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Scottish composer and conductor
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2024-04-12 08:35:00
Full of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides
John Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Tears - Sean Shibe, The Dunedin ConsortMilton Court Concert HallRowallan Manuscript, Straloch Manuscript, Dowland, Purcell, Geminiani, James MacMillan arr. George Duthie, David Fennessy, Linda Catlin Smith, Cassandra Miller; Sean Shibe, The Dunedin Consort, John Butt; Milton Court concert hall, BarbicanReviewed 11 April 2024Moving from the sheer magic of Dowland writing for lute and viols through to contemporary music for guitar and strings, ending with Cassandra Miller's mesmerising new concerto. A programme full of good things that never quite coheredThe somewhat awkwardly titled Reformations: Concerto at the Barbican Centre's Milton Court concert hall featured Sean Shibe on lute and guitar alongside the strings of the Dunedin Consort, conductor John Butt, in a programme that culminated in the premiere of Cassandra Miller's new guitar concerto, Chanter. This was presented as the end point in a sequence that started with lute pieces from the Rowallan Manuscript and the Straloch […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-04-07 09:00:04
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet’s long-running and rather cumbersome Swan Lake is elevated by the dancers’ artistry, while a fine Kenneth MacMillan triple bill deserves more performancesThe status of
2024-03-28 04:00:00
EASTER PASSION MUSIC 2024 [24 CDs]
[…] Mayr Chorus and Ensemble & soloïstsFranz Hauk - directionRecorded September 2008Label: Naxos 8.572492Download 1fichier pixel workuploadHungarian Passion Musicof Liszt, Kodaly, Mosonyi, LisznyayLiszt Ferenc ChorusJan Raas - organPeter Scholcz - directionRecorded July 1993Label: Emergo EC 3964-2Download 1fichier pixel workuploadCharles Wood (1866-1926)St Mark PassionChoir of Jesus College, CambridgeJonathan Vaughn - organDaniel Hyde - directionRecorded January 2008Label: Naxos 8.570561Download 1fichier pixel workuploadGood Friday in JerusalemMedieval Byzantine chantsCapella RomanaAlexander Lingas - directionRecorded February 2013Label: CR 413Download 1fichier pixel workuploadJames MacMillan (b. 1959)Seven last Words from the CrossChoir Polyphony, James Vivian - organBritten SinfoniaStephen Layton - directionRecorded July 2003, April 2004Label: Hyperion SACD67460Download 1fichier pixel workupload [16-44] 259 MBDownload 1fichier pixel [SACD-iso] 3,73 GB
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-03-22 14:09:41
[…] dance history, which started with the spirited, passionate Duncan at the turn of the 20th century. She threw off the shackles of classical dance, restrictive fashions and social expectations to pursue freedom of artistic expression and was celebrated in the salons of Europe. But her life was a string of tragedies, primarily the deaths of her three children, alongside doomed love affairs and financial woes. This is all captured in an effective reworking of Kenneth MacMillan’s Isadora, originally created in 1981 (this version edits out her death, strangled when her scarf caught in the wheels of a car). Amy Thake, in the title role, wafts, skips and floats on the breeze, and shows us a woman who lived through her body, ruled by sensation with no fear of feelings – who had a generous dose of self-importance, too.
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