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2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
[…] imprinted on my mind Beyond the Noh source dramatic material, Britten incorporated elements of Noh treatment of theatrical time into this composition. In fact, Curlew River marked a departure in style for the remainder of the composer’s creative life paving the way for such works as Owen Wingrave and Death in Venice as well as the Third String Quartet. Another interesting music-art collaboration fuses renowned British artist Rachel Jones and soprano and acclaimed Messiaen interpreter, Gweneth Ann Rand, who’ll perform all three of the composer’s great song-cycles beginning with Harawi: Chant d’amour et de mort complemented by Jones’ animated painting projections which will form a dazzling backdrop to the performances. However, if the ‘Wooden O’ in Shakespeare’s Henry V couldn’t hold the vast fields of France neither can I hold the vast array of programme matter in this compact feature that makes the Aldeburgh Festival one of great importance to locals and visitors […]
2023-12-19 09:07:00
75th Aldeburgh Festival: Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, Britten's Curlew River, Sumidagawa & more
[…] commissions) from composers including Lara Agar, Tom Coult, Graham Fitkin, Robin Haigh, Joanna Ward, Judith Weir and Ryan Wigglesworth, plus three UK premieres of music by Unsuk Chin and Thomas Larcher. Made in Snape is a stRand of new music created on residencies at Snape Maltings by a wide range of contemporary musicians including Xhosa Cole, Mark Sanders and Jason Singh; Emily Levy and Mella Faye; Holy Other; Tom Rogerson, Liam Byrne and Clare O’Connell.Soprano Gweneth Ann Rand will performing the three major Messiaen song cycles over three concerts with pianists Simon Lepper and Alison Devenis. The festival's other featured musicians are composer Unsuk Chin, violinist Daniel Pioro and cellist Alban Gerhardt. Alban Gerhardt recreates, with pianist Steven Osborne, the recital given by Rostropovich and Britten in 1961 which included the first performance of Britten’s Cello Sonata and Gerhardt also performs both Elgar and Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concertos, the latter written for him. The first ever […]
2023-11-09 08:17:00
Remembering Keel Watson
Puccini, arr: Burke: Toscatastrophe! - Gwenneth-Ann Rand, Keel Watson - Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2018With the sad news of the passing of bass-baritone Keel Watson, I thought I would look over some of the remarkable and diverse roles that we have seen him in over the years, in everything from Gilbert & Sullivan to Wagner, he had a remarkable, Derek Hammond Stroud-like ability to inhabit a role whether it be comic or serious.One of my favourites moments was his wonderfully louche Scarpia in Tête à Tête's Toscatastrophe! in 2018, a comic reworking of Puccini's Tosca with Gwenneth-Ann Rand and Ronald Samm [see my review] and the last role we saw him in was also in the comic vein, a wonderfully pointed (and political) Private Willis in Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe at English National Opera last month [see my review], whilst in 2018 he managed to dominate proceedings as the Usher in Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial […]
2023-11-07 09:00:00
Walküres take flight at St John’s this November
[…] The London Opera Company orchestra brings together a carefully chosen core of professionals alongside talented semi-professional musicians from London’s leading music colleges. And this performance will also deploy the Royal Opera House’s famous Wagner horns to achieve that authentic and stirring Wagnerian sound.An equally impressive cast includes much-celebrated singer Sarah Pring, who starred as mentor and coach in Sky Art’s Anyone Can Sing, and fresh from performing with ENO at the BBC Proms, Gweneth Ann Rand, who returns as Sieglinde following last year’s rave reviews. They join experienced Wagnerian singers, some debuting roles for the first time including gifted tenor Ben Thapa as Siegmond. The London Opera Company is a not for profit organisation dedicated to bringing audiences world-class performances at an affordable ticket price. They performed Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Peter Selwyn, at St. John's Smith Square in October 2022 having given Die Walküre in a chamber […]
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