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2023-10-31 07:21:00
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World - violinist Fenella Humphreys introduces her programme of important but neglected figures of 20th century music
Leah Broad & Fenella Humphreys (Photo: Alejandro Tamagno)On Sunday 5 November 2023, violinist Fenella Humphreys joins forces with author Leah Broad and pianist Nicola Eimer at Milton Court Concert Hall to explore some of the most important but neglected figures of 20th century music. Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World features music by Doreen Carwithen, one of Britain’s first women film composers, Rebecca Clarke, acclaimed for her musical experimentation, Dorothy Howell, a prodigy who shot to fame at the Proms, and Ethel Smyth, a highly versatile composer of exceptional quality.Here, Fenella Humphreys explores her introduction to the composers and their music.When I was about eight or nine years old I was given Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne to learn. It was a genuine life-changer - I hadn’t realised until then just how music could make you feel, and it definitely made me want to become a musician.It was only years later that […]
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2021-08-17 06:15:00
Juan Diego Flórez sings arias by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Jules Massenet, Georges Bizet and Giacomo Puccini, with Vincenzo Scalera (HD 1080p)
[…] Pesaro and played Chevalier Danoise in Gluck's opera "Armide" at Milan's La Scala under Riccardo Muti. Since then, Flórez has sung at all of the great opera houses and concert halls worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, The Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and the Zurich Opera House. His albums have won numerous awards, including the Opus Klassik, the Premio Abbiati and the Tamagno Prize. In 2009, Flórez was nominated for Best Classical Vocal Performance in the Grammy Awards for his album "Bel Canto Spectacular". He loves to accompany his songs and canzones on his guitar. The Dmitri Hvorostovsky Festival takes place in Krasnoyarsk in honor of Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962-2017), one of the greatest Russian baritones and a son of this city in Siberia. In October 2019, it became an international hub as musicians from all over […]
2020-04-27 06:30:50
On this day in 1895 Lillian Nordica sang Leonora to Francesco Tamagno‘s Manrico in the tenor’s Met farewell.
2019-11-29 12:06:47
Gaudete!
London Concord Singers & Jessica Norton in rehearsal (Photo © Alejandro Tamagno) Britten's youthful brilliance in A Boy Was Born, Arvo Pärt's stripped back intensity in Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen and Palestrina's luscious double-choir Missa Hodie Christus Natus Est. I will be singing with London Concord Singers, conductor Jessica Norton at the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, Mayfair on Thursday 5 December 2019Full details from EventBrite.
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