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2024-04-04 06:36:00
JAM's annual Music of Our Time concert took place last week, on 20 March 2024 at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London and featured music by Toh Yan Ee, Steve Richer, Marisse Cato, George W. Parris, Anselm McDonnell, Christopher Churcher and Jonathan Woolgar, plus JAM's 2010 commission, Tarik O’Regan's The Night's Untruth and their 2024 commission, Isabelle Ryder's Illumination.If you missed the concert, then JAM has produced a lovely little video on YouTube introducing it.
2024-02-07 11:32:00
Music of our Time: JAM's exploration of new music for choir, brass quintet and organ returns to St Bridge's Church
Onyx Brass at JAM's Music of our Time at St Bride's Church, Fleet StreetJAM's Music of our Time returns to St Bride's Church, Fleet Street on Wednesday 20 March 2024, with a programme of new works for choir, brass quintet and organ. The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Onyx Brass and Simon Hogan (organ), conducted by Michael Bawtree will be performing nine works, three world premieres and six London premieres.The concert revisits JAM’s 2010 commission by Tarik O’Regan, The Night’s Untruth which explores the use of sleep as a metaphor via excerpts from poems written in the 17th to 20th centuries. There is also the world premiere of a JAM commission by Isabelle Ryder, participant of the Composers’ Residency 2023. Illumination, for organ and two trumpets, pays homage to St Brigid (St Bride) of Kildare, patron saint of St Bride’s Church.Having received over 200 entries to its 2023 Call for Music, JAM has […]
2023-09-09 09:10:00
Operatic arias & overtures by Frederick the Great's court composer, Graun, in the opera house built by the king's sister
[…] Flavio (which opened the festival), an intriguing combination as Handel set the same subject (albeit with a different libretto). The overture featured oboes, bassoon and horns, and began with galant excitement contrasting with sections for solo ensemble including an elaborate solo for Martyna Pastuszka, leading to a final section full of perky bounce. What I noticed from the four overtures in the concert (we later heard those to Cesare e Cleopatra, Adriano in Siria and Catone in Utica) was how Graun seemed to develop the overture, pushing the structure into new areas.We then heard two arias from Rodelinda. 'Quest' o Dio lugubre aspetto' (about death oppressing but he bears the imprint of his love in his heart) began with vivid excitement with Sabadus' high, light voice providing plenty of accentuation. He had a fine way with the passage-work, but a tendency to over emphasis. For the middle section, agitation gave […]
2022-07-25 04:00:00
The Paisiello Album: Arias for Castrato (Filippo Mineccia, Massimo Mazzeo, Il Divino Sospiro)
Giovanni Paisiello (1746-1816) Arias for Castrato from: Antigono (Napoli 1785) Catone in Utica (Napoli 1789) Artaserse (Napoli 1783) Alessandro (Modena 1774)La Pace (Napoli ca. 1799) I Gran Cid (Firenze 1775) Demetrio (Modena 1771) Artenice (Napoli 1784) Il ritorno di Perseo (Napoli 1785) Demetrio (Modena 1771) & Oreste (Napoli 1783)Filippo Mineccia, CountertenorMassimo Mazzeo, Il Divino Sospiro (Period Instruments)Pan Classics PC 10394 (2018)[Flac & Scans]
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