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2020-05-04 16:05:22
Our critics pick a daily highlight from the treasure trove of online music to help get you through lockdown. This week we bring you slo-mo Pärt, a glorious Figaro and Beethoven’s tenth - yes really Browse our picks from:• week six• week five• week four• week three• week two• week one Filmed in 2017, John Cox’s Garsington Opera production of Mozart’s Figaro is a superb example of traditional period staging at its best: intelligent without resorting to weighty glosses and marvellous in both its sharpness of social and psychological observation and its subtlety of detail. It’s beautifully sung and acted by a finely integrated ensemble cast that pits Joshua Bloom’s thoughtful Figaro and Jennifer France’s spirited Susanna against Duncan Rock’s dangerously attractive Count. Kirsten MacKinnon is his put-upon Countess, troubled yet tellingly delighted by the attentions of Marta Fontanals-Simmons’s Cherubino, and there are wonderful performances from Janis Kelly, rarely bettered as […]
2019-01-25 07:43:17
Faure Requiem from Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School
Faure Requiem, Cantique Jean Racine, Messe Basse; Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Belgravia Chamber Orchestra, Scott Price; Herald Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 24 January 2019 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) A performance with an appealing simplicity and directness from the young singersThis disc from Herald, recorded in 2015, gives us the original chamber version of Faure's Requiem recorded by the all-male Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School and the Belgravia Chamber Orchestra, conductor Scott Price, with Jack Comerford (baritone), Karol Jozwik (treble) and Iestyn Evans (organ). There is more Faure for the companion pieces, the Messe Basse (with treble soloist Alessandro MacKinnon), Cantique Racine and Ave Maria. The performance rather surprises at first, because Scott Price's speed is so remarkably slow for the opening section. It works, just, but I was quite relieved when the faster section started to move at a more familiar […]
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2018-01-24 13:15:29
San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre Has Found Its Next Artistic Director
Pam MacKinnon, who has been nominated for three Tony Awards and won one (for the 2013 revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), will take over from departing artistic director Carey Perloff on July 1.
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2017-10-19 10:07:12
Photo:Tristram Kenton Ferrando (Bogdan Volkov) and Fiordiligi (Kirsten MacKinnon) in Glyndebourne Tour Così fan tutte It is always such a pleasure to encounter such new Mozart talent and so it was a joy to see and hear Bogdan Volkov and...
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