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2024-04-20 12:00:26
The week in classical: Roman Fever/ The Human Voice; NYO, National Youth Brass Band; Celebrating Sir Neville Marriner – review
Susie Sainsbury theatre; Royal Festival Hall; St Martin-in-the-Fields, LondonPegasus Opera sparks change with a tart two-hander and a woman on the edge; teenage brass players show their mettle; and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields do their founder proudAs a scenario for a chamber opera, try this: two women of “ripe but well-cared-for middle age” (an enviable condition) reminisce as old friends but soon reveal themselves bitter rivals, each harbouring a shocking secret. Edith Wharton’s featherlight short story Roman Fever (1934) can nearly be lifted straight from the page to make a crisp two-hander libretto. The American composer Philip Hagemann (b.1932) did just that in his 1989 opera, set to lush, singable, musical theatre-style music. Wharton’s words remain intact, the levity of the conversation exposed as bitchiness exemplified.Roman Fever was presented as part of a stylish double bill with Francis Poulenc’s La voix humaine (sung in English as The […]
2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] 2024A day of French song with a focus on Fauré, with Graham Johnson making us love the composer's late period, and James Gilchrist in fine form - concert reviewEngaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar - concert reviewThe sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns - record reviewA City Full of Stories: Anna Phillips on her work with Academy of St Martin in the Fields' SoundWalk - guest postingEnergy, discipline, & sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra & National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins - concert reviewNo boundaries or rules: Yorkshire-based Paradox Orchestra is reinventing the orchestral concert - interviewFull of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides - concert reviewA little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini […]
2024-04-20 08:34:00
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
[…] miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogLeeds Lieder 2024Engaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar - concert reviewThe sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns - record reviewA City Full of Stories: Anna Phillips on her work with Academy of St Martin in the Fields' SoundWalk - guest postingEnergy, discipline, & sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra & National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins - concert reviewNo boundaries or rules: Yorkshire-based Paradox Orchestra is reinventing the orchestral concert - interviewFull of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides - concert reviewA little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini […]
2024-04-18 12:02:14
Wigmore Hall, LondonMurray Perahia’s long relationship with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields saw the conductor and pianist on stage to be part of Schumann’s Piano QuintetThe Academy of St Martin in the Fields is currently marking
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