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South African-born operatic soprano (1946-2012)
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2023-12-19 09:07:00
75th Aldeburgh Festival: Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, Britten's Curlew River, Sumidagawa & more
[…] Britten Pears Arts commissions) from composers including Lara Agar, Tom Coult, Graham Fitkin, Robin Haigh, Joanna Ward, Judith Weir and Ryan Wigglesworth, plus three UK premieres of music by Unsuk Chin and Thomas Larcher. Made in Snape is a strand of new music created on residencies at Snape Maltings by a wide range of contemporary musicians including Xhosa Cole, Mark Sanders and Jason Singh; Emily Levy and Mella Faye; Holy Other; Tom Rogerson, Liam Byrne and Clare O’Connell.Soprano Gweneth Ann Rand will performing the three major Messiaen song cycles over three concerts with pianists Simon Lepper and Alison Devenis. The festival's other featured musicians are composer Unsuk Chin, violinist Daniel Pioro and cellist Alban Gerhardt. Alban Gerhardt recreates, with pianist Steven Osborne, the recital given by Rostropovich and Britten in 1961 which included the first performance of Britten’s Cello Sonata and Gerhardt also performs both Elgar and Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concertos, the latter written for […]
2023-05-22 17:18:00
Queen Elizabeth HallVivaldi: The Four Seasons, op.8 Grisey: Vortex temporumMichael Morpurgo (narrator)Clio Gould, Oliver Wilson (violins)Oliver Wilson (viola)Clare O’Connell (cello)Jonas Nordberg (archlute)David Gordon (harpsichord)Katherine Tinker (chamber organ)Karen Jones (flutes)Mark van de Wiel (clarinets)Paul Silverthorne (viola)Tim Gill (cello)Daniel Piero (violin, director)Andrew Zolinsky (piano)Geoffrey Paterson (conductor) All music unfolds in time. Here, two musical works, separated by the greater part of three centuries, in turn explored time’s unfolding. It has become such a cliché to moan about the ubiquity of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons that perhaps now it is time, as it were, to welcome it back to the fold. (In any case, apart from telephonic descents into hell punctuated by reminders of the value of our call and eagerness of Corporation X to answer us, we can readily avoid it. I have for years.) It is certainly time to do so if treated to so engaging a performance as this from Daniel […]
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2023-04-12 07:04:34
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