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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] Chunmeng Ge (piano) continued with more Debussy and his contemporary Amy Beach (she was just six year younger). Debussy's Nuit d'etoiles was poised yet subdued, though I liked Merrin's lovely youthful-sounding lyric soprano. She was perhaps a bit young to bring of the world-weariness of Beach's Ah Love, but a day but there were some impressive big passions too. Laura Coppinger (soprano) and David Palmer (piano) gave is a rather more challenging contrast. They began with Oliver Knussen's Walt Whitman setting, The Dalliance of Eagles, challenging indeed with its athletic vocal writing, almost instrumental in style. This was drama, vibrantly done with vivid piano accompaniment, though words were very much at a premium here. In complete contrast, came a sensitive account of Frank Bridge's Come to me in my dreams, touching and concentrated.Deirunas Jasiulionis (tenor) and Fang-Lin Liu (piano) gave us two songs from Robert Schumann's Myrthen. Freisinn was full of swagger […]
2024-04-10 23:01:54
Joan Szymko will lead her own works in Boulder and Cherry Hills Village By Peter Alexander April 10 at 5:15 p.m. Composer Joan Szymko has set to music poems by several of the leading poets of our times, including Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry. A conductor as well as composer, Szymko will lead Boulder’s Ars […]
2024-04-07 13:21:26
Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterThe Hallé’s playing was triumphant as Thomas Adès oversaw a challenging programme including a rare Tippett masterpiece and new work from Oliver Leith, while the conductor’s own piece was an immense statement
2024-04-06 08:42:00
Spell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells
[…] And language can shape our thoughts. Freya Waley-Cohen: Stone Fruit - Colin Currie Quartet, Wigmore HallShe sees her music as often being anchored around melody, but what often comes across is the contrast between the more spacious areas, the in-between of the notes, and the concrete, earthy rhythmic passages. But then, having described her music, she admits that she usually starts to think of pieces that do not fit the description. Her teacher, the late Oliver Knussen, felt that it was best not to get too self-conscious about your music as this can hold you back.Freya comes from an artistic family and her elder sister is the violinist, Tamsin Waley-Cohen. Freya decided she wanted to be involved in music fairly early, and because her big sister was a violinist, she wanted to be one too. She has an early memory of Tamsin playing the violin and young Freya asking for […]
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