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One of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich comes round in the merry month of May.
The giant puppet from L’Homme Debout’s Mo and The Red Ribbon which will roam the streets of NorwichOne of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich (running for an astonishing 17 days in the merry month of May from Friday 10th to Sunday 26th) offers a cultural package like no other taking in music, drama, literature, circus, outdoor and family events as well as the all-important visual arts. Artists from round the world and across the region will gather in Norwich and, indeed, across the county to present a huge variety of work and events in a programme featuring a host of ‘stories’ providing guided routes through the festival and bringing together shows and events that share common themes. For instance, Lucy McCormick’s Lucy and Friends, an anarchic cry for help, subverts the normal dynamic between audience and performer. Sitting in the Whisper & Shout section of a wide […]
2023-10-07 09:09:00
Astonishing that no-one has heard or heard of the work: Ella Marchment on directing Camille Erlanger's L'Aube rouge at Wexford
Camille Erlanger's L'Aube rouge in rehearsal at Wexford Festival Opera This year's Wexford Festival Opera opens on 24 October with the theme, Women & War with operas including Donizetti's Zoraida di Granata, La ciociara by contemporary Italian composer Marco Tutino and L'Aube rouge by the French composer Camille Erlanger. La ciociara is conducted by Francesco Cilluffo, Wexford's principal guest conductor and I chatted to him about the opera earlier this year, see my interview. L'Aube rouge will be directed by Ella Marchment and conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire, and I caught up with Ella, in the midst of rehearsals, to talk about Erlanger and his opera.Ella MarchmentCamille Erlanger (1863-1919) studied the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes, won the Prix de Rome in 1888 and wrote nine operas including the five-act music drama Le Fils de l’étoile, written for the Paris Opéra, where it enjoyed success. Erlanger was Jewish and served as choirmaster of the Synagogue […]
2023-10-02 09:01:18
Theatre Royal, BathThe tenor’s gift for narrative transforms each of these songs by Britten and Schubert into a tiny drama, with elegant accompaniment from the pianistWhen Deborah Warner took over as artistic director of the Ustinov Studio at Bath’s Theatre Royal, she announced her intention of programming opera, dance and song alongside theatre. Launching her second season there, tenor Ian Bostridge gave a memorable recital, proving just how appropriate a space it is for such performances. The Ustinov is small and darkly intimate, and Bostridge and his pianist, Julius Drake, used the acoustic to great effect, with a pianissimo that would be impossible in most venues carrying wonderfully here.Recently recovered from a chest infection, Bostridge exercised caution and abandoned the demands of Britten’s Michelangelo Sonnets in favour of a Schubert sequence, while retaining the cycle Winter Words, Op 52, setting eight poems by Thomas Hardy and first performed by Britten […]
2023-07-14 00:00:00
Richard Rodney Bennett, Arthur Bliss, George Butterworth & Gustav Holst: The British Music Collections
George Butterworth: The British Music Collection01 - 06 Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad [15'06]07 - 11 Bredon Hill and Other Songs [14'29]12 A Shropshire Lad [10'21]13 Two English Idylls [9'44]14 The Banks Of Green Willow [6'06]Benjamin Luxon- baritone and David Willison- piano (01-11 [July 1975]); Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Neville Marriner (12-14 [January 1976])Decca 468802-2 [recorded 1975 and 1976; the compilation first issued 2001][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Christ Church, Chelsea (01-11), St. John's, Smith Square (12-14), LondonRecording engineers: John Dunkerley (01-11), Stanley Goodall and Simon Eadon (12-14); Producer: Chris HazellThis was Benjamin Luxon and David Willison's first recording of the Butterworth song cycles - made for Argo in July 1975. They went on to re-record them for Chandos in November 1989; also here on MIMIC.Richard Rodney Bennett:The British Music Collection01 - 04 Piano Concerto No. 1 [24'10]05 - 07 Concerto for Stan […]
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