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2023-09-27 16:00:46
Verdi Requiem
From the Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Leah Hawkins, Karen Cargill, Matthew Polenzani, and Dmitry Belosselskiy in Verdi’s Requiem
2022-09-25 10:37:00
LPO/Gardner - Schoenberg, Gurrelieder, 24 September 2022
Royal Festival HallWaldemar – David Butt Philip Tove – Lise Lindstrom Wood-dove – Karen Cargill Klaus-Narr – Robert Murray Peasant – James Creswell Speaker – Alex Jennings London Philharmonic Choir (chorus director: Neville Creed)London Symphony Chorus (chorus director: Simon Halsey)London Philharmonic OrchestraEdward Gardner (conductor)Image: London Philharmonic OrchestraThe pandemic is not over. But I remember thinking, when some sort of minimal concert life was intermittently starting up again—socially distanced concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields with a maximum audience of thirty, the first and second series of Spotlight Chamber Concerts at St John’s Waterloo, and so on—what resumption of a full range of musical life would entail for me. I chose three examples, which have remained in my mind ever since: a large-scale work by Richard Strauss, a full staging of Die Meistersinger, and a performance of Gurrelieder. Strauss came a little while ago, in a performance of the Alpine Symphony—though I await a […]
2022-04-04 07:51:02
The 2022 Edinburgh International Festival celebrates the festival's 75th birthday, the final programme by artistic director Fergus Linehan and a return to a full programme in indoor spaces
[…] That opening concert will feature the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with Donald Runnicles conducting, plus the Festival Chorus and NYCOS National Girls Choir in Respighi's The Pines of Rome and Orff's Carmina Burana. The closing concert, bringing what conductor Andrew Davis describes as a message of ecstatic hope, will be Davis conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, with Andrew Staples in the title role, and two Scottish singers, Karen Cargill and Iain Paterson. Jordi Savall will be bringing a travelogue programme which explores the journeys of 14th century Islamic scholar from Algeria to Mongolia with music from across the Islamic World, and he will also be giving a second concert exploring the Armenian and Sephardic traditions. There will be the regular series of chamber concerts from the Queen's Hall, from Monday to Saturday each week of the festival with the Monday to Friday concerts […]
2021-12-29 11:02:24
[…] by Levit's recital, there was a disc of Erik Chisholm's songs from Iain Burnside and friends that put the composer in a new light, whilst Scottish music of an earlier age was the focus of Maria Valdmaa and Mikko Perkola's Aberdene 1662 based on the only book of secular music published in Scotland in the 17th century. And still with the Scots theme, the Maxwell Quartet combined vivid accounts of Haydn's London quartets with Scots traditional tunes. Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper gave us a terrific recital of French song, and Elizabeth Llewllyn's debut disc (also with Lepper) explored the long-neglected songs of Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Gareth Brynmor John and William Vann gave us a very adult exploration of childhood, whilst Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton brought seriousness and humour to A Musical Zoo. James Newby (also with Joseph Middleton) made a stunning debut with a recital centred on Beethoven's An die ferne […]
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