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2024-03-06 07:55:00
In case you missed it: our latest newsletter, February on Planet Hugill, has just gone out
My newsletter, February on Planet Hugill, has just gone out, a month that took us from Delibes' Lakmé to Wagner's Siegfried to some terrific new music. Stephen McNeff's opera A Star Next to the Moon premiered and Stephen also talked to us about the genesis of the work, there was also Gavin Higgin's terrific new Horn Concerto, not to mention music by Helen Grime and Freya Waley-Cohen, not forgetting ENO's revival of Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale. Transgender tenor Holden Madagame talked to us about their journey towards singing Mime in Siegfried, and interviews included film composer Eímear Noone, soprano Jenny Stafford on performing Puccini's Manon Lescaut to open English Touring Opera's Spring season, Polish-born, Australian composer Paul Kopetz on his latest disc and composer Jacques Cohen on his Charles Dickens-inspired monodrama, The Lady of Satis House.You can read the latest issue on MadMimi.If you don't already receive it, then sign up here.
2024-03-05 07:39:00
Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments - London Handel Players
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - title pageSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann; London Handel Players, director Adrian Butterfield; Wigmore HallReviewed 1 March 2024An evening of colours and timbres as London Handel Players explore multi-instrument concertos including some intriguing solo combinations, all performed with style and engaging aplombBach's manuscript for his Brandenburg Concertos describes them as Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments and the London Handel Players, director Adrian Butterfield, used this title for their Friday 1 March 2024 concert at Wigmore Hall which featured six concertos, two each by Bach, Telemann and Vivaldi, for a wide variety of plusieurs instruments. The fashion for multi-instrument concertos seems to have come to a head during the 1720s and 1730s (Bach's Brandenburg Concertos manuscript is dated 1721) and the results vary from two or three instruments to a positive concerto grosso-like ensemble.We began with Telemann's Concerto in E for flute, oboe d'amore, viola d'amore and strings, three rather […]
2024-03-04 07:33:00
Musical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progess - Act Three, scene one: the graveyardFrederick Jones, Jerome Knox - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith)Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress: Frederick Jones/Brenton Spiteri, Nazan Fikret, Jerome Knox, Trevor Eliot Bowes, Lauren Young, director: Polly Graham, conductor Jack Sheen; English Touring Opera at Hackney EmpireReviewed 2 March 2024A refreshing lack of preconceived ideas but visually confusing production offset by strong musical performances including Brenton Spiteri taking over the role of Tom with aplomb part way throughEnglish Touring Opera's Spring tour continued with the launch of Polly Graham's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Hackney Empire on 2 March 2024, with Jack Sheen conducting. Frederick Jones was singing Tom Rakewell, but before the performance it was announced that Jones had recently returned after illness, and after the Act One the role was sung from the side of the stage by Brenton Spiteri (who is playing […]
2024-03-02 09:03:00
Shamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change
[…] on 16 March, he also has a concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, whilst his Summer is still somewhat up in the air. But in the Autumn he will be returning to; 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands for the International Vocal Competition. He has also been playing the piano a lot, and gave a two-piano recital with a pupil, performing music by Mozart, Schumann and Saint-Saens's Variations on a Theme by Beethoven, plus a paraphrase on Offenbach's Robinson Crusoe. (And they will be giving a piano duet recital too). He comments that there is a lot of good repertoire for two pianos, a lot of it not often performed partly through the logistics of having two pianos.He remains enthusiastic about performing rarer repertoire, he is not giving up on that and adds that he is not giving up at all.Stanford's Shamus O'Brien is released on 8 March 2024 by Retrospect Opera. David […]
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