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English tenor singer
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2024-02-29 07:35:00
Music that is vividly alive & vibrant, yet requires concentration & dedication to listen to: Anselm McDonnell's Kraina
Anselm McDonnell: Kraina; Joshua Ellicott, Laura Sinnerton, Dermot Dunne, Rebecca Murphy, Cahal Masterson, Elizabeth Hilliard, Alan Smale, Annette Cleary, Rachel Quinn, Nicole Rourke, Dermot Dunne;Reviewed 26 February 2024New music for voice and instruments tackling the complex and the difficult, creating music that is more than just a song, and pushing performers to emotional and expressive limits.Kraina is a word in Old Polish meaning edge, borderland, or frontier. Belfast-based composer Anselm McDonnell's latest disc, Kraina, is his second album, released on his own label [see my review of Light of Shore, McDonnell's first disc]. The new disc features four works for voice and instruments (I hesitate to call them songs, some are far more substantial than that), all concerned with the edges and crevices around home: depicting people searching for home, caught between homes, or our destructive relationship with our planetary home. The performers are Joshua Ellicott, tenor, Laura Sinnerton, viola, and […]
2022-07-06 08:13:02
Beautiful Music in Beautiful Places: The Lammermuir Festival returns with 35 live performances across 16 historic venues in East Lothian
[…] rare excursion into more Verismo territory than usual for Massenet. The title role was written for the mezzo-soprano Lucy Arbell who created a number of roles in Massenet's later operas (including Dulcinée in Don Quichotte) and who had a 'close relationship' with the composer. Interestingly Arbell was the grand-daughter of Sir Richard Wallace of Wallace Collection fame.Coffee Concerts at Holy Trinity Church in Haddington feature pianist Malcolm Martineau performing all of Duparc's songs with singers Jennifer Johnston, Joshua Ellicott, Sarah Fox and James Newby, plus performances from pianist Till Fellner, violinist Viviane Hagner, French oboist Armand Djikoloum, and pianist Danny Driver.Pianist Jeremy Denk was artist in residence at the 2021 festival and he returns to perform five programmes with repertoire ranging from Bach's Violin Sonatas with violinist Maria Włozczowska to Ravel and Miss Mazzoli to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Rory MacDonald. Denk closes the festival with the Royal […]
2022-03-24 18:24:00
Alexander Goehr 90th Birthday Concert – Goehr, Richards, and Anderson, Nash Ensemble et al., 22 March 2022
Wigmore HallGoehr-Stravinsky: ….around Stravinsky, op.72, for violin, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, and bassoon Emma-Ruth Richards: de Stâmparare, for solo oboe Goehr: Largo siciliano, op.91, for piano, horn, and violin Goehr: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, op.102, for voice, clarinet, and piano (world premiere) Julian Anderson: Ring Dance, for two violins Goehr: Combat of Joseph della Reina and the Devil, for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, piano, and viola (world premiere) Héloïse Werner, Emilia Bertolini (sopranos)Clare Presland (mezzo-soprano) Joshua Ellicott (tenor) Nash Ensemble Alasdair Beatson (piano/director) Alexander Goehr will be 90 in August; here the Nash Ensemble, longstanding Goehr champions, got in a little early with a celebratory concert including no fewer than two Goehr premieres and three other of his works. Compared to his two ‘Manchester School’ colleagues, Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies—John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth being very different cases—Goehr has latterly, perhaps always, had a raw […]
2021-07-28 10:40:13
Beautiful Music in Beatiful Places: Lammermuir Festival returns with live audiences
[…] McCartney, trumpeter Aaron Akugbo and organist John Kitchen, pianists Clare Hammond and Richard Uttley, the Maxwell and Navarra String Quartets, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Tenebrae, Marian Consort, and The Gesualdo Six. The Dunedin Consort returns for its 12th year, this time with Monteverdi madrigals and the Red Note Ensemble will be performing James Dillon’s Tanz/Haus. Peter Whelan conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Mozart, Britten and Haydn including Britten's Nocturne with Joshua Ellicott.
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