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2021-08-12 06:37:08
Nature's Songbook: Oxford Lieder Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary with its biggest festival yet and a return to live audiences
[…] and Hermit Songs to composers like Weill, Korngold and Dvorak working in the USA, a celebration of the African-American composer Harry T Burleigh, whose works helped shape the sound of American music, from Aaron Copland's settings of Emily Dickinson (with soprano Nadine Benjamin and pianist Nicole Panizza performing songs from their recent Emily Dickinson CD, see my review) to Stephen Sondheim sung by mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately and tenor Nicky Spence. Having recently interviewed tenor Ilker Arcayürek, I look forward to hearing him in recital with Simon Lepper. Another recent interview was with composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad, whose song-cycle everything grows extravagantly, with words by Kate Wakeling, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Oxford Botanic Garden and will be premiered by baritone Marcus Farnsworth and pianist Libby Burgess. Whilst list of performers at the festival is a veritable who's who from an opening concert with mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and pianist Julius […]
2021-05-03 08:26:33
1984, Easter Passions, Leeds & Manchester Lieder, Flight in Seattle
We've just sent out our monthly newsletter, April on Planet Hugill: 1984, Easter Passions, Leeds & Manchester Lieder, Flight in Seattle. If you don't already receive it, this monthly newsletter is a great way to catch up with reviews, articles, interviews and features that you might have missed on Planet Hugill in the last month. April's record reviews included neglected 20th century music from rare Richard Strauss and the piano music of Florence Price to English clarinet concertos and The Turkish Five, and we also celebrate contemporary composers from Jamaica, Australia and the Faroe Islands. And we interviewed tenor Ilker Arcayürek on the art of the song recital, pianist Elan Sicroff on the music of Thomas de Hartmann, Toms Ostrovskis on the challenges of creating the Riga Jurmala Academy during lockdown, and conductor George Jackson on Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with which he opens this year's Opera Holland Park season. […]
2021-04-19 06:42:53
Fantasie Nègre - The Piano Music of Florence Price
[…] Vitezslava Kapralova - record review 60th birthday celebration: Faroese composer Sunleif Rasmussen's works for recorder player Michala Petri survyed in this engaging and imaginative disc - record review Music of sundrie sorts, and to content divers humours: Byrd's 1588 Psalmes, Sonets & songs of sadness and pietie in its first complete recording from Alamire - record review Bringing audiences into closer contact with the poetry: tenor Ilker Arcayürek on the art of the song recital and his new disc of Schubert songs - interview Home
2021-04-18 09:32:43
New Beginnings indeed: the Royal Northern Sinfonia and its principal conductor designate, Dinis Sousa, launch Sage Gateshead's new live season
[…] Vitezslava Kapralova - record review 60th birthday celebration: Faroese composer Sunleif Rasmussen's works for recorder player Michala Petri survyed in this engaging and imaginative disc - record review Music of sundrie sorts, and to content divers humours: Byrd's 1588 Psalmes, Sonets & songs of sadness and pietie in its first complete recording from Alamire - record review Bringing audiences into closer contact with the poetry: tenor Ilker Arcayürek on the art of the song recital and his new disc of Schubert songs - interview Scholarship and enjoyment combine in Il Gusto Barocco's lovely fresh account of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos - record review Home
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