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2021-03-07 10:37:13
A Life On-Line: Welsh song, 20th-century quartets and quintets, Lamentations old and new
[…] presented Lamentations, a programme of meditative music in aid of the charity MIND. The programme mixed Josquin's Miserere, and Robert White's Lamentations a 6, alongside contemporary pieces with Lacrimosa by the 17-year-old Tiara Oberoi, a striking short work which won the Young Adjudicators’Prize at the Commonwealth Composition Challenge 2020, and Pro Dolorosa which was written for the Swan Consort by Dawn Walters. The programme was released on OnJam.tv. I first met the young baritone Jake Muffett when he was at the National Opera Studio, and he kindly sang in the chorus for my opera The Gardeners in 2019. He is now at the Opera Studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf where he has recorded a terrific account of the Salt Water Ballads, four settings of John Masefield by Frederick Keel (1871-1954). Keel wrote at least one of the songs whilst he was confined in the Ruhleben internment camp […]
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2021-03-03 10:27:32
An opera baritone pitches into sea shanties
Berlin baritone Jake Muffett has recorded the Four Salt-Water Ballads by Frederick Keel, a rare addition to the shanty repertoire. But shanties are going viral these days. Jake says: I purchased a copy of this music over a year ago from a charity shop in Croydon and only very recently realised it was dated 1920 […]
2020-05-03 09:41:38
A Life On-Line: Alan Bush, Tudor queens in Italy and Jakub Józef Orliński at the Wigmore Hall
[…] seems underrated, and his opera Watt Tyler is very high on my want to see list.On YouTube, Stile Antico has been having fun creating an on-line version of Tallis' glorious 40-part motet, Spem in Alium [YouTube], performing a work rather larger than their regular repertoire. Pianist Tom Poster and violinist Elena Urioste's #UriPosteJukebox continues including, this week, the premiere of new pieces Bloom by Cheryl Frances-Hoad [YouTube], and Arietta by Huw Watkins [YouTube]. Baritone Jake Muffett has been posting a series of Corona-Projects, involving his own singing and instrumental talents, I was particularly taken with his version of Handel's duet 'The Lord is a man of war', featuring himself on baritone (x2), keyboard and multiple clarinets [YouTube]Jake Muffett may be familiar to readers from his year at the National Opera Studio (he also kindly sang in the chorus for my opera The Gardeners last year), and you can catch […]
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