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2024-04-02 08:32:00
Like no other: Rachmaninoff's Vespers in a remarkable new recording arranged for men's voices
Sergei Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 (Vespers), arranged, Benedict Sheehan, Dmitri Lazarev, Alexander Gretchaninoff; PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, conductor Ekaterina Antonenko; CHANDOSReviewed 1 April 2024A new version of Rachmaninoff Vespers for men's voices preserves the work's luminous textures and adds a wonderful warm glow and rich textures, plus some spectacular voicesRachmaninoff wrote his All-Night Vigil (Vespers) for an all-male choir (men and boys) in 1915, though the work's history since then has largely been amongst mixed-voice choirs. But various attempts have been made to adapt the material to men-only choirs. Inspired by one of composer Alexander Gretchaninoff's arrangements of a movement for men-only, the PaTRAM Institute (Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute) assembled a crack men-only choir, the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, under conductor Ekaterina Antonenko to record a new version of Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil for men's voices, with soloists Igor Morozov, Evgeny Kachurovsky and Alexis V. Lukianov (co-founder of the PaTRAM […]
2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] conducted by Ashley Grote with David Dunnett (organ). A delectable and inspiring programme will be rolled out to include such wonderful and inspiring pieces as Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine, Poulenc’s Litanies à la Vierge noire and Concerto for organ, timpani and strings culminating with Duruflé’s haunting Requiem, widely recognised throughout the musical world as one of the great choral masterpieces of the 20th century. Tickets £15-£35. Norwich Cathedral Choir will lead Sung Eucharist: The Liturgy of St Benedict on the final Sunday of the choir year (14 July 10.30am) with music to include Vierne’s Messe solennelle and Wilberg’s arrangement of Come thou fount of every blessing. And for Festal Evensong and Choir Valedictions on the same day (3.30pm), marking the end of the academic year, one bids farewell to members of the choir who have completed their final year. Free admission. Full details of Norwich Cathedral’s Organ Festival, the cathedral website.
2024-02-04 14:00:38
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Aziz Shokhakimov conducts Asmik Grigorian, Brandon Jovanovich, Violeta Urmana, and Roman Burdenko in the premiere of Benedict Andrews‘s production from Munich
2023-10-20 11:02:49
Borough Theatre, AbergavennyBerlioz’s Shakespearean opera is stripped to the bone for four instruments and six singers, but the show is slick and spirited, with sopranos Lorena Paz Nieto and Monica McGhee standoutsHector Berlioz was obsessed to the point of adulation with Shakespeare. Yet when he decided to base what would be his last opera on Much Ado about Nothing and write his own libretto, he had no compunction in making big changes, removing various characters and replacing the clowns with Somarone, a buffo invention of his own. Berlioz thought of his opera as a caprice, “written with the point of a needle”.For their bright and shiny new SmallStages tour, Mid Wales Opera and artistic director Richard Studer take their cue from the composer and further strip the comedy to the bone for an ensemble of six singers. Music director Jonathan Lyness has filleted the score to a quartet of […]
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