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All the conducting master class
2023-01-24 19:51:00
24 Jun – 01 Jul, 2023 BERGEN NATIONAL OPERA WELCOMES YOUNG SINGERS, ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS, CONDUCTORS AND REPETITEURS TO APPLY FOR OUR SUMMER ACADEMY OPERA BY THE Fjord 2023. Are you studying to become an opera singer, orchestra musician, conductor or repetiteur? Are you looking for practical experience on stage, input and inspiration from professionals from […]
2021-03-23 07:25:24
[…] music education, audience development, artist management and creative arts project management. The result will be a greater awareness of the whole creation and production process among aspiring cultural managers and arts professionals of the future, realised through a range of exciting events to be held at the end of the programme, curated by the participants themselves to demonstrate their newly acquired skills and insights. The programme has been developed by the Szczecin Philharmonic along with Fjord Cadenza, Norway and the TRAFO Centre for Contemporary Art, Szczecin. They will be working alongside the Music.Design.Form Festival, Szczecin; the International Lutoslawski Youth Orchestra; the Fjord Cadenza Festival and three in-house Gallery exhibitions to offer participants the best all-round creative experience possible. Registration is now open: applications will be considered from 1st April to 5th May 2021. Full details from the programme website.
2020-02-14 09:50:07
A vividly engaged account of Schubert's Death and the Maiden from the conductorless string orchestra, 12 Ensemble
John Tavener, Franz Schubert, Oliver Leith, Sigur Rós; 12 Ensemble; Sancho Panza Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 14 February 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A vibrantly engaging account of Schubert's late quartet in a version for string orchestra by the vividly engaged 12 EnsembleA string orchestra version of Schubert's Death and the Maiden quartet? Well why not, after all Gustav Mahler did it. This new disc from 12 Ensemble on the Sancho Panza label (distributed by PIAS) places Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden', in the ensemble's own version, at its very centre and surrounds the work by an eclectic mix of material, John Tavener's choral anthem The Lamb, Oliver Leith's Honey Siren and an arrangement of the song Fljótavík by Icelandic band Sigur Rós. We start with Tavener's The Lamb in a remarkably atmospheric version, admittedly rather slow as compared with when […]
2019-09-10 13:54:00
British Tone Poems vol 2 - Bliss, Fogg, Howell, and more
British Tone Poems Volume 2 from Chandos with Rumon Gamba conducting then BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. The first volume (please seee my review HERE) focussed on some major discoveries, like Ivor Gurney's A Gloucestershire Rhapsody. There are treasures to be found in this set, too, such as Eric Fogg's Merok, Arthur Bliss' Mêlée fantastique, Patrick Hadley's Kinder Scout and Dorothy Howell's Lamia. Eric Fogg (1903-1939) was a youthful prodigy, so well regarded that the British Music Society presented 25 of his works in concert when he was just seventeen. Merok (1929, published 1934) proved so popular that it was heard at the Proms several times during his lifetime. Fogg died young, in circumstances still unclear. Merok is a town at the head of the Gieranger Fjord in Norway. Rustling strings introduce a simple, melody, defined by oboe. This melody is taken up by flute, then violin, then cor anglais, and oboe once again, […]
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