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British composer (1944-2013)
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2024-03-25 09:57:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: Blond Eckbert and Curlew River, plus Unsuk Chin, Judith Weir, Alban Gerhardt and Daniel Pioro as featured artists
[…] Then Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne recreate the June 1961 recital by Britten and Rostropovich which saw the world premiere of Britten’s Cello Sonata, along with classic works by Schubert, Schumann and Debussy. Gerhardt will be pairing Bach and Britten with their solo cello suites.Violinist Daniel Pioro joins pianist Simon Smith for Brahms' three Violin Sonatas, and he joins with the Marian Consort for a programme of music for dusk including Tom Coult, Arvo Pärt and John Tavener. Pioro will also bring a deep-listening element, inspired by Pauline Oliveros, to a festival walk, and the violinist is also inviting people to drop in to his practice session at the Red House. And Pioro is the soloist in Britten Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth.There will be a new staging of Britten’s church parable Curlew River, 60 years after its first performance, directed by Claire van Kampen with music director […]
2024-02-27 09:59:00
Classical music must not cease from exploration
[…] no permanence after the last reverberation in the hall has gone. Scores are impermanent as they depend on interpretation, while interpretation itself is impermanent and driven by fashion. Recordings are impermanent as they depend on the replay system. Concert halls are impermanent - each year brings a new, more expensive, even better, supposedly acoustic perfect bricks and mortar masterpiece. As the very wise Kaikhosru Sorabji told us, "Talk about immortal masterpieces is rather ridiculous": whatever happened to John Tavener's The Protecting Veil and Henryk Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs?Arts funding is also impermanent, a reality that the classical industry great and good refuse to acknowledge. The supply of classical music is also impermanent as again, despite the denial of industry experts, ultimately supply must balance with demand. And, very importantly, the classical audience is impermanent - the new young audience that classical music has been chasing for two decades is no longer a new young audience. To rejuvenate itself […]
2024-02-06 16:15:49
His transcendent work was nominated for the Mercury prize – and today, in what would have been the composer’s 80th birthday year, it speaks even more deeply at a time of global strifeI first encountered John Tavener when I was a young chorister at King’s College, Cambridge. We were singing his choral work,
2024-01-18 17:21:37
Ruby Hughes/Manchester CollectiveBISAn intriguing collection of music includes songs by Vaughan Williams, John Tavener, Errollyn Wallen and Deborah Pritchard This is an intriguing, eclectic programme from the soprano
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