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Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-02-16 18:28:30
[…] it is, a predominantly white cast delivers For What It’s Worth, inspired by singer Miriam Makeba (“Mama Africa”). It’s glowingly lit in burnt umber, costumed in rich green, blue and orange. November co-created the score with Alex Wilson, and his satisfyingly full-fat movement pulses through an ensemble led by Mayara Magri with lavish, wheeling arms, percussive handclaps and delicately fluting wrists.The only dud for me was the last piece, Jessica Lang’s relentlessly winsome Twinkle. Kate Shipway’s piano, high on a platform, is silhouetted beside a metallic light, a planet in scrunched silver and gold. Set to a Brahms lullaby and Mozart’s variations on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, it’s a skippity piece of sugary smiles and cute stylings (high fives, swimming arms).
2021-09-14 00:00:00
Vaughan Williams: Anniversary Collector Edition & five more Serenades to Music
[…] a run for their money. I don't know where the Mercury Opera draws its singers from but it must be a very talented and professional pool - significantly bettering Matthew Best's group to my ears. Coupled with this is a fine performance of A London Symphony. The Rochester Philharmonic respond splendidly to their retiring British music director, Christopher Seaman, at the end of his 13 year tenure. Rather like Frank Shipway, another very fine British conductor, he has been generally neglected - never a darling of the British musical establishment nor of music critics. He was a protege of Adrian Boult, now nearing 80, and is in his element with British composers.I have already posted the Roger Norrington recording of Serenade to Music on MIMIC and here is another, extracted from a longer programme. From Ralph Vaughan Williams 'Music in the […]
2020-12-18 00:30:00
Holst: Two more recordings of The Planets - George Hurst and Frank Shipway
[…] orchestra, is as fine as most other contenders. Here, Mars is as menacing as you could hope, the big tune in Jupiter isn't milked and Uranus has all the rhythms beautifully pointed. As there is no documentation provided with the download, I have included scans of the original LP sleeve. 01. - 07. The Planets. Suite, op.32 [51'08] Royal Philharmonic Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Frank Shipway From Denon 4192412 [recorded sometime before 2009; released in January 2009] [digital download; flacs, cover scan, no booklet.] Recording venue, engineer and producer unknown. Here is another recording of The Planets which I have never come across before and whose provenance is shrouded in mystery. This was also found hidden in a online download site and the only firm information is that the download became available in 2009. I suspect that the actual […]
2020-06-28 10:17:27
A Life on-Line: Otello in Birmingham, Wagner's villa at Grange Park Opera, and an immersive, genderswapping Midsummer Night's Dream
[…] tenor Andrés Presno sang an aria from Sorazabal's zarzuela, La tabernera del puerto. We ended with two items from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess sung by Malaba and Rangwanasha. Conducting and accompanist honours were shared between Antonio Pappano, Patrick Milne and Edmund Whitehead. For dance we had the moving simplicity of a duet from Kenneth Macmillan's Concerto with Fumi Kaneko and Reece Clarke, to the slow movement of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto with piano soloist Kate Shipway, and a duet from Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour with Mayara Magri and Matthew Ball, dancing to music by Ezio Bosso. And we also heard the second movement of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor, op.49, with Vasko Vassilev (violin), Christopher Vanderspar (cello), Antonio Pappano (piano). Still at the Royal Opera House, but more out and about, musicians from the orchestra recorded Ravel's Bolero, to dance from the dancers in home […]
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