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2018-08-10 09:59:37
Small scale challenge: a studio performance of Donizetti''s Lucia di Lammermoor from Fulham Opera
[…] to smaller fringe companies. But thanks to strong and wonderfully engaged performances from the principals, there was much to enjoy.The production, designed by Anna Yates, placed the action roughly in modern times but keeping the details of the plot so that the communication problems between Lucia and Edgardo were still based on letters (no mobile phones here). The background was left sketchy, but costuming suggested Edgardo as old money (Alberto Sousa first appears in a Barbour and a flat cap), whilst the Ravenswoods were clearly new money and when Nicola Said's Lucia first appears her outfit is pure 'Essex Girl'.Said made an appealing and rather sparky Lucia, at first quite together yet very much a live wire. In her opening solo, she revealed a finely vibrant voice which coped admirably with the tessitura. Technically strong, she was also a neat stylist and throughout the evening there was much to enjoy. […]
2018-06-22 15:06:07
Powerfully uplifting: Bach's Mass in B minor from the Dunedin Consort
John Butt & Dunedin Consort (Photo David Barbour) Bach Mass in B minor; Dunedin Consort, John Butt; Wigmore Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 21 June 2018 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Bach's mass with just ten singers in a vibrant yet moving performance full of dramatic contrastWe don't know why or for whom Bach wrote his Mass in B minor, even the title is a later addition. A very, very late work, it is clear that he lavished a lot of care on it and essentially it is something of a summation of his art as he re-used carefully selected material from his back catalogue. That the piece works so well in its own right says a lot for Bach's sheer genius.Not knowing the possible performance history leaves groups able to apply their own style to the piece, I have even sung it with a chorus of […]
2017-08-16 08:01:15
Charlotte Barbour Condini, an 18-year-old violinist in Chineke! who is about to study at the Royal Academy of Music, says: “Gifted black kids… have to be exposed to classical music and if schools aren't doing it, and they don't hear it at home, that's ...
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