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2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] a marvellous and invigorating concert featuring Norwich Cathedral organists, David Dunnett and Robbie. Tickets £15-£35. A festive treat, too, is in store on Sunday, 7 July, 10.30am, with Organ Festival Eucharist, a special and celebratory service featuring Norwich Cathedral Choir accompanied by members of Norwich Baroque. Music includes Haydn’s Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo ( the Little Organ Mass). In the afternoon of the same day, Organ Festal Evensong (3.30pm) features Norwich Cathedral Choir singing William Walton’s Chichester Service and the festival anthem, The Twelve (free admission) while in the evening of 7 July (8pm), Norwich Cathedral’s assistant organist, Robbie Carroll, will perform an organ solo transcription of Holst’s The Planets with the upper voices of Norwich Cathedral’s Chamber Choir offering their ethereal voices to the final movement ‘Neptune - the mystic’. Free admission. Retiring collection. Youth at the helm! WOOFYT! The Wooden One-Octave Organ for Young Technologists being held in […]
2024-03-21 08:18:00
Young artists in a Georgian country house setting, what's not to love
[…] Dabton House features Scottish violinist Iona McDonald and pianist Yuki Negishi in Clara Schumann, Franck, Lili Boulanger and Saint-Saens, 16-year-old cellist Will Archibald (runner up in the final of the Scottish Young SoloMusician of the Year in May 2023) with Negishi in Schumann, Ligeti and Rachmaninov, Scottish soprano Catriona McArthur with Negishi in an eclectic programme that moves from Handel and Mozart, to Schumann, Debussy, Madeleine Dring, Rebecca Clark and James MacMillan, and percussionist Callum Walton (who is evidently from Gretna Green).Absolute Classics presents a whole variety of events across the region, and the Summer Festival this year features pianist Peter Donohoe, the Rossetti Ensemble in a programme of piano quartets, brass ensemble Septura, and Opera Bohemia in Puccini's Tosca, all in Dumfries.Full details from the Absolute Classics website.
2024-03-20 10:11:00
Soundscapes, an immersive audio-visual installation that invites audiences on a sensory journey through the Yorkshire Dales
Ben Crick & Michaela French: Soundscapes - Skipton Town Hall (Photo: Jonny Walton)Soundscapes, an immersive audio-visual installation that invites audiences on a sensory journey through the Yorkshire Dales, is now open to the public at Skipton Town Hall until 1 June 2024. The brainchild of Yorkshire’s composer and conductor of Skipton Camerata, Ben Crick, the installation was created by Crick and media artist Michaela French. Projected inside a purpose-built hemispherical dome, Soundscapes combines 360° videography of the Yorkshire Dales with a symphonic soundtrack, inspired by the landscape.Audiences sit, or lie, under the cinematic dome to undertake an extraordinary experience of sight, sound, and space, with the original orchestral composition performed by Skipton Camerata, North Yorkshire's only professional orchestra. A dynamic team of creatives from across the north has collaborated to design the installation. Ben Crick & Michaela French: Soundscapes - Skipton Town Hall (Photo: Jonny Walton)Full details from Skipton Town Hall's website.Ben Crick & Michaela French: Soundscapes - […]
2024-02-15 07:23:00
A Lionel Tertis Celebration: Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu; Harmonia Mundi
[…] bring the viola back to the foreground in classical music. In order to create a repertoire, Tertis adapted existing material (famously creating a viola concerto from Elgar's Cello Concerto, see my review of Ridout's 2023 recording of this), as well as badgering composers for pieces. Like other such figures (his friend the cellist Pablo Casals, and the guitarist Segovia), Tertis' taste in music was relatively conservative and famously he would not give the premiere of Walton's Viola Concerto, though he later relented.This disc from viola player Timothy Ridout and pianist Frank Dupree and James Baillieu on harmonia mundi is a celebration of Tertis' influence. There are two major sonatas, by York Bowen and Rebecca Clarke, along with Vaughan Williams' Six Studies in English Folk Song, plus occasional pieces by Tertis himself, Frank Bridge, Brahms, Schumann, Faure, William Wolstenholme, Kreisler, W.H. Reed, Eric Coates, Cecil Forsyth, John Ireland, and Mendelssohn. And […]
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