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2024-04-20 08:34:00
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
[…] James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook began their recital with three of Roger Quilter's settings of Shakespeare. Gilchrist remains a fine champion of Quilter's songs, clearly enjoying the heart on sleeve nature of the composer's talent. Blow, blow thou winter wind was a big romantic piece, given with remarkable control and subtlety of colour. Fear no more the heat o' the sun was very interior and the group ended with a carefree yet pointed account of Under the Greenwood Tree.Anna Tilbrook, James Gilchrist - Leeds Lieder Festival 2024 at The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire (Photo from Livestream)Next came Fauré songs. The recital's theme, The Earth has Music, was loosely the natural world and the Fauré songs chimed with this. Green was by turns urgent and silkily seductive, words tumbling over each other at times, and Gilchrist really caressed the words in an intimate account of Les roses d'Isphahan full of colours. Automne featured a melancholy vocal line unfolding over restless […]
2024-03-11 14:53:03
Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner delivered shape-shifting music at the Hammersmith Apollo
2024-03-04 07:33:00
Musical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
[…] (artistic director of Longborough Festival) and designer April Dalton deliberately approach the work from a different direction, which seems to have arisen from a close reading of Auden and Kallman's text. The opening scene was a May Day celebration, albeit one so over-designed that it might have been from schlock horror film, and with the Punch and Judy theatre, there seemed deliberate, if puzzling, references to Birtwistle's 1960s operas Punch and Judy and Down by the Greenwood side. Masks and animal heads were a feature here, and in later scenes in London when the ensemble were depicted as rats (again, from a close reading of the libretto). Dalton's set was a multi-level, stage within a stage and the whole production played with an element of theatre that was rather unresolved. Overall, Dalton's designs for set and costumes seemed to reflect Graham's somewhat scattershot approach, and visually the stage was often confused. This […]
2024-02-29 07:43:00
One of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich comes round in the merry month of May.
[…] from University of the Arts London, drawing one’s attention to our fragile planet. In the City of Literature Weekend (in association with the National Centre for Writing) questions of communication and representation will be explored over a host of interesting events by such luminous writers as Carys Davies, Jon McGregor, Val McDermid and Marchelle Farrell. Other festival highlights include the world première of a new eight-hour epic organ composition, 268 years of reverb, composed by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood while, in stark contrast, one can view Antony Gormley’s spectacular large-scale installation Time Horizon at Houghton Hall as well as a series of sculptures by the Kenyan-born British studio potter, Dame Magdalene Odundo. Youth at the helm. The launch of The Book of Thetford, created by children from Thetford schools, in collaboration with artists Andy Field and Beckie Darlington, showcases one of several projects involving the festival working in tandem with Norfolk community groups. You want […]
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