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British opera singer (1938-1990)
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2024-02-24 09:51:00
The Lady of Satis House: composer Jacques Cohen talks about finally bringing his 2012 Charles Dickens-inspired monodrama to disc
Jacques Cohen: The Lady of Satis House - Marie Vassiliou at Tete-a-Tete: The Opera Festival in 2012 (Photo: Claire Shovelton)Jacques Cohen's operatic monodrama The Lady of Satis House premiered in 2012. A commission from Bill Bankes-Jones' Tete-a-Tete: The Opera Festival, it was directed by Joe Austin, designed by Emily Harwood and performed by soprano Marie Vassiliou and the Piatti Quartet. 2012 was also the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth and faced with writing the opera in six weeks, Jacques chose Miss Havisham from Great Expectations as the subject, drawing his text from Dickens' book.Jacques Cohen (Photo: Lester Barnes)Now, some 12 years after those first performances, the work has appeared on disc, on the Meridian label, again performed by Marie Vassiliou with the Tippett Quartet. The disc also features two of Jacques' works for string quartet, When the Bough Breaks: Three Lullabies for String Quartet and From Behind Glass: Tone Poem for […]
2021-11-04 05:21:00
Recent Releases, No. 21 (CD Reviews)
[…] listening experience, this new BIS release would clearly be the way to go, and even for those with two-channel systems, this is a highly recommendable release of some truly remarkable music that belongs in every classical music lover’s collection.Peter Gregson: Patina. Includes Hidden; Patina; Sense; Cluster; Schema; Sequence (Seven); Over; Don’t Wake; Continuum. Peter Gregson, solo cello, piano; Warren Zielinski, Magnus Johnston, Matthew Denton, Richard Blayden, violins; James Boyd, Eoin Schmidt-Martin, Meghan Cassidy, Stephanie Edmundson, Richard Harwood, violas; Reinoud Ford, Ben Chappell, Tim Lowe, cellos; Laurence Ungless, double bass; Anthony Weeden, conductor. Deutsche Grammophon 0029 486 0567.Although I was familiar with compositions by composer and cellist Peter Gregson (b. 1987) from CDs by other musicians, Patina is the first recording I have encountered led by Gregson himself. As you can see from the header, the music is scored for traditional classical instruments, with no synthesizers being employed. That being said, the music […]
2021-11-04 05:21:00
Recent Releases, No. 21 (CD Reviews)
[…] listening experience, this new BIS release would clearly be the way to go, and even for those with two-channel systems, this is a highly recommendable release of some truly remarkable music that belongs in every classical music lover’s collection.Peter Gregson: Patina. Includes Hidden; Patina; Sense; Cluster; Schema; Sequence (Seven); Over; Don’t Wake; Continuum. Peter Gregson, solo cello, piano; Warren Zielinski, Magnus Johnston, Matthew Denton, Richard Blayden, violins; James Boyd, Eoin Schmidt-Martin, Meghan Cassidy, Stephanie Edmundson, Richard Harwood, violas; Reinoud Ford, Ben Chappell, Tim Lowe, cellos; Laurence Ungless, double bass; Anthony Weeden, conductor. Deutsche Grammophon 0029 486 0567.Although I was familiar with compositions by composer and cellist Peter Gregson (b. 1987) from CDs by other musicians, Patina is the first recording I have encountered led by Gregson himself. As you can see from the header, the music is scored for traditional classical instruments, with no synthesizers being employed. That being said, the music […]
2021-08-19 07:48:22
Baroque and Contemporary, plus a focus on Brian Elias: this year's Music@Malling
Resident ensemble Chamber Domaine performing at a previous Music@Malling The music of Brian Elias threads its way through this year's Music@Malling. The fifteen concerts in this year's festival in the Kent town, which runs from 24 September to 3 October 2021, will feature the premiere of Elias' Capriccio for Bassoon and Strings performed by resident ensemble Chamber Domaine, conducted by the festival's artistic director Thomas Kemp, with soloist Adam Mackenzie (principal bassoon at Opera North), whilst pianist Daniel Grimwood plays Elias' Five Pieces in a programme which also includes Beethoven alongside Mark-Anthony Turnage's On Marylebone Road, and members of Chamber Domaine also present a programme of Elias' chamber music alongside Ravel's Piano Trio. Oboist Nicholas Daniel joins the Sacconi Quartet for Elias' Oboe Quartet, and Elias will also be talking about his life and music at a Meet the Composer event. Two of the festival's concerts intriguingly interweave Baroque and contemporary. Cellist Richard Harwood and harpsichordist Steven […]
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