Edward Elgar News
English composer (1857-1934)
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Commemorations 2024 (Death: Edward Elgar)
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2024-03-23 09:49:00
Writing Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys
[…] chat to Master of Music, Simon Johnson about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral - interviewSzymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams - concert reviewDanza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful élan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun - record reviewIan Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar - concert reviewHome
2024-03-19 09:58:00
[…] chat to Master of Music, Simon Johnson about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral - interviewSzymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams - concert reviewDanza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful élan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun - record reviewIan Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar - concert reviewSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: London Handel Players at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewHome
2024-03-18 07:35:00
Quite an achievement: the North London Chorus' ambition rewarded in a performance of Ethel Smyth's The Prison that intrigued and engaged
[…] Beethoven pieces, like Wellington's Victory, that rather get a veil drawn over them when discussing Beethoven's musical career. In two movements, without any sort of orchestral prelude, things began with a nice hushed evocation of the calm sea, the music more interestingly complex than one might have anticipated, and then a prosperous voyage that was full of vigour and energy, the choir displaying both attentiveness and enthusiasm. Ethel Smyth was just a year younger than Elgar, like him she did not attend any formal music institution in England, and like him, she wished to study in Leipzig. But Elgar's father (a provincial piano tuner) could not afford to send his son; Smyth's father, a General whose opposition Smyth managed to face down, could and, surprisingly, did send his daughter to Leipzig. There she soon dropped out of official lessons and studied privately. Like Elgar, Smyth's music exists at a slight […]
2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] chat to Master of Music, Simon Johnson about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral - interviewSzymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams - concert reviewDanza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful élan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun - record reviewIan Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar - concert reviewSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: London Handel Players at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewMusical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress - opera reviewShamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change - interviewHome
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