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2023-07-02 10:30:00
Wigmore Hall Poulenc: Les Soirées de Nazelles Fauré, arr. Despax: Après un rêve, op.7 no.1 Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit Saint-Saëns-Liszt, arr. Horowitz: Danse macabre, S 555 Emmanuel Despax (piano) By way of a CD launch, Emmanuel Despax gave a wonderful Saturday lunchtime programme, as deeply committed as it was unfailingly stylish, of French music at the Wigmore Hall. First came Poulenc’s Les Soirées de Nazelles, the composer’s 1930s ‘portraits’ or, as he a little confusingly also called them, ‘variations’, initially improvised for friends assembled by his countryside piano, introduced by a ‘Préambule’ and cadenza. That ‘preamble’, essentially a prelude, opened in Prokofiev-like manner, soon melting slightly to reveal a softer, yet never merely soft, Poulenc centre, all despatched with characteristic élan. Momentum sprang from Despax’s repeated notes – ‘Extrêmement animé et décidé’ – though he always maintained the impression of allowing due time and space; it was never […]
All the conducting master class
2023-07-01 07:02:30
04 – 07 Jan, 2024 Conducting workshop with string orchestra. Seminars will be held for score preparation, working with staff and board, administrative duties, pops concerts, and applying for jobs, including Mock interviews. closing date: 15 Oct 2023 Conductor Carl Topilow, author of The Orchestral Conductor’s Career Handbook, will be hosting a conducting seminar on January […]
2022-10-10 21:27:00
One never knows when and how a musical work might cross one's path.A few years ago, some back and forth with friends about music in quintuple meter led me to a virtual obsession with a little fugue by the little-known Anton Reicha.Last year, encounters with an unusual hymn from the 1970s by another little-known composer turned into a series of experiments in creating virtual performances of a hazy hymn tune.Eleven years ago, I walked into a hall to hear a young chamber orchestra rehearsing and fell in love with four minutes of a string symphony by a 12-year-old Mendelssohn, leading to this extended analysis.More than twenty years ago, a snowstorm cancelled a rehearsal which led me to create some synthesized practice materials which I later converted into thirty minutes of slo-mo Schoenberg.You never know.Now if, out of the blue, you'd told me the Italian/American composer Gian Carlo Menotti had written […]
2022-08-09 08:27:00
Reviews of the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company at Buxton
Emily Vine (Mabel) and chorus in the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company'sproduction of The Pirates Of Penzance at Buxton Opera House 2022The Pirates of PenzanceThe Gilbert & Sullivan Festival is back at Buxton – hurrah! A full week of performances at the Opera House there precedes two weeks of continued festival in Harrogate, so there’s the best of both worlds for G&S lovers. The shows diary is very much the same as it used to be in the days when Buxton had the festival to itself: a different title almost every day, with the festival’s own National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company leading the way (they’re also doing Iolanthe and Utopia Ltd, a relative rarity), plus the pick of the crop of other specialists in the Savoyard repertoire – this week that’s The Gondoliers (Forbear! Theatre), The Mikado (Peak Opera), HMS Pinafore (Opera della Luna), and Charles Court Opera with […]
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