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Energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev, Julius Eastman and more
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Jessica CottisCatalyst: Coleridge-Taylor, Julius Eastman, Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev; National Youth Brass Band and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Tess Jackson, Jessica Cottis; Royal Festival HallReviewed 14 April 2024From Julius Eastman's creative provocation in the Clore Ballroom to the stupendous combined brass band and orchestra in Higgins new piece, an astonishing day of music making full of energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making Under the catch-all title of Catalyst, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain arrived at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 14 April 2024 and filled the building with music. During the afternoon, there was a side-by-side performance with local school children of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade in the Clore Ballroom, as part of the orchestra's outreach programmes. Then before the main concert members of the main concert, members of the orchestra gathered in the Clore Ballroom for […]
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2020-10-16 11:47:13
Brass band star retires pregnant
Black Dyke band has parted company for the time being with flugel player Zoe Lovatt-Cooper, who is expecting her first baby. Zoe, who has been with Black Dyke for ten years, has won just about every flugel competition on earth. She says: ‘I’m excited to share the news of our first child in February. Paul […]
2019-12-07 09:48:27
Creating a counter-factual history of brass chamber music: I chat to Simon Cox & Matthew Knight from the brass-septet Septura
Septura I first became aware of the brass septet, Septura, when noting their 2017/18 concert series Kleptomania at St John's Smith Square, and I went on to review their 2018 disc of Finzi, Elgar, Parry and Walton on Naxos. The group has just released a disc of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi, and in February 2020 the group will be making its Wigmore Hall debut. I recently met up with Simon Cox and Matthew Knight from the Septura to find out more about their plans and to talk about their project to bring brass chamber music into the mainstream.Simon Cox (trumpet) and Matthew Knight (trombone) are the artistic directors of Septura. The two do all of the group's arrangements, and they two feel that the new version of The Nutcracker has come out surprisingly well. Up until now, they have had a rule to not to do […]
2019-08-24 19:54:00
Petrenko, Berliner Philharmoniker, Beethoven 9 live from Brandenburger Tor
Live from the Brandenburger Tor, Kirill Petrenko conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker in Beethoven's Symphony no 9 to an audience of thousands. It's been just over four years since Peternko was appointed Chief Conductor but this is his first official appearance. Massive publicity, which is fair enough - the Berliner Philharmoniker was among the first to pioneer orchestra-led online performance. Now, it's fairly standard practice. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can listen in. The Berlin Phil is effectively everyone's "local" orchestra, bringing world class playing to anyone who wants to listen in. This raises the bar for everyone - audiences, musicians - but I think people respond better to upmarket than to dumbing down. Live broadcasts are also increasingly important because they reset the balance in favour of musicians and music, in an era when the delivery of music, such as streaming, increasingly divorces product from performance. Music is a human […]
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