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- mezzo-soprano
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2024-03-29
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2024-02-29 07:43:00
One of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich comes round in the merry month of May.
[…] American-based troupe, Circolombia. ‘Specifically created for the Adnams Spiegeltent in Festival Gardens, the show has a lengthy residency running for 12 days from Wednesday 15th to Sunday 26th May offering audiences breathless acrobatic feats with a distinctive Latin feel complemented by a host of incredible pieces of infectious Latin-flavoured music reflecting the production overall. ‘Importantly, though, there’s a strong flavour of East Anglia about this year’s festival featuring artists such as Laura Cannell, Molly Naylor and Luke Wright but also with our new community collaborations we’re bringing to the fore the voices of many, many local people.’ However, punctuating the festival’s opening weekend, the Aurora Orchestra, under the dynamic leadership of Nicholas Collon, will return to the festival for the first time in seven years performing Beethoven’s third symphony, one of the composer’s most celebrated works marking the beginning of his innovative ‘middle period’. As is their trademark, they’ll be performing the ‘Eroica’ […]
2024-02-16 00:00:00
Some lesser-known 20th century Cello Concertos
Hungarian Cello Concertos:01 - 03 Mátyás Seiber: Tre Pezzi for cello & orchestra (1956) [19'57]04 - 06 Antal Dorati: Cello Concerto (1977) [33'42]07 - 09 Béla Bartók (arr. Tibor Serly): Viola Concerto (1945) [23'49]Raphael Wallfisch- cello, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Gábor Takács-NagyNimbus NI 5919 [recorded January 2014; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, WalesRecording engineer: Huw Thomas; Producer: Adrian FarmerBritish Cello Concertos:01 - 02 John Joubert: Cello Concerto, op.171 (2012) [23'02]03 - 06 Robert Simpson: Cello Concerto (1991) [28'40]07 - 09 Christopher Wright: Cello Concerto (2011) [18'56]Raphael Wallfisch- cello, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by William BoughtonLyrita SRCD344 [recorded December 2013; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, WalesRecording engineer: Huw Thomas; Producer: Adrian FarmerSainsbury and Foulds:01 - 03 Lionel Sainsbury: Cello Concerto, op.27 (1999) * [33'22]04 - 06 John Foulds: Cello Concerto in […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] gravest difficulties, had caused a general neglect of musical matters, which extended even to the German public and the revolution of March 18, 1848, which seemed for a time to paralyze the entire public mind, had the effect to confirm and hasten the purpose of the young musicians. The original plan of the organization was to start directly for the United States. At a preliminary entertainment, given before the United States Minister to Berlin, Mr. Wright, the English Ambassador, the Early of Westmoreland, was present. The Earl was somewhat distinguished as an amateur in music, and an overture of his composition was performed on this occasion. This first concert of the young society took place May 4, 1848, in the Milentzschen Saale, at Berlin. It was so decidedly successful that both the Earl and the American Minister furnished the orchestra with strong recommendatory letters, and thus fortified they resolved first […]
2024-01-17 11:48:00
Antikrist, Deutsche Oper, 13 January 2024
Lucifer, A Voice – Thomas Lehman God’s Voice – Jonas Grundner-Culemann The Echo of the Air of Mystery – Valeriia Savinskaia The Air of Mystery – Irene Roberts The Mouth speaking Great Words – Clemens Bieber Despondency – Maire Therese Carmack The Great Whore – Flurina Stucki The Scarlet Beast – AJ Glueckert The Lie – Kieran Carrel Hatred – Philipp Jekal Dancers – Ashley Wright, Giorgia Bovo, Ana Dordevic, Sakura Inoue, Vasna Felicia Aguilar, Yuri Shimaoka, Joel Donald Small, Shih-Ping Lin, György Jellinek, Miguel Angel ColladoDirector, set designs – Ersan MondtagRevival director – Silke SenseCostumes – Ersan Mondtag, Annika Lu HermannLighting – Rainer CasperChoreography – Rob FordeynDramaturgy – Lara Gebhardt, Carolin Müller-Dohle Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Jeremy Bines) Opera-Ballet and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinHermann Bäumer (conductor)ANTIKRIST, Regie: Ersan Mondtag, Premiere 30. Januar 2022 Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Thomas Aurin Rued Langgaard’s ‘church opera’ Antikrist is […]
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