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2022-01-26 08:07:05
The Irish Double Bass - Eoghan Desmond, Joseph Groocock, John Kinsella, Ian Wilson, Kevin O’Connell, Deirdre Gribbin, Ryan Molloy, Judith Ring; Malachy Robinson, Gary Beecher; Bandcamp Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 24 January 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Irish double bass player Malachy Robinson brings together contemporary Irish music with a work by his own grandfather in this creative response to the double bass in IrelandMalachy Robinson is the principal double bass with the Irish Chamber Orchestra as well as being an active chamber musician and performing a lot of solo double bass music. His disc, The Irish Double Bass, is something of a personal project; partly it celebrates his reaching 50, partly it is a personal odyssey including not only music by his grandfather but contemporary works that he has played and feels a connection with, and of course it was something of a lockdown project too.So, The Irish […]
2020-03-08 08:40:01
[…] case for five female writers who deserve to be better known: English poet Charlotte Smith, Renaissance poet Lady Mary Wroth, Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant, English jounalist Storm Jameson and Rwandan writer Yolande Mukagasana. BBC Radio 3: The Seven Ages of Woman Sunday 8 March, 1pm Radio 3 has commissioned seven very different composers to write a movement each of an a cappella choral work entitled Seven Ages of Woman. Rhian Samuel, Helena Paish, Francophile Heather Dohollau, Deirdre Gribbin, Emily Hall, Electra Perivolaris and Cecilia McDowall. Each composer has chosen to set a text that they feel represents them and this decade of their lives – from Charlotte Brontë to a poem by commissioned composer Deirdre Gribbin’s son, who has Down’s syndrome. BBC Radio 3: Inside Music – Creative connections with fiddle-singer and composer Nancy Kerr Saturday 7 March, 1pm Nancy Kerr is a multi-award winning violinist, singer and songwriter, who brings […]
2019-10-04 08:01:08
Listening with new ears: Masaaki Suzuki conducts Mendelssohn's Elijah
[…] German version, and Paul Daniel's 1996 recording with the OAE and Bryn Terfel in the title role), but more recent performances have seen the development of the use of choral soloists. So that the seven main roles are still shared between four main soloists, and all the ensembles sung by professional soloists drawn from the choir, and this is what Suzuki did.The Choir of the Enlightenment numbered a little over 30, and of these Alice Gribbin, Sofia Larsson, Emma Walshe, Sarah Denbee, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Rory Carvery, Laurence Kilsby, Jonathan Brown, and Malacy Frame stepped out to perform the vocal ensembles with only the final quartet being performed by the main soloists.Given the forces, this was a very lithe performance of the work. Massive and loud when it needed to be, but the orchestra lacked the all-enveloping sound of modern strings, and the choir similarly had a narrower, leaner more focussed […]
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