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2024-02-26 14:02:00
A Vast Obscurity: SongEasel bringings song celebrations to South East London including Gabriel Fauré's centenary
From April to June 2024, Jocelyn Freeman's SongEasel is celebrating a whole clutch of anniversaries in a series of concerts across South East London featuring performers including Roderick Williams, Mark Padmore and Elin Manahan Thomas. Spreading her net widely, a delighting in discovering that the word 'obscurity' can mean a collective noun for a group of poets, pianist Jocelyn Freeman's series A Vast Obscurity brings together the 460th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death and 65th birthday of Dr. Joseph Spence, plus Gabriel Fauré's centenary.Things commence on 11 April at St. George the Martyr, Borough with baritone Roderick Williams, pianist Iain Burnside and double bass player Leon Bosch in The Land of Lost Content with music by Butterworth, Burleigh, Clarke, Beach, and McLachlan. Gabriel Fauré's centenary is celebrated with a pair of concerts, the 1893 version of the Requiem with Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Malachy Frame (baritone) and The Corbett Consort at St Mark's Church, Kennington on 11 May, then Gwilym […]
2024-02-13 09:12:00
Workshops, Welsh song for families, Cleveland Watkiss, Mark Padmore, Hera Hyesang Park - the Manchester Song Festival 2024
Manchester Song FestivalThe 2024 Manchester Song Festival is at Stoller Hall from 1 to 3 March 2024 with a lively weekend of concerts, workshops and family events. Performances begin with jazz singer Cleveland Watkiss, with his distinctive blend of improvisation/counterpoint harmony, electronics, breakbeat loops and basslines (all live and from his mouth), in VocalSuite, described as 'elusive acapella vocal improvisation performance that uses the atmosphere of venue, mood and interactivity of audience to present a performance of the moment'.The following evening, tenor Mark Padmore will be performing Schumann, Frank Bridge, Michael Tippett, Rebecca Clarke and Tansy Davies, and the festival ends with a recital from Korean opera singer Hera Hyesang Park and pianist Bretton Brown in a mixture of Korean art songs and music by Samuel Barber, Alma Mahler, Respighi, Rossini, Schubert, Caplet, Cecilia Livingston, Thomas Dunhill and Errollyn Wallen.There is also a chance to catch vocal students from Chetham's School of Music in […]
2023-11-13 07:42:00
Plenty of food for thought & some terrific singing: Oliver Mears' staging of Handel's Jephtha at the Royal Opera with a towering performance from Allan Clayton in the title role
[…] at the London Handel Festival, James Gilchrist with The Sixteen, Nick Pritchard with the Academy of Ancient Music at the London Festival of Baroque Music, Allan Clayton with Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the BBC Proms. But I have seen only been two significant stagings of the work, Frederic Wake-Walker's highly abstract one at the Buxton Festival in 2012 with James Gilchrist [see my review], and Katie Mitchell's highly realistic one which was widely shared with Mark Padmore in the title role [see my review of WNO's 2012 revival with Robert Murray]. These two took highly contrasting routes to solving the work's dramatic problems, because make no bones about it, staging a Handel oratorio is a challenge. Handel's imagination was a dramatic one, whatever he was writing, but writing oratorio meant that he no longer needed to worry about pesky dramatic conventions. His oratorios often compress the drama, strip the linking dialogue […]
2023-10-28 07:22:00
Exploring his musical roots: conductor Duncan Ward chats about his jazz-inspired, Eastern European & French music coming up with the London Symphony Orchestra
[…] with the same team, and the contrast to flying in and out.With his orchestra in the Netherlands, they rehearse for three days and then usually give four concerts. The orchestra is flexible, performing the whole spectrum from Rameau to world premieres, and they play for some opera with Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle in the 2024/25 season. During the 2023/24 season, they will be performing Strauss' Alpine Symphony, Holst's The Planets and Britten's Our Hunting Fathers with Mark Padmore, Duncan also works with period instrument ensembles, and he comments that if musicians are keen to create that sound-world, then it is always a joy. It is not the same as performing the repertoire on modern instruments, but you can get close so that with strings you think about the Left Hand and the bow technique. He takes particular joy in working with period instrument groups adapting their instruments to newer repertoire. He worked on […]
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