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2021-04-02 10:18:43
A Life On-Line: Bach, Haydn, MacMillan and Victoria for Holy Week, with Britten too
The Octagon Tower, Ely Cathedral (photo Mark Seton) Holy Week has always been a busy time for singers and musicians, and it seems that without live performances many ensembles are finding ways to continue that. So our on-line experiences this week ranged from Bach and Haydn to James MacMillan, with some Britten and Victoria as well, coming from St John's Smith Square, Ely Cathedral, Wigmore Hall and Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam. Our week began with Bach, though not quite the works you would expect for Holy Week. On Monday, as part of St John's Smith Square's Holy Week Festival, violinist Lana Trotovšek performed Bach's great Partita No. 2 in D minor which concludes with the 'Chaconne'. The performance reflected the current thinking that the work is a tombeau for Bach’s first wife, Maria Barbara, who had died unexpectedly while Bach was away in Karlsbad, and that the 'Chaconne' […]
2021-03-22 07:40:09
The annual Holy Week Festival at St John's Smith Square, artistic director Nigel Short, will be taking place on-line this year from 28 March to 5 April 2021. The festival opens on Palm Sunday with a sequence of music and readings from Nigel Short and Tenebrae with music from Weelkes and Victoria to Casals and Poulenc. Violinist Lana Trotovšek will join four of Tenebrae's Associate Artists for a programme which interleaves Bach's music for solo violin with chorales, and the Revolutionary Drawing Room will be performing Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross with readings from The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle. There will be live-streamed services on Spy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday with Tenebrae providing music including Victoria, Allegri, Bruckner, and Tallis, and on Easter Saturday, Amici Voices perform Bach's St Matthew Passion. For me, though the highlight must be violinist Bojan Čičić and […]
2020-09-21 10:14:40
A Life On-Line: Joyce DiDonato in the Ruhr, ORA Singers in the Turbine Hall, Dowland at Hatfield House
Suzi Digby and ORA Singers in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern Our week started with Joyce DiDonato who gave a live recital as part of the Met Stars Live series. Originally intended to be filmed in Barcelona (where DiDonato lives), the venue was moved twice and ended up being filmed at the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum in the Ruhr, Germany. The programme, inspired by the Langston Hughes poem I dreamed a world, moved freely between Baroque and Contemporary, with a lot in between and there was an element of 'no expense spared' about it as for the Baroque music, DiDonato was accompanied by the period instrument ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro, and for the remainder of the repertoire by Carrie-Ann Matheson on piano. It was a staged recital, DiDonato did not use music and brought a strong element of dramatic staging to her performance, so that a vivid yet fragile account […]
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