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Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer
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2023-11-03 09:44:00
An evening of wit, delight and magic: Silent Slapsticks at The Ritzy with Brixton Chamber Orchestra
Matthew O'Keeffe and the Brixton Chamber Orchestra at The Ritzy, BrixtonFilm Orchestrated: Silent Slapsticks, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Matthew O'Keeffe; Brixton Chamber Orchestra, Matthew O'Keefe; Ritzy Cinema, BrixtonReviewed 2 November 2023Classic silent films from the 19th century through to the 1920s, provided with vividly engaging live soundtracks including some improvisation in an evening of wit, delight and sheer magic.The Ritzy cinema in Brixton was built in 1911, one of England's first purpose-built cinemas and as such, designed for films to be shown with live music. We are used to modern blockbuster films appearing in the concert hall with live orchestral scores but the era of Thames Silents, with Carl Davis conducting a huge score to accompany a major silent film, seems to be over. The Ritzy's Film Orchestrated series aims to reclaim that. For the latest instalment, Silent Slapsticks, the Brixton Chamber Orchestra, music director Matthew O'Keeffe, was on hand to provide accompaniment to a […]
2022-04-01 07:11:11
Bringing the House Down: bass Brindley Sherratt on the gala at Glyndebourne for The Meath
Brindley Sherratt with his daughter Amy (Photo Colin Hart) In March 2020, I interviewed bass Brindley Sherratt in advance of a gala concert at Glyndebourne, Bringing the House Down, in aid of The Meath, a residential care home for people with complex epilepsy where Brindley's daughter, Amy lives. The pandemic caused the cancellation of the concert, but it is finally taking place. On 10 April 2022 Brindley Sherratt will be joined by Fleur Barron, Jennifer France, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Sally Mathews, Huw Montague Rendall, Rachel Nicholls, Alexandra Oomens, Mark Padmore CBE, Brindley Sherratt, Nicky Spence and Freddie De Tommaso. The singers will be accompanied by pianists Matthew Fletcher and Caroline Jaya Ratnam, Chris Addison will Compère and the pledge-master will be Adrian Biddell. The singers will perform popular arias and ensembles from opera and musicals and there will be a short screening of a film of The […]
2022-03-20 10:18:42
Anglais - First Revival of Phelim McDermott’s Così fan tutte at the London Coliseum
Così fan tutte of 1790 is the third and final opera (after Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni) on which Mozart collaborated with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Originally set in Naples, it sees the philosopher Don Alfonso challenge two soldiers, Ferrando and Guglielmo, to prove that their respective fiancées, the sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi, are faithful. He is certain that no woman ever is, but the younger men are so convinced of their own lovers’ fidelity that they agree to a wager with him. They will pretend to be called away to war and then return disguised as Albanians to try to win over the women, and they consent to doing exactly as Don Alfonso instructs for the period of the bet. Part of the tension lies in the fact that, on the surface, Ferrando and Guglielmo do not wish to succeed in chatting up the sisters […]
2020-09-19 14:55:00
Stanley HallsBeethoven: Overture: ‘Coriolan’, op.62 Emily Doolittle: A Short, Slow Life Beethoven: Ah! perfido, op.65 Mendelssohn: Symphony no.4 in A major, ‘Italian’, op.90 Carleen Ebbs (soprano)St Paul’s Sinfonia Andrew Morley (conductor) Attending a concert in London has at present something of the Prohibition era to it. Music-making is not quite prohibited, of course, yet not so far off, even without an audience. (Football, being a matter of crucial national importance, is of course another matter.) And so it was that I found myself taking three trains to South Norwood to hear this St Paul’s Sinfonia concert in the Edwardian Stanley Halls, part of a select yet enthusiastic audience, augmented several times over at home, I trust, by a Front Rooms Concert audience, helping raise money for Help Musicians. There remains something very special about the privilege of hearing Beethoven’s music this year. To feel the Coriolan Overture course through […]
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