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2024-03-13 23:56:07
Maybe you’ve seen brief mentions of the Jewish Music Festival, with musical performances, lectures and sometimes art exhibitions taking place throughout the area. The festival is brand new, and organized by Aik Khai Pung, associate professor at CCM, where he is music director of the CCM Concert Orchestra. I noticed in an online listing that […]
2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] Danish violinist/conductor, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and Latvian violinist Baiba Skride. They’ll feature in the extensive chamber-music series while a couple of performances of a brand-new production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District by Leipzig Opera (a work that totally displeased Stalin) will be conducted by Andris Nelsons. However, on my current visit to Leipzig, the Gewandhausorchester conducted by Alan Gilbert and the GewandhausChor under the direction of Gregor Mayer delivered a sensitive and soulful performance of Lera Auerbach’s Symphony No.6 (Vessels of Light) featuring Israeli cellist, Kristina Reiko Cooper, who, incidentally, performed at the work’s première and, indeed, came up with the idea for the work. Singing in Yiddish, the quartet of outstanding vocalists was admirably led by German soprano, Johanna Ihrig, who harbours a strong, richly textured wide-ranging voice, well supported by Nora Steuerwald (contralto), Falk Hoffmann (tenor) and Steven Klose (bass) complemented by the ‘poetic whispering voices’ (Flüsterstimmen) of Eliana Pliskin […]
2024-01-22 16:00:12
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2023-09-28 14:42:44
Pier Pavilion, PenarthA programme of Caroline Shaw, Augusta Read Thomas, Lera Auerbach and Gabriela Lena Frank offered richly coloured and moving music, expressively played by Sinfonia CymruSinfonia Cymru’s chamber programme – given as part of this year’s
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