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American composer and conductor
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2024-03-18 07:35:00
Quite an achievement: the North London Chorus' ambition rewarded in a performance of Ethel Smyth's The Prison that intrigued and engaged
[…] and complex orchestral support. There are a few sections resembling set pieces, aria-like moments for the soloists and big choruses, but the main effect is fluid flow. Smyth write lyrically, but without any thumping tunes, and in many ways the work evoked for me Elgar's late oratorios The Apostles and The Kingdom, which similarly use this sort of fluid flow, and Smyth's approach to setting Brewster's rather dense text seemed to draw hints of Vaughan Williams' approach to Walt Whitman in his writing for the soloists in his Sea Symphony. But the work resembles neither of these. The orchestra doesn't so much accompany as contribute to the dialogue, rather than supporting the voices the instruments create a web of sound around them, and Smyth's writing for the large orchestra (triple woodwind) is remarkably transparent, with quite a lot of soloistic writing for individual instruments. It is a highly sophisticated work […]
2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] Janne Fredens & pianist Søren Rastogi in music by four women composers from the years 1911 to 1918 - record reviewSomething astonishing: Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice for Welsh National Opera involved a collaboration with circus arts, NoFit State - opera reviewLumen Christi: I chat to Master of Music, Simon Johnson about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral - interviewSzymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams - concert reviewDanza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful élan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun - record reviewIan Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar - concert reviewSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: London Handel Players at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewMusical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress - opera reviewShamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the […]
2024-03-15 09:42:00
Almost an expressionist nightmare: Janáček's Jenůfa at ENO with Jennifer Davis in the title role
[…] Janne Fredens & pianist Søren Rastogi in music by four women composers from the years 1911 to 1918 - record reviewSomething astonishing: Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice for Welsh National Opera involved a collaboration with circus arts, NoFit State - opera reviewLumen Christi: I chat to Master of Music, Simon Johnson about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral - interviewSzymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams - concert reviewDanza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful élan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun - record reviewIan Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar - concert reviewSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: London Handel Players at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewMusical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress - opera reviewShamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the […]
2024-03-13 08:05:00
Little short of a revelation: Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset explore Wagner's influences with In the Shadows
[…] Fredens & pianist Søren Rastogi in music by four women composers from the years 1911 to 1918 - record reviewSomething astonishing: Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice for Welsh National Opera involved a collaboration with circus arts, NoFit State - opera reviewLumen Christi: I chat to Master of Music, Simon Johnson about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral - interviewSzymanowski's rarely performed Harnasie from the LPO, with a visual installation from Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams - concert reviewDanza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful élan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun - record reviewIan Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar - concert reviewSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: London Handel Players at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewMusical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress - opera reviewShamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the […]
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