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2021-05-14 12:51:35
A new trombone concerto, a focus on Shostakovich and his pupil Galina Ustvolskaya, Minute Masterpieces and more: Opera North's Kirklees Concert Season
[…] Richard Watkins, who first performed the work in 1983 with Sir Peter Pears. Also in the programme is Mark-Anthony Turnage's Drowned inspired by a terrifying account of death in the Atlantic written by William Golding, alongside Elgar's Enigma Variations. Sian Edwards and pianist Joanna MacGregor join the orchestra for a piano-inspired concert, Gershwin's Piano Concerto alongside Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's piano masterpiece Pictures at an Exhibition. And the piano remains a theme with pianist Howard Shelly in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in an all-Beethoven concert re-scheduled from 2020. There is also the annual Christmas concert featuring the orchestra and chorus plus the company's youth ensembles. Whilst a young Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti, principal guest conductor of Orchestra della Toscana, makes his company debut with a programme of Strauss waltzes for New Year's Eve. Opera North's Minute Masterpieces competition is open to to emerging composers from all backgrounds and traditions, […]
2021-01-24 10:59:43
A Life On-Line: Mad King in the Netherlands, Mozart & Boulogne in Perth, Allegri in Sistine Chapel
[…] harpsichord Laurence Lyndon Jones in a lovely programme of theatre music by Purcell, Blow and William Croft, interweaved with instrumental works by Sammartini and Vivaldi. [Eboracum Baroque] We also managed to catch up on Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's December concert which is still available on-line. Petrenko and the orchestra gave us two, very different, 20th century orchestral showpieces, Ginastera's Variaciones Concertantes and Rhodion Shchedrin's Carmen Suite, and in between was Respighi's luscious Shelly setting, Il tramonto with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson. Ginastera's 1953 work incorporates Argentinian folk elements but sublimated into Ginastera's style and the result is full of lovely moments for different parts of the orchestra, giving everyone a chance to shine and they certainly did here. The Respighi proved a lovely lush contrast, complex but without the occasional sharp edges of Ginastera. Finally Shchedrin's re-working of Bizet; originally made for a ballet for Shchedrin's dancer wife, […]
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2020-08-13 21:01:59
Is Singing Together During COVID Safe?
“Singing in a room for an extended period of time, in close contact with lots of people and no ventilation — that’s a recipe for disaster,” says Shelly Miller, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Along with Jelena Srebric at the University of Maryland, Miller is leading a six-month research project looking at […]
2020-02-25 08:25:56
The cello sonata from early Beethoven to Shostakovich: Anglo-French duo Lydia Shelley & Nicolas Stavy at Conway Hall
[…] 1790 and made improvements to the cello itself). Brahms hesitated over his sonata, removed a movement and re-wrote, only releasing it in 1865. Shelley brought a deeply soulful feeling to the lyrical opening movement, with both performers capturing its underlying sense of melancholy. The Minuet was pointed and elegant, yet with surges of drama and with a trio which almost swung like a waltz. The finale started out as a robust fugue, with Stavy and Shelly making a powerful partnership, but soon the music is breaking the bounds of the genre.Brahms' sonata both looks forward, exploring what a Romantic cello sonata might be, and back, with glances both at Mozart or Schubert in the Minuet and a quotation from Bach in the finale. Shostakovich's Cello Sonata of 1934 is similarly Janus like, its sense of nostalgic resonance with a bygone age perhaps arising because the sonata was written for Shostakovich […]