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English composer (1885–1916)
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A Vast Obscurity: SongEasel bringings song celebrations to South East London including Gabriel Fauré's centenary
From April to June 2024, Jocelyn Freeman's SongEasel is celebrating a whole clutch of anniversaries in a series of concerts across South East London featuring performers including Roderick Williams, Mark Padmore and Elin Manahan Thomas. Spreading her net widely, a delighting in discovering that the word 'obscurity' can mean a collective noun for a group of poets, pianist Jocelyn Freeman's series A Vast Obscurity brings together the 460th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death and 65th birthday of Dr. Joseph Spence, plus Gabriel Fauré's centenary.Things commence on 11 April at St. George the Martyr, Borough with baritone Roderick Williams, pianist Iain Burnside and double bass player Leon Bosch in The Land of Lost Content with music by Butterworth, Burleigh, Clarke, Beach, and McLachlan. Gabriel Fauré's centenary is celebrated with a pair of concerts, the 1893 version of the Requiem with Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Malachy Frame (baritone) and The Corbett Consort at St Mark's Church, Kennington on 11 May, then Gwilym […]
2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
Ralph Vaughan Williams:Incidental Music to a satirical production of Aristophanes' comedy, The Wasps1.01 - 1.13 Overture and Act One [44'07]2.01 - 2.15 Act Two and Act Three [61'30]Henry Goodman- narrator, Hallé Choir and Orchestra conducted by Mark ElderHallé CD HLD 7510 [recorded July 2005; issued 2008][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: The Albert Halls, Bolton, UKRecording engineer: Simon Eadon; Producer: Andrew KeenerFlowers of the Field:01 George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad. Rhapsody for Orchestra [10'22]02 - 05 Gerald Finzi (edited & completed C. Alexander): Requiem da Camera ^ [22'29]06 Ivor Gurney (edited & orchestrated P. Lancaster): The Trumpet # [5'45]Ralph Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy * [22'01]Jeremy Irons- speaker*, Roderick Williams- baritone^, City of London Chorus^*#, London Mozart Players conducted by Hilary Davan WettonNaxos 8.573426 [recorded July 2014; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Henry Wood Hall, LondonRecording engineer: Mike Clements; Producer: Andrew WaltonRagtimes & Serenades:01 […]
2023-10-03 08:19:00
Nigel Foster's London Song Festival celebrates centenaries and more: Ned Rorem, Walton's Facade, Rachmaninoff, Walter de la Mare & the Mackintosh raincoat
Nigel Foster's London Song Festival returns to Hinde Street Methodist Church this Autumn with a series of concerts celebrating the countryside, as well as commemorating centenaries of Ned Rorem and Walton & Sitwell's Facade, Rachmaninoff and Walter de la Mare's 150th, the bicentenary of the invention of the Mackintosh raincoatThe series opens on 20 October with Rebecca Leggett (mezzo-soprano) and George Ireland (piano), winners of the 2022 London Song Festival British Art Song Competition, in The South Country – a celebration of Sussex with songs from Butterworth, RVW, Ireland and Bridge.Jonathan Eyers (baritone) and Nigel Foster will be celebrating Ned Rorem in Paris and New York, marking the centenary of the composer's birth. Foster will be joined by Alexandra Dunaeva (soprano) and Iestyn Morris (countertenor) for Escape to the Country, a celebration of Rachmaninoff at his country estate, Ivanovka, combining the composer's songs with extracts from his letters.With Childhood in the […]
2023-09-30 08:32:00
What is essential is that you have to be passionate about the work: Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis, Don Carlo in the Royal Opera's revival of La Forza del Destino on his clutch of Verdi roles
[…] There is Love Blows as the Wind Blows, a disc of 20th-century music with string quartet, and a series of recordings of more unusual 19th-century repertoire. In fact, he loves digging things out. The quartet album, Love Blows as the Wind Blows (on ATMA Classique) came about because the quartet wanted to do Barber's Dover Beach with him (they are from the same place in Canada), and the question was what else to perform. George Butterworth's Love Blows as the Wind Blows remains somewhat unusual and Étienne likens it in style to RVW, then there is Farewell, Earth's Bliss by Geoffrey Bush which are some of Étienne's favourite pieces and a work by Rejean Coallier who is a friend of the string quartet, and he took a work for baritone and piano and worked it for baritone and string quartet. It all came together almost by accident, and then the […]
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