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2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] Cathedral’s spectacular 102-stop pipe organ. To book, primary schools should email [email protected] Unfortunately, there cannot be any individual booking. There’ll also be a WOOFYT! workshop for ‘grown-ups’, too, in the Weston Room (Wednesday, 10 July, 1pm) offering adults everything they want to know about organ design and construction. Tickets £5. Booking via TicketSource. Whilst also in the Weston Room (Tuesday, 9 July, 3pm) David Briggs, an internationally-acclaimed organist and improviser and artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City, will give a talk on Pierre Cochereau (born 9 July 1924) organist of Notre Dame de Paris from 1955 to 1984. By all accounts, he led an extraordinary and fulfilling life not just as an organist but also as an improviser and composer as well. Tickets £5. And being a celebrated exponent of the organ music of the 20th-century French tradition, Mr Briggs will also perform a programme […]
2024-03-20 17:55:33
The narrative twisted and mesmerised at this London gig, as indigenous rhythms were mixed with the blues
2024-03-19 14:22:39
The blues musician was armed with no more than an acoustic guitar, a stool and a bashful aw-shucks grin as he ran through his back catalogue
2024-03-19 09:58:00
Ben GoldscheiderJörg Widmann, Beethoven, Schumann, Huw Watkins, York Bowen; Ben Goldscheider, Richard Uttley; Wigmore HallReviewed 17 March 2024200 years of music for the horn as Ben Goldscheider showcases devastating technique, lovely tone and superb musicality in a programme that engaged, intrigued and challengedHorn player Ben Goldscheider's Sunday morning recital with pianist Richard Uttley at Wigmore Hall on Sunday 17 March 2024 featured a programme that stretched from Beethoven's Horn Sonata in F right through to contemporary pieces by Jörg Widmann and Huw Watkins, with Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 and York Bowen's Sonata in E flat for horn and piano, Op. 101 representing more romantic approaches to the instrument.Writing for the horn in the 18th and 19th centuries often depended on composers developing a relationship with particular players, yet we also have to remember that the technology of the horn was developing during the 19th century, though was not always adopted […]
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