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2024-04-22 09:09:00
The Celestial Stranger: new song cycle inspired by Thomas Traherne's recently discovered manuscript
Joana Carneiro & Gavan RingThomas Traherne was a Herefordshire clergyman who died in 1674 aged 38. Known now as a poet to equal his great contemporary religious writers John Donne, George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, his works had been substantially lost and are only recently being rediscovered. His Centuries of Meditation was only rediscovered in 1898, other volumes turned up but the biggest cache of his work was found only as recently as 1997 at Lambeth Palace Library where they were catalogued as anonymous. Amongst these works is a 42-chapter treatise entitled The Kingdom of God which includes The Celestial Stranger, where Traherne imagines a visitor from a distant universe visiting earth and being held in wonder by its riches and beauty.Musically, Traherne is perhaps best known as the poet for Gerald Finzi's Dies Natalis which draws on three Traherne poems plus text from Centuries of Meditation.Traherne's The Celestial Stranger is now the inspiration for a song-cycle by […]
2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] 2-16 Movements for Piano and Orchestra * [9:30]2.15 - 2.17 Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra * [16:35]Peter Donohoe- piano; Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Atherton*Somm CD266-2 [recorded July 1995* & January 1999*, September 2016 and June 2017; issued 2018][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK and Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong*Recording engineers: Paul Arden Taylor and Mike Hatch*; Producers: Sive Oke and Stephen Johns*Gerald Finzi:01 - 03 Cello Concerto in A minor, op.40 * [37'08]04 Eclogue for piano and strings, op.10 [10'51]05 Grand Fantasia and Toccata for piano and orchestra, op.38 [13'44]Tim Hugh- cello*; Peter Donohoe- piano, Northern Sinfonia conducted by Howard GriffithsNaxos 8.555766 [recorded January 2001; issued 2001][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Jubilee Theatre, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UKRecording engineer and Producer: Tim HandleyWilliam Alwyn:01 - 04 Piano Concerto No.1 (1930) * [14'38]05 Derby Day Overture […]
2024-02-26 14:02:00
A Vast Obscurity: SongEasel bringings song celebrations to South East London including Gabriel Fauré's centenary
[…] Jocelyn Freeman chart the course of Lord Byron's poem Don Juan in music including the first performance of a new commission from Emily Hazrati setting texts by Dr Joseph Spence (Master of Dulwich College and librettist of Dani Howard's opera, The Yellow Wallpaper).Soprano Francesca Chiejina joins Jocelyn Freeman at St Laurence's Church, Catford on 16 June for a concert celebrating Shakespeare with music by from the Baroque to the present day including Arne, McDowall, Samuel, Ruiz, and Finzi's Let us garlands bring. Finally, Mark Padmore and Jocelyn Freeman close the festival with The Wanderer and the Scholar on 21 June at St Stephen's Church, Dulwich by returning to two figures associated with Lord Byron, his Dulwich classmates, the celebrated pedestrian Captain Robert Barclay and Major-General John Gaspard Le Marchant, with music by Beethoven, Schubert, C. Schumann, Vaughan Williams, and Macmillan. Audiences can revel in the summer solstice with a day trip to Dulwich, enjoying a […]
All the conducting master class
2024-02-17 22:12:29
11 Jul – 29 Aug, 2024 Jul 11 – Aug 29, 2024OPERA WORKSHOP for Conductors,Singers,Repetiteurs,Stage Directors G. Rossini LA CENERENTOLA* 7/11-8/3G.Verdi IL TROVATORE** 8/6-8/29 PROFESSORS:Giuseppe Finzi* Vittorio PARISI** ConductingGabriella RAVAZZI* Voice, StagingG.M.BONAJUTO** StagingL.NICASSIO* K.YAMAGISHI** RepetiteursG.M.BOSIO* G.ANDREOLI** ChorusOffers young artists the opportunity to prepare and stage programmed works, guided by experienced and well-known teachers. The course […]
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