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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] to the challenge of new poems, and young performers giving the songs their voice. It is worth bearing in mind that not all the singers were Anglophone yet all worked toward that magic marriage of words and music that is song.At lunchtime on Friday 19 April 2024, the Young Artists got their chance to perform their own selection of song at the Howard Assembly Room. Aksel Ryvkin (baritone) and Zany Denyer (piano) began with two Schubert songs; Der Wanderer an den Mond, full of swagger and melancolia with great works, and Die Mutter Erde, serious and intense with a lovely, well-supported line. Then Felicitas Wrede (soprano) and Abhisri Chaudhuri (piano) took us to France, with an intense account of Debussy's Beau Soir with a lovely sense fragility in tone, followed by the first three of Ravel's Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques. The first suprisingly sober and intent but with a vibrant vibrato colouring the tone, […]
2024-04-15 11:31:18
The Venue, Leeds ConservatoireThe song festival – with Arts Council funding reinstated – opened with a meaty all-Schubert programme full of delights and camaraderieA double anniversary would be cause enough for celebration – 2024 marks Leeds Lieder’s 20th year, and a decade of pianist
2024-04-15 07:11:00
GERMAN POP LYRICS: WINTERREISE 21. The longer this journey goes on, the darker it seems to get, so i
2024-04-12 10:29:00
Turkey's leading orchestra, the German national youth orchestra plus ensembles from Tokyo, Prague, Vienna, Buenos Aires: 2024/25 Zurich International Orchestra Series at Cadogan Hall
[…] Smetáček was chief conductor for 30 years, and later Jiří Bělohlávek was. Now that role is taken by Tomáš Brauner and he conducts a programme of Dvorak and Prokofiev. The visit from Turkey's leading the orchestra, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra must be regarded as a real highlight [I heard them live in Istanbul in 2015, see my review, and look forward to hearing them again]. Their newly appointed artistic director, Carlo Tenan conducts them in Schubert, Saint-Saens, Beethoven and 20th-century Turkish composer Ferit Tüzün (1929-1977).Other visitors include the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra in Sibelius, Mozart and Brahms and Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra of Colon Opera in an eclectic programme of Piazzolla, Wagner, Bizet and Tchaikovsky.Full details from the Cadogan Hall website.
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