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2024-02-26 14:02:00
A Vast Obscurity: SongEasel bringings song celebrations to South East London including Gabriel Fauré's centenary
From April to June 2024, Jocelyn Freeman's SongEasel is celebrating a whole clutch of anniversaries in a series of concerts across South East London featuring performers including Roderick Williams, Mark Padmore and Elin Manahan Thomas. Spreading her net widely, a delighting in discovering that the word 'obscurity' can mean a collective noun for a group of poets, pianist Jocelyn Freeman's series A Vast Obscurity brings together the 460th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death and 65th birthday of Dr. Joseph Spence, plus Gabriel Fauré's centenary.Things commence on 11 April at St. George the Martyr, Borough with baritone Roderick Williams, pianist Iain Burnside and double bass player Leon Bosch in The Land of Lost Content with music by Butterworth, Burleigh, Clarke, Beach, and McLachlan. Gabriel Fauré's centenary is celebrated with a pair of concerts, the 1893 version of the Requiem with Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Malachy Frame (baritone) and The Corbett Consort at St Mark's Church, Kennington on 11 May, then Gwilym […]
2023-12-07 07:55:00
Respighi and beyond: Guildhall School continues its exploration of his underrated musical legacy
Roberto González-Monjas conducts the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in a rehearsalDuring lockdown, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama did an innovative on-line performance of Respighi's opera La bella dormente nel bosco and the Guildhall School returned to the opera this term, performing a double bill of Respighi operas, La bella dormente nel bosco and Maria egiziaca; see soprano Holly Brown's article about working on the double bill. And the music of Respighi remains a thread running through the Guildhall School's new term.On Tuesday 27 February 2024 in Milton Court Concert Hall, there is Vocal at Six: Respighi and Friends, an early evening recital directed by Iain Burnside that explores Respighi's songs, from Italian verismo to the world of Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. Then under the baton of Roberto González-Monjas, the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra presents Respighi's three tone-poems about Rome on Wednesday 13 March 2024 in the Barbican Hall. Perhaps his best-known works the three tone poems, The […]
2023-08-31 06:22:00
Exploring Rachmaninoff's songs alongside those of his contemporaries: Iain Burnside and friends at Wigmore Hall
Sergey RachmaninoffRachmaninoff wrote songs from his years at the Moscow Conservatory right through to 1916. There are over 80 songs (románsy in Russian) setting Russian romantic writers and poets. Intimately connected to the literature of the Russia that he left behind in 1917, the song genre was one to which Rachmaninoff never returned during his exile.Running from September 2023 until June next year is a Rachmaninoff Song Series at Wigmore Hall, four concerts curated by pianist Iain Burnside in partnership with Philip Bullock, professor of Russian literature and music at Oxford. The first concert, on 28 September 2023, features soprano Anush Hovhannisyan and bass Jasurbek Khaydarov with Iain Burnside in a programme of songs by Rachmaninoff alongside those of his contemporaries, Nikolay Myaskosvksy (1881-1950), Anatoly Alexandrov (1888-1982), Mikhail Gnesin (1883-1957), Yuliya Veysberg (1880-1942) and Maximilian Steinberg (1883-1946).The idea behind the series is to intertwine Rachmaninoff romances with those of his contemporaries, many now forgotten, ‘cancelled’ after the […]
2022-11-04 00:00:00
Butterworth, Gurney, Vaughan Williams et al: English Song Cycles (Benjamin Luxon, Roderick Williams et al)
[…] Simon Crawford-Phillips- piano, Dante Quartet [Krysia Osostowicz and Giles Francis- violins, Judith Busbridge- viola, Bernard Gregor-Smith- cello]Signum Classics SIGCD112 [recorded February 2007; issued 2008][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, UKRecording engineer: Mike Hatch; Producer: Adrian PeacockA Shropshire LadRalph Vaughan Williams: 01 - 06 On Wenlock Edge * [23'15]Ivor Gurney:07 - 14 The Western Playland ^ [24'57]15 - 21 Ludlow and Teme * [20'46]Adrian Thompson- tenor*, Stephen Varcoe- baritone^, Iain Burnside- piano, Delme Quartet [Galina Solodchin and John Trusler- violins, John Underwood- viola, Jonathan Williams- cello]Hyperion CDH55187 [recorded October 1989; this issue 2004][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Kimpton Parish Church, Hertfordshire, UK;Recording engineer: Antony Howell; Producer: Arthur JohnsonHeracleitusIvor Gurney:01 - 07 Ludlow and Teme *#^ [18'22]George Butterworth: 08 - 11 Bredon Hill and other songs *# [11'09]12 - 16 Suite for String Quartet ^ [18'23]Peter Warlock:17 Saudades - No. 3, Heraclitus […]
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