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British musician (1907-1982)
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2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
[…] in festival concerts with world-class performers and conductors. And always striving for the best, Britten and Pears brought to the Suffolk coast a host of international stars including such world-renowned figures as the German lyric baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the American violinist/conductor Yehudi Menuhin, who, incidentally, spent most of his performing career in Britain, the Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter and the Russian cellist Mstislav (Slava) Rostropovich as well as the likes of Kathleen Ferrier, Dennis Brain, Clifford Curzon and the Amadeus String Quartet. A coterie of emerging talent made their way to Suffolk, too, that included Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström, the American pianist Murray Perahia and the English-born virtuoso classical guitarist/lutenist Julian Bream while the inaugural festival of 1948 witnessed a staging of Britten’s opera Albert Herring at the Jubilee Hall and the first performance of his cantata Saint Nicolas at the Parish Church with a trio of lectures delivered by E.M. Forster […]
2023-09-19 08:31:00
18th Malcolm Arnold Festival
Photo montage - Wise Music; (photo permissions © Fritz Curzon Photography, ©June Mendoza)The 18th Malcolm Arnold Festival, celebrating Northampton's colourful and charismatic son, returns in October with a weekend of live events and a digital live-stream. On 14 and 15 October, Northampton will be filled with Arnold-related musical events. John Gibbons conducts the Northampton Symphony Orchestra in a concert that includes a suite from Arnold's 1954 ballet, Rinaldo and Armida (choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton), and Hilary Davan Wetton conducts the LGT String Orchestra (an ensemble featuring highly talented young soloists between the ages of 13 and 23 from over 20 nations) in a programme that include Arnold's Oboe Concerto with Melanie Ragge and his Serenade for Guitar and Strings with Hugh Millington.Throughout weekend there are performances given by The Enderby Band, the Nick Budd Brass Quintet and Northamptonshire County Youth Concert Band featuring Arnold's music for brass and wind, and there […]
2022-06-04 05:15:00
Classical Music News of the Week, June 4, 2022
[…] and teachers. The small program size and unique resident faculty model create a tailored educational experience, allowing each student to reach their fullest potential.For more information about the Colburn School, visit https://www.colburnschool.edu/--Lisa Bellamore, Crescent CommunicationsStephen Hough Awarded KnighthoodThe pianist, composer, and writer Stephen Hough has been awarded a Knighthood for Services to Music in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2022. He is the first British-born classical pianist to be made a Sir since Sir Clifford Curzon in 1977.Hough's discography of 70 recordings, spanning four centuries of repertoire, has won numerous accolades including eight Gramophone Awards. As a composer, he has been commissioned by Westminster Abbey and Cathedral, the National Gallery in London, Musée du Louvre, the Cliburn Foundation, the Takács Quartet, and the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, among others. As a writer, his book of essays Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More won a 2020 Royal Philharmonic Society Award. He […]
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2021-03-06 19:39:30
ENO has put its Lilian Bayliss studios up for sale, saying it needs a more more ‘flexible and modern’ rehearsal facility. The studios, in West Hampstead, were previously Decca’s recording base, home to Vera Lynn, Benjamin Britten, Kathleen Ferrier, Clifford Curzon and countless other legends. They have been disintegrating for decades for want of strategic […]
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