarke is the current English National Opera Mackerras Fellow, Otis Enokido-Lineham is […]
2021-08-22 19:31:00
Royal Albert HallRameau: Hippolyte et Aricie: ‘Bruit de tonnerre’, ‘Ritournelle’ Rameau: Dardanus: Tambourins I & II Rameau: Castor et Pollux: ‘Tristes apprêts’ Joseph Bologne: Symphony no.2 in D major Rameau: Dardanus: ‘Lieux funestes’ Rameau: Platée: ‘Orage’ Rameau: Les Indes galantes: Chaconne Mozart: Requiem in D minor, KV 626 Samantha Clarke (soprano)Claudia Huckle (contralto) Nick Pritchard (tenor) William Thomas (bass) The National Youth Chamber Choir Britten Sinfonia David Bates (conductor)A peculiar concert, this: much to enjoy and indeed savour in a first half of eighteenth-century French music, followed by, not to put too fine a point on it, the most bizarrely, downright perversely conducted performance of any sacred work by Mozart I have had the misfortune to hear. Let us begin, however, at the beginning, with selected extracts from operas by Rameau. That his stage works are not staples of our opera houses says everything about the latter—including their […]
2020-02-03 18:09:00
Mendelssohn Elijah at the Barbican - Oramo, BBC SO
Today is my hero Felix Mendelssohn's 211th birthday. Normally I'd translate a Lieder text, but much more fun to look forward to Friday's concert at the Barbican Hall, London, when Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO in Mendelssohn's Elijah, with soloists Elizabeth Watts, Claudia Huckle, Alan Clayton, and Johann Reuter, and the BBC Symphony Chorus. Book here - good seats still available.Droughts, deserts, false gods, angels, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis and a firestorm. Plenty of drama in the Bible. Perhaps what drew Felix Mendelssohn to Elijah was the personality of the prophet himself. Mendelssohn's St Paul was written to please his father, but Elijah springs from much deeper sources. Christians may have monopolized the oratorio, especially in this country, but fundamentally Elijah reflects something even deeper in Mendelssohn's spirit. Although he was a devout Lutheran, never did he deny nor denigrate his Jewish roots. Elijah's […]
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