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2023-10-02 07:30:00
RVW, Elena Kats-Chernin & John McCabe's Notturni ed Alba with Donna Lennard from Kensington Symphony Orchestra & Russell Keable
The Kensington Symphony Orchestra & Russell Keable at Cadogan HallKensington Symphony Orchestra returns to St John's Smith Square on Monday 16 October 2023 to open their 2023/24 season with a concert marking music director Russell Keable's 40 years with the orchestra. The main work in the programme is RVW's A London Symphony, but the orchestra is pairing that with a couple of terrific more recent works by Elena Kats-Chernin and John McCabe. Soviet-born Australian composer, Elena Kats-Chernin describes Big Rhap as musical sketch of her memories of hearing her mother play Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 when the family lived in Russia. The work was commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2017. John McCabe's song-cycle Notturni ed Alba dates from 1970 and features settings of four Medieval Latin poems dealing with various aspects of night. Premiered at the 1970 Three Choirs Festival by soprano Sheila Armstrong, to whom it is dedicated, and the City of Birmingham […]
2022-08-01 07:03:27
Elena Kats-Chernin: Roses in a Box Context Born in 1957, Elena Kats-Chernin is one of Australia’s leading composers. She was born in Uzbekistan and immigrated to Australia in the 1970s, where she graduated from the New South Wales Conservatory of Music in 1980. She was awarded the DAAD German exchange […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2022-04-22 13:12:00
Orpheus/L'Orfeo, Komische Oper, 16 April 2022
(sung as Orpheus in German translation by Susanne Felicitas Wolf) Orfeo – Dominik Köninger Euridice – Josefine Mindus Amor – Peter Renz Sylvia/Proserpina – Maria Fiselier Plutone, Caronte – Tijl Faveyts Figures of Orpheus and Eurydice – Alexander Soehnle, Helen Schumann Dancers - Meri Ahmaniemi, Martina Borroni, Ana Dordevic, Zoltan Fekete, Michael Fernandez, Paul Gerritsen, Claudio Greco, Marcel Prét, Tara Rendell, Lorenzo SoragniBarrie Kosky (director)Katrin Lea Tag (designs)Katharina Tasch (costumes)Ulrich Lenz (dramaturgy)Otto Pichler (choreography)Alexander Koppelmann (lighting) Chorus (chorus master: David Caevlius) and Orchestra of the Komische OperMatthew Toogood (conductor)Amor (Peter Renz), Orpheus (Dominik Köninger)Images: Iko Freese / drama-berlin.deBarrie Kosky’s advent as Intendant of the Komische Oper in 2012 was marked by a twelve-hour ‘Monteverdi Trilogy’, in which the three extant Monteverdi operas were given in new productions and in newly composed realisations by Elena Kats-Chernin (also new German translations by Susanne Felicitas Wolf). Avid Monteverdian, especially in non-‘period’ guise, though I […]
2022-01-20 08:19:21
Honouring three revolutionary icons: Ensemble Offspring's Elegy celebrates the music of Louis Andriessen, Frederic Rzewski and Ian Shanahan
Ensemble Offspring's Elegy - Benjamin Kop, Christopher Pidcock Last year, I reviewed a terrific disc from the long-established Sydney-based contemporary music group, Ensemble Offspring featuring three commissions by Australian composers [see my review]. There is currently an opportunity to enjoy the group's work online as part of its digital initiative, Offspring for All. Their forthcoming online event, Elegy, debuts on 4 February on YouTube (at 8pm AEDT, which works out to be 9am, 5 February in the UK) and then available on demand on the ensemble's website. The concert honours three iconic composers who all died in 2021, Louis Andriessen (1939-2021), Frederic Rzweski (1938-2021) and Ian Shanahan (1962-2021). Each composer was, in his way, revolutionary and the concert showcases music written in the 1970s and 1980s (with one exception). They open Andriessen’s reflective and romantic Elegy (1975) for cello (Christopher Pidcock) and piano (Benjamin Kop), followed by the 2017 piano solo Rimsky […]
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