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2022-07-15 13:25:51
In the inexhaustible search for women in history, Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) has emerged from the mists of Novara as the most prolific composer of the 17th century. Overshadowed by the likes of Allegri, Albinoni and Corelli, Leonarda was a Ursuline nun who dedicated each of her works to the Virgin Mary – as well as [...]
2022-05-04 10:24:24
Classical music at this year's Bath Festival
[…] Bullier, evoking memories of classic operas. Soprano Claire Booth will be revisiting her extraordinary solo tour-de-force with Poulenc's La voix humaine performed in an intimate, secret location. Saxophonist Jess Gillam and her ensemble will be performing an eclectic programme of music by CPE Bach, John Harle, James Blake, JS Bach, Piazzolla and Will Gregory. The Tallis Scholars are exploring music by composers who worked at the Sistine Chapel from Josquin to Palestrina and of course Allegri! The Consone Quartet are joined by viola player John Crockatt for a programme that culminates in one of Mozart's wondrous string quintets.Away from classical, there is the jazz group Empirical, Bristol-based collective Snazzback and London-based Lydian Collective, and Public Service Broadcasting. Full details from the festival website.
2022-03-30 07:39:37
Arvo Pärt's Passio at St Martin's Easter Festival
[…] Jeffrey Skidmore directing Ex Cathedra in music by Bach, Purcell, Lotti, Scarlattin and Monteverdi, whilst saxophonist Christian Forshaw joins forces with Tenebrae for an exploration of old and new entitled Drop, slow tears: A Meditation for Choir and Sax [see my interview with Christian]. Good Friday features a performance of Bach's St John Passion when Andrew Earis directs St Martin's Voices with the London Mozart Players and the choir returns on Easter Saturday with a concert which pairs Allegri's Miserere with James MacMillan's recent setting of the same text, originally written for The Sixteen. The festival ends with a visit from the London Handel Festival, when Laurence Cummings directs the London Handel Orchestra and Nardus Williams, Rachel Redmond (sopranos), Ed Lyon (tenor), and Callum Thorpe (bass) in Handel's early Italian oratorio, La Resurrezione. Full details from St Martin-in-the-Fields website.
2022-02-23 23:02:00
[…] come down to us are parodies of a sort (many by Parisotti), but none the weaker for that as they take advantage of sonorities natural to the piano. As with the works I've mentioned by Kreisler and Stravinsky, music from the past is viewed through the prism of intervening centuries, and that kind of mixing can be really rich and satisfying because there are so many layers. Recently, I watched a video called "How Allegri's Miserere should really sound." You can watch the whole thing for yourself, but the basics are as follows: 1) Allegri's original work from the early 1600's is already meant as an homage to an older style, so it began life as a parody. 2) Various performance traditions evolved over centuries as the work acquired legendary status connected to its use in the Sistine Chapel and Mozart's supposed copying down of the work from memory. […]
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