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2024-04-24 11:23:00
Summer at Snape, Britten Pears Arts' series of events at Snape returns for 2024
[…] of the remarkable life of Clara Schumann.Young artists in the series include Suffolk Youth Orchestra in Britten and Rimsky-Korsakov, Aldeburgh Young Musicians, an artist development programme for musicians aged 10-18, Apollo5 leading Explore Your Voice, a workshop offering singers the chance to enhance their vocal capabilities and engage in group singing, VOICEBOX and soprano Juliet Fraser's Unbound project [see my interview with Juliet], Britten Pears Young Artists present their End of Course Recital and Bandstand at The Maltings, hosted on the Henry Moore Lawn, spotlights local talent from across Suffolk programmed by Britten Pears Arts and young creatives.Full details from Britten Pears Arts website.
2024-04-22 10:01:00
Holst 150, complete Shostakovich quartets, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer: Lichfield Festival 2024
[…] Will Pound and percussionist Delia Stevens. Pianist Danny Driver plays two recitals, closing the Festival with candle-lit Bach in the Cathedral. Other chamber music highlights are the complete Shostakovich quartets from Brodsky Quartet spread over a single weekend, Oz Clarke and Armonico Consort’s light-hearted look at music and wine A Second Sip, and a late night concert by 2024 RPS Instrumental award-winning sitar player Jasdeep Singh Degun. Recorder quartet Palisander’s historical concert experience follows the wives of Henry VIII in Divorced, Beheaded, Died, and still in an historical bent, Lesley Smith presents the story of Mary Queen of Scots in full Elizabethan costume, and and The Lord Chamberlain’s Men perform Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the open air, in period costume, with an all-male cast, just as it would have been in Elizabeth I’s day. The popular Midlands Choir of the Year returns with the final taking place in the Cathedral. For younger audiences, Waterperry Opera returns with […]
2024-04-22 09:09:00
The Celestial Stranger: new song cycle inspired by Thomas Traherne's recently discovered manuscript
Joana Carneiro & Gavan RingThomas Traherne was a Herefordshire clergyman who died in 1674 aged 38. Known now as a poet to equal his great contemporary religious writers John Donne, George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, his works had been substantially lost and are only recently being rediscovered. His Centuries of Meditation was only rediscovered in 1898, other volumes turned up but the biggest cache of his work was found only as recently as 1997 at Lambeth Palace Library where they were catalogued as anonymous. Amongst these works is a 42-chapter treatise entitled The Kingdom of God which includes The Celestial Stranger, where Traherne imagines a visitor from a distant universe visiting earth and being held in wonder by its riches and beauty.Musically, Traherne is perhaps best known as the poet for Gerald Finzi's Dies Natalis which draws on three Traherne poems plus text from Centuries of Meditation.Traherne's The Celestial Stranger is now the inspiration for a song-cycle by […]
2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] engineer: Phil Rowlands; Producer: Tim Handley Malcolm Arnold:01 - 03 Philharmonic Concerto, op.120 [14'49]04 - 07 Fantasy on a theme of John Field, op.116 * [22'09]08 John Field: Nocturne No.7 in C major 'Reverie' * [5'02]09 - 11 Symphony No.7, op.113 [31'13]Peter Donohoe- piano *; Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin YatesDutton Epoch CDLX 7318 [recorded June 2014; issued 2015][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recording venue: RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, Scotland.Recording engineer: Dexter Newman; Producer: Michael PonderDmitri Shostakovich:01 Piano Sonata No.1 in D major, op.12 [12'21]02 - 05 Piano Concerto No.1 in C minor (for piano, trumpet and strings), op.35 * [21'40]06 - 08 Piano Sonata No.2 in B minor, op.61 [26'42]09 - 11 Piano Concerto No.2 in F major, op.102 * [19'00]Peter Donohoe- piano; Orchestra of the Swan conducted by David Curtis*Signum Classics SIGCD493 [recorded April & December 2015 and […]
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