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2022-05-12 07:24:38
Saffron Hall's new season: from resident orchestras & distinguished visitors to Saffon Opera Group, plus Saffron Sessions, Saffron Foyer, and Saffron Sounds
[…] performances including American pianist and composer Chad Lawson, Manchester Collective and Pekka Kuusisto. Also the informal Saffron Foyer nights return with jazz and folk artists including Katriona Taylor, Django’s Tiger and the Dan Forshaw Quartet. However, performers don't just include distinguished visitors, there is plenty of local talent too. The season opens with Saffron Opera Group in Wagner’s Tannhäuser with tenor Peter Auty in the title role and Samantha Crawford as Elisabeth, conducted by Michael Thorne. Saffron Walden Choral Society perform Haydn’s Creation with Chameleon Arts Orchestra, whilst the Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra returns with violinist Alex Redington for a programme including Korngold’s Violin Concerto and Shostakovich’s Symphony No.12 commemorating the 1917 revolution. The hall is launching the second iteration of its education initiative Saffron Sounds. This is a an online resource hub, including filmed performances and demonstrations from the Jess Gillam ensemble, which will be available to all primary […]
2022-04-30 05:07:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 30, 2022
[…] in lieu of J. S. Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” Book 1, BWV 846–869.Babayan’s Bach Week recital has been retitled “Babayan Plays Bach, Rachmaninoff, and More.”On May 12, Babayan will solo in J. S. Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052, rather than Bach’s Concerto No. 6 in F Major, BWV 1057. Otherwise, the concert program, “Bach and Quantz: Concertos for Flute, Violin, and Keyboard,” remains unchanged, with flutists Jennifer Gunn and John Thorne featured in Quantz’s Concerto for 2 Flutes in G Minor, QV 6:8, and violinist Desirée Ruhstrat as soloist in Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042.Both Bach Week concerts are at 7:30 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL.For more information about the Bach Week Festival, visit https://bachweek.org/--Nathan J. Silverman Co. PRMinnesota Orchestra Announces 2022-23 Season ProgrammingThe Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for 2022-23, a wide-ranging season that […]
2021-08-31 08:23:06
Britten Pears Arts: Festival of New
Photograph used with kind permission of Thorne Old Photos Britten Pears Arts' Festival of New went on-line earlier this year, but the festival returns to live events at Snape Maltings over two days in September, 10/9/2021 and 11/9/2021, with seven performances and two installations developed during residencies at Snape Maltings which are designed to give artists creative freedom. Singer/songwriter/producer THABO telling stories through song within an immersive environment which offers sights and scents as well as sounds KOGG - an experimental electronic collaboration between Selena Kay and Cerys Hogg, a fusion of their diverse musical backgrounds and collective interests Call Me Unique - singer/songwriter & guitarist who fuses the sounds of jazz, soul, futurebeats, and scat-singing with influences from Lauryn Hill, Ed Sheeran, Ella Fitzgerald & Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes Thea - an opera by composer Amanda Johnson and librettist Jo Clement about a single strong female character, […]
2021-03-05 00:00:00
Peter Sculthorpe: Sun Music & Piano Concerto - John Hopkins, Anthony Fogg & Myer Fredman
[…] again is a programme dominated by Sculthorpe's major early compositions - the four Sun Music. These recordings of Sun Music and Small Town were originally issued on LP by EMI and unfortunately the transfer from deteriorating vinyl to digital leaves a lot to be desired. If the original masters were lost, it seems a pity that ABC didn't call on the services of a professional audio restoration engineer - such as Lani Spahr or Mark Obert-Thorne, who would undoubtedly have been able to do a better job. Although the British-born, immigrant to New Zealand and Australia, John Hopkins, was a fine conductor, the Melbourne Symphony in 1976 was not the orchestra that it has become today. This recording of Sun Music was made before the didjeridu was added to the scoring. For a little more information about Sun Music, see my earlier post of David Porcelijn's much more recent recording […]
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