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2024-02-10 09:27:00
A Star Next to the Moon: Stephen McNeff on his new opera, based on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, a seminal novel of magic realism
On 26 February 2024, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama gives the premiere of Stephen McNeff's new opera, A Star Next to the Moon, in a production directed by Martin Lloyd Evans and conducted by Dominic Wheeler. The opera is based on the iconic novel, Pedro Páramo by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, with a libretto by Aoife Mannix.Whilst the A Star Next to the Moon is new, it has a long and somewhat complex journey to fruition. Around 15 years ago, Stephen wrote some pieces for a festival in Mexico. The festival invited him there and he met the pianist Ana Cervantes who introduced him to pieces that she had commissioned and recorded based on the work of Juan Rulfo. Stephen became fascinated by Rulfo's work, particularly his only novel, Pedro Páramo. Pedro Páramo is an iconic novel in the Spanish-speaking world where people know of it from school, but […]
2023-10-13 12:01:00
Gay/RSB/Jurowski - Telemann, Boismortier, Ravel, Ibert, and Strauss, 12 October 2023
KonzerthausTelemann: Bourlesque de Quixotte, TWW 55:G10 Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez la duchesse, op.97: ballet music Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Ibert: Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte Strauss: Don Quixote, op.35 Paul Gay (bass-baritone)Alejandro Regueira Caumel (viola)Konstanze von Gutzeit (cello)Berlin Radio Symphony OrchestraVladimir Jurowksi (conductor)Images: Robert Niemeyer‘Wie klingt “Don Quijote”?’ was the question posed by (and in) the programme to this splendid tour through musical depictions of Cervantes’s would-be knight-errant. To answer the question, we discovered that Don Quixote sounds in various ways, yet always colourfully and, aptly enough, endearingly too. Vladimir Jurowski’s gift for programming, so strong a feature of his time as Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, has not deserted him in Berlin. The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) is clearly thriving under his leadership, here in music ranging from Telemann to Ravel. Telemann’s turned twice as a composer to Cervantes’s novel, in 1761 writing a […]
2022-08-09 09:07:00
Prom 30: Gavin Higgins' Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra with the Tredegar Band and BBC NOW
[…] Bach's Goldberg Variations from harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander & violinist Jorge Jimenez - record reviewStupendous achievement: Grimeborn's Ring adventure comes to a thrilling and satisfying conclusion at the Hackney Empire - opera reviewVox in Bestia: Laura Catrani uses solo voice to explore Dante's animals with music from three contemporary Italian composers - record reviewA Vaughan Williams Anthology: Tony Cooper reviews Naxos' eight-disc box set - record reviewBlack, el Payaso: Pablo Sorozábal's engaging operetta gets its UK premiere in an enterprising production by Cervantes Theatre at Grimeborn - opera reviewHandel’s Alcina - a ‘first’ for Glyndebourne - joins other great Handel gems in the company’s repertoire such as Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo and Theodora - opera reviewFinely poetic: Ernest Chausson's early Piano Trio alongside works by his contemporary, Eugene Ysaÿe - record reviewRiotous comedy & humanity: Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at West Green House Opera - opera reviewSerious Songs: Jess Dandy & Martin Roscoe in Schubert, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewSouth Pacific: Stupendous performances from Julian Ovenden & Gina Beck head this striking new version of […]
2022-08-08 09:07:00
Two very different approaches to Bach's Goldberg Variations from harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander & violinist Jorge Jimenez
[…] were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogStupendous achievement: Grimeborn's Ring adventure comes to a thrilling and satisfying conclusion at the Hackney Empire - opera reviewVox in Bestia: Laura Catrani uses solo voice to explore Dante's animals with music from three contemporary Italian composers - record reviewA Vaughan Williams Anthology: Tony Cooper reviews Naxos' eight-disc box set - record reviewBlack, el Payaso: Pablo Sorozábal's engaging operetta gets its UK premiere in an enterprising production by Cervantes Theatre at Grimeborn - opera reviewHandel’s Alcina - a ‘first’ for Glyndebourne - joins other great Handel gems in the company’s repertoire such as Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo and Theodora - opera reviewFinely poetic: Ernest Chausson's early Piano Trio alongside works by his contemporary, Eugene Ysaÿe - record reviewRiotous comedy & humanity: Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at West Green House Opera - opera reviewSerious Songs: Jess Dandy & Martin Roscoe in Schubert, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewSouth Pacific: Stupendous performances from Julian Ovenden & Gina Beck head this striking new version of […]
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