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2023-12-04 10:41:00
Total immersion: the Glasshouse's Big Bruckner Weekend features his final three symphonies, a mass, motets & more
Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia (Photo: Mark Savage)Next year is the 200th anniversary of Bruckner's birth, so expect plenty of celebrations of the composer's music, though the sheer scale of his symphonies makes anything like completeness difficult. The Glasshouse in Gateshead is having a Big Bruckner Weekend from 1 to 3 March 2024 offering audiences the opportunity to immerse themselves in final three symphonies, his motets, one of his masses and even his String Quintet.Across the weekend, Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Bruckner’s Symphony No.7, Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé perform Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 and Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's unfinished Symphony No. 9. Thomas Zehetmair conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia & chorus in Bruckner's Mass No. 3 with soloists Elizabeth Watts, Hannah Hipp, Thomas Atkins and Mark Stone, whilst throughout the weekend the chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia will be performing Bruckner's motets, […]
2023-11-30 07:33:00
A distinctive voice & a richly rewarding sound-world: songs by Franco Alfano from Anna Pirozzi & Emma Abbate
[…] Abbate with cellist Bozidar Vukotic on Resonus Classics takes a different look at Alfano, featuring a programme of his songs, from his Cinq mélodies, written when he was a 21-year-old student at the Leipzig Conservatoire right through to Due liriche per canto, violoncello e pianoforte from 1949. Emma Abbate seems to be making something of a project of reviving unjustly neglected 20th century Italian song and previous on Resonus she has released discs of Ildebrando Pizzetti's songs with Hanna Hipp [see my review] and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's settings of Shakespeare's sonnets with Ashley Riches [see my review]. This disc reveals another, rather striking Italian 20th-century voice.Alfano's posthumous reputation suffered because of his willingness to be associated with the Fascist regime, but the same is true of other composers such as Mascagni. Alfano was a prolific composer, his output covers far more than just opera, including two symphonies, three string quartets, significant chamber music as well […]
2022-03-20 10:18:42
Anglais - First Revival of Phelim McDermott’s Così fan tutte at the London Coliseum
[…] stare at the characters in scenes when they are at their most vulnerable is about as dark as this production gets. The opera can have extremely cruel undertones, and, though it can be presented in many ways, one cannot help feeling the chosen approach should have played these up more because behind all the glitz and glamour, circuses can surely be sad and dangerous places themselves. ENO 22 Così fan tutte, Benson Wilson, Hanna Hipp © Lloyd Winters There is still a lot that is entertaining about the production as Tom Pye’s sets see the lovers ride on teacups and swans, and Fiordiligi undergo three rotations of a ferris wheel as she sings ‘Per pietà, ben mio perdona’. The sisters occupy adjacent chalets in a Coney Island motel that do prove successful in introducing an ‘in one door, out the other’ element as Don Alfonso puts a […]
2022-03-15 08:50:57
An Anglo-Indian Orpheus, a first Ariadne and the challenge of The Pearl Fishers - Opera North's 2022/23 programme
[…] Arts UK), with a cast which mixes Western and Indian classical singers. Alongside this will be concert performances of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice with Alice Coote and Fflur Wyn conducted by Anthony Hermus. Another highlight comes in the Spring, when Rodula Gaitanou directs Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, in a co-production with Gothenburg Opera (the production debuted in Gothenburg in 2018 to very positive reviews). Anthony Hermus conducts with Elizabeth Llewellyn singing her first Ariadne, Hanna Hipp as the Composer and Erin Caves as Bacchus. For the Summer, the company is presenting a concert staging of Bizet's The Pearl Fishers conducted by Matthew Kofi Waldren and directed by Matthew Eberhardt. The staging and a series of related events will explore the challenges of presenting this work today with its original setting of an exoticised pre-colonial Sri Lanka. Another intriguing event is a staging of Mozart's Requiem being performed in association with […]
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