Derek Bourgeois News
English composer (b. 1941)
- opera, symphony
- England
- conductor, composer, musicologist, music teacher
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2024-03-20
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2024-02-06 18:50:00
Rusalka, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 4 February 2024
Rusalka – Christiane Karg Prince – Pavel Černoch Foreign Princess – Anna Samuil Vodník – Mika Kares Ježibaba – Anna Kissjudit Gamekeeper – Adam Kutny Kitchen Boy – Clara Nadeshdin Nymphs – Regina Koncz, Rebecka Wallroth, Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Huntsman – Taehan Kim Director – Kornél MundruczóDesigns – Monika PormaleLighting – Felice RossVideo – Rūdolfs BaltiņšChoreography - Candaş BaşDramaturgy – Kata Wéber, Christoph Lang Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinRobin Ticciati (conductor)Images: Gianmarco BresadolaRusalka (Christiane Karg) Director Kornél Mundruczó comes like a breath of fresh air to unsettle our conceptions of Dvořák’s last and, by some way, greatest opera and thus to do precisely what the material demands; or rather, it comes as something bitterly stale, menacing, even poisonous to accomplish what fresh air on its own might not be able. It is certainly refreshing, though it should not be, to have a production that takes class seriously as a form […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-24 01:17:22
BMInt presents a not-so-short history of Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District in connection with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s first performances of the complete opera on January 25th and 27th. Tickets HERE On January 26, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District was presented in Moscow. This was not breaking news. Lady Macbeth had enjoyed almost simultaneous premieres in 1934, at the Maly Opera Theatre in Leningrad on January 22 and then at the Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in Moscow two days later. The piece had elicited high praise from the February 1st edition of Soviet Art: Shostakovich’s new opera is indisputably one of the most significant achievements of our musical and theatrical life. It is in truth the first great, truly outstanding and masterfully constructed operatic work to have been composed in the 16 years since the October Revolution. Over the following two years, […]
2023-10-27 00:00:00
Dohnanyi, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Rawsthorne and British Trombone Concertos (Christian Lindberg, Malcolm Sargent et al)
British Trombone Concertos:01 - 03 Gordon Jacob: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (1955) [19'56]04 - 06 Elgar Howarth: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (1958) [20'04]07 - 08 Derek Bourgois: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, op.114 (1988) [20'34]Christian Lindberg- trombone, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Grant LlewellynBIS CD-658 [recorded November & December 1993; CD issued 1994][digital-download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, WalesRecording engineer: Ingo Petry; Producer: Robert SuffDerek Bourgeois' concerto was written for Christian Lindberg and in 1989 he recorded the version with Wind Band [op.114b] for the short-lived British label, LDR - subsequently reissued by Albany Records. That recording was recently posted on the Susato blog.Alan Rawsthorne:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No. 1 (rev. 1942) * [18'36]04 - 07 Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951) ^ [27'40]Moura Lympany- piano, Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Menges; Denis Matthews- piano, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm SargentWarner […]
2023-09-14 06:23:00
Tragédie lyrique given with great sympathy and style: Passion from Véronique Gens with Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas at Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival
Passion - Véronique Gens, Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas - Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival (Photo: bayreuth.media)Passion: Lully, Henry Desmarest, André Cardinal Destouches, Rebel, Charpentier; Véronique Gens, Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas; Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival at Ordenskirche St GeorgenImmense style and mesmerising performances in the wonderful selection of music from tragédies lyriques by Lully and his contemporariesVéronique Gens recorded her programme Passion with Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas and Les Surprises in 2021. It is an exploration of music written for two singers who inspired Lully, Mademoiselle Saint Christophe and Marie Le Rochois, focussing on music by Lully and his younger contemporaries.Véronique Gens, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas and Les Surprises brought Passion to the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival and performed it on Sunday 10 September 2023 in the splendour of the Ordenskirche St Georgen, Bayreuth. Véronique Gens was joined by an instrumental ensemble of eleven, directed from the harpsichord and organ by Louis-Noel […]
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