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2024-03-16 13:00:05
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff; Linbury theatre; St Andrew’s church, LondonBritten’s yearning swansong blazes and beguiles in Welsh National Opera’s new production. Elsewhere, the sad tale of ‘Irish Giant’ Charles Byrne, and an enterprising orchestra for allHope ends in death. That thought tinges every bar of Benjamin Britten’s
2024-03-05 17:12:20
The 18th-century’s ‘Irish Giant’, is the subject of an acclaimed new opera. Can music give Charles Byrne the dignity he was denied in both life and death? Its composer tells how she gave shape to his story and sound to his worldIt was going to be an album track: Charles Byrne Is Dreaming – but somehow, like this song’s protagonist, the music outgrew itself. My three-minute number evolved into a 90-minute opera, which
2024-03-05 07:39:00
Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments - London Handel Players
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - title pageSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann; London Handel Players, director Adrian Butterfield; Wigmore HallReviewed 1 March 2024An evening of colours and timbres as London Handel Players explore multi-instrument concertos including some intriguing solo combinations, all performed with style and engaging aplombBach's manuscript for his Brandenburg Concertos describes them as Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments and the London Handel Players, director Adrian Butterfield, used this title for their Friday 1 March 2024 concert at Wigmore Hall which featured six concertos, two each by Bach, Telemann and Vivaldi, for a wide variety of plusieurs instruments. The fashion for multi-instrument concertos seems to have come to a head during the 1720s and 1730s (Bach's Brandenburg Concertos manuscript is dated 1721) and the results vary from two or three instruments to a positive concerto grosso-like ensemble.We began with Telemann's Concerto in E for flute, oboe d'amore, viola d'amore and strings, three rather […]
2024-02-02 15:51:56
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