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2021-06-03 06:35:07
Cheltenham Music Festival returns for 2021 with 21 world premieres and free stage concerts
The Cheltenham Music Festival is returning to live music with a festival from 2 to 11 July 2021 which includes 21 world premieres and a number of free stage concerts. Large-scale concerts include Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and Martyn Brabbins and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Other performers include the Carice Singers, pianist Steven Osborne, mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, cellist Matthew Barley, pianist Ivana Gavric, pianist Imogen Cooper, La Serenissima, saxophonist Jess Gillam, the Albion Quartet and 12 Ensemble. There will be world premieres of Matthew Whittall's new choral settings of Robert Louis Stevenson's Songs of Travel, Luke Styles' new work performed alongside Britten's Canticles, plus premieres of music by Lillie Harris, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Jonathan Woolgar, Sarah Nicolls and Maja Bugge, and a UK premiere from Alex Freeman. The Cheltenham Composer Academy returns this year from 5-9 July. The scheme supports early-career composers (aged 18+), offering them […]
2019-12-18 10:54:20
Rating: 0 ‘On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…’ goes the familiar festive song. Lovely, but there are only so many times you can serve partridge and pear casserole for dinner. And have you ever tried wrapping eight milk maids? When it comes to gift ideas, we’d suggest looking elsewhere. Such as, say, good music and wine. These old-timers of the gift list are always there for a reason – offering huge variety, they can be relied upon to raise a smile. And […]
2019-11-13 09:28:25
[…] Nige – that’s part of the magic. The 20 Greatest Violinists of all time Martin Fröst - clarinettist Among the many groundbreaking projects the Swedish clarinettist has dreamt up through the years, 2015’s Dollhouse is perhaps his most arresting. Taking on the roles of player, conductor, soloist and actor, Fröst used lighting and props to create a visual feast of a journey for his audiences. Classical-music's rule breakers Matthew Barley - cellist In 2013, Barley travelled ‘Around Britten’ to celebrate the composer’s centenary. But this was no ordinary tour. Barley scoured the country for some extraordinary venues including a cave, a lighthouse and a ruined castle. The concert included improvisations, electronics, plus animations to accompany Britten’s Third Cello Suite. Top 20 Britten recordings Aurora Orchestra Throwing caution to the wind in 2017, the Aurora Orchestra decided to start performing selected works […]
2019-11-09 08:36:55
Bringing to the community something which it would not otherwise see: I chat to festival director Anthony Wilkinson about the Wimbledon International Music Festival
Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt who make a number of appearances at this years Wimbledon International Music Festival The Wimbledon International Music Festival opens today, 9 November 2019; three weeks of music making and events under the theme of 'Music Mathematics Architecture'. This year's festival is the eleventh and I recently met up with festival director Anthony Wilkinson to chat about the festival's achievements, this year's highlights and future plans. The festival is notable for the variety and imagination of Anthony's programming, alongside standards such as Haydn's Creation (which opens the festival), and the Philharmonia Orchestra in Bach, Bartók and Mozart (which closes it) there are programmes such as cellist Matthew Barley joining with Indian musicians, and a number of programmes from the ever imaginative Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt.Anthony comments that each year he finds the more imaginative programmes, the ones which bring the most letters, are often the ones where […]
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