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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.
[…] 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 Jacobs, Sasha Lurje, Daniel Kahn and Karsten Troyke. Dating from 2022 and commissioned by Yad Vashem (the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem) and the American Society for Yad Vashem, the work received its première on 5th November 2022 by the Kaunas State Orchestra and Kaunas State Choir under Constantine Orbelian in the Philharmonic Hall in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania after […]
2023-09-19 08:07:00
Bringing life to Glasgow's oldest building: the seventh Glasgow Cathedral Festival
[…] (1927), which won three Oscars at the first ever Academy Awards, will have a score from organist, composer and improvisor Thierry Escaich.There are lunchtime chamber-music recitals from flautist Matthew James Higham with pianist Hye Soo Kang, the Sacconi Quartet and pianist Emma Abbate, and organist Richard Gowers. Twighlight in the Crypt features Columbian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea and sound artist Alistair MacDonald for a performance integrating the human voice with avant-garde electronics with music by Katrin Klose, Robert Laidlow, Lisa Robertson and Alistair MacDonald.There are free tours of the historic building and cathedral’s master stonemason will give a talk explaining the ancient techniques used over the centuries in his fascinating craft, accompanied by a tour of the yard.Glasgow Cathedral opened in 1197 and is the oldest cathedral on mainland Scotland, though much of the present building dates from the 13th-century rebuilding. The cathedral is dedicated to St Mungo, whose tomb lies […]
2019-11-29 11:45:01
The curious history of the saxophone
The Darling Saxophone Four in the 1920s On Sunday 8 December, I will be talking at Conway Hall about the development of the saxophone, from its invention by Adolphe Sax, the importance of the work of Theobald Boehm and Hyacinthe Klosé, and its move from classical to jazz via ragtime, in my pre-concert talk at for Conway Hall Sunday Concerts. This is in advance of the concert by the Arcis Saxophon Quartett with music by Steve Reich, Dvorak, Bernstein, Barber and Gershwin.Full details from the Conway Hall website.
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2019-08-06 08:42:28
Classical Saxophone Study (Klose)
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