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2021-08-23 11:21:59
New artistic directors Rosalind Ventris & Joseph Fort announce programme for their first Cowbridge Music Festival
Seckou Keita and Catrin Finch (Photo Andy Morgan) In April this year it was announced that husband and wife team, Rosalind Ventris and Joseph Fort were the new directors of the Cowbridge Music Festival, based at the Welsh town of Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan. And now their first festival programme has been announced. Running from 1 to 16 October 2021, the festival features nine concerts with each evening event being repeated. The festival is opened by the Feinstein Ensemble in a programme of Baroque concertos, and the closing event is jazz from the Clare Teal Trio. In between Welsh harpist Catrin Finch joins forces with Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita, mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons and pianist Christopher Glynn are joined by violist and festival artistic director Rosalind Ventris for music by Brahms and Clara Schumann, Franco-Belgian cellist makes her Welsh debut alongside regular duo partner, pianist Julien Brocal in music by […]
2020-09-17 07:04:57
Petworth Festival - live on-line
You won't need to travel to Petworth for this year's Petworth Festival as the events are all being performed live in Petworth and streamed on the festival website. And a fine line-up of performers they have too, with instrumental recitals, chamber concerts and Beethoven concerto. The festival runs from 16 October to 1 November 2020, and opens with Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3. Other events include cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason in Bridge, Beethoven and Rachmaninov, pianist Mitsuko Uchida in Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, violinist Tasmin Little in one of her final concerts before retirement performing music by Brahms, Strauss, Amy Beach and Lili Boulanger with pianist John Lenehan, guitarist Milos, and pianists Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva in Brahms, Schubert and Beethoven. There are also concerts from Clare Teal and her trio, and Patti Boulaye, who is singing repertoire associated […]
2019-11-23 12:58:00
Britten Death in Venice, McVicar, Royal Opera House
photo: Catherine Ashmore, Royal Opera House Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice in a new production by David McVIcar, at the Royal Opera House, reviewed HERE in Opera Today by Claire Seymour who wrote the book Benjamin Britten and his operas. The Royal Opera House isn't the ideal venue for an opera like Death in Venice, which is why it's usually done in smaller houses, as indeed most of Britten;s operas are, given their intense "inwardness". Gloriana is the exception, not the rule, but even that works infinitely better when it's understood as an opera-within-an opera, its powerful message hidden from those who listen only on the surface.Doing Death in Venice at ROH involves re-thinking scale and perspective. At Covent Garden, McVicar can contrast the grandeur of Venice with its decay and corruption. Nothing is grand in a city of plague ! Aschenbach, the quintessential outsider, comes thinking he'll find inspiration, […]
2018-12-29 08:15:06
A concerto for silent soloists: my encounter with Gavin Sutherland, music director of English National Ballet
[…] risk of them just conducting the orchestra, and not the dancers. But Gavin always tells his orchestral players to watch his body language, because Gavin's eyes will not be on the players but on the stage. 'My eyes are on the stage, my body is yours'But Gavin does not just conduct ballet. He has recently make his debut with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Christmas jazz and light music with Clare Teal. Gavin Sutherland with ENB Artistic Director Tamara Rojo CBE, choreographer Akram Khan and ENB staff on the Red Carpet of the 2017 Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall, London His entry into classical music as a child was via light music, he is a former chairman of the British Light Music Society and is currently doing a Ph.D. in British TV music, and he regrets that fewer orchestras are […]
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