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2024-04-10 09:31:00
Dramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court
[…] colour and timbre to highlight the words. This was a highly dramatic account of a work usually performed by lyrically, with Spence using text and music to tell a series of stories. Spence does not have a conventional lyric tenor voice, yet his ability to fine his instrument down was remarkable and in some movements, such as Hymn, he was dextrous and nimble in a way that you do not expect Wagner's Siegmund and Saint-Saens' Samson to be.Pastoral was quite measured, there was something hypnotic about Spence's delivery, quite deliberate with an intensity to the words. Nocturne casually heroic with Goldscheider making the horn calls rather evocative, and the string playing calling to mind the Judith Weir from earlier. Spence was very involved in the story-telling here, timbre and colour playing a great role as well as him releasing the heroic elements in his voice. Elegy was strong and intense, […]
2024-04-02 10:00:11
On this day in 1977 tenor Guy Chauvet made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Samson The post appeared first on parterre box.
2024-03-26 08:10:00
A radical new look: full line-up for Nevill Holt's 2024 festival
[…] concerning a child, a rabbit, a devil, a druid and their mysterious connection to a celebrated dolmen.Britten Sinfonia will also be giving a concert featuring music by Benjamin Kwasi-Burrell and Sergey Akhunov, plus Max Richter's version of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, accompanied by David Yarrow photography. There are recitals from pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, tenor Nicky Spence, soprano Mary Bevan & pianist Joseph Middleton, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly & pianist Imogen Cooper, and pianists Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy (including Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring).Alexis Ffrench will be performing music from his latest album, Michael Morpurgo will be reading passages from his novel War Horse with musical accompaniment from Ben Murray, Anton Lesser will read excerpts from Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall with music by Debbie Wiseman played by Katherine Rockhill. Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Dan Tepfer will be performing French chanson and there is more French chanson from Jessica Walker and […]
2024-01-24 04:14:22
Tupac fan Samson Setu thought professional rugby was his future until opera – and his extraordinary
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