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Perth Festival of the Arts: from Wallace and Gromit for brass band and The Magic Flute in Scots to the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and Tenebrae
In its 52nd year, Perth Festival of the Arts returns on 22 May to 1 June and on 8 June 2024 with a diverse programme of arts and culture. As ever, there is a strong classical music strand. Steven Mercurio conducts the Czech National Symphony Orchestra at Perth Concert Hall in a programme of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and Bruch's Violin Concerto with soloist Chloe Hanslip. European ensemble II Giardino d'Amore present their programme, The New 4 Seasons, a musical theatre experience with music by Vivaldi, Piazzola and Richter.The Scots Opera Project return to the festival with an innovative reinterpretation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. This ground-breaking production reimagines the classic within the confines of an asylum, performed in a Scots language translation. Whilst Scottish Opera will be presenting opera on a miniature scale with their Pop-Up performances. Principal Percussionist of English National Opera, Mick Doran, brings an irreverent, humorous, and moving show – An A-Z of Orchestral Triangle […]
2023-12-15 08:34:00
A remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza bring a lovely sense of dialogue to their celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon
[…] music in such wonderfully idiomatic performances, but also seeing how his approach compared and contrasted to that of his peers. The evening also gave a very welcome different slant to the manic musical celebration of Christmas, along with introducing a quiet sense of dialogue that is much needed.I do hope that Vache Baroque's Rossi 400 project will embolden other groups to perform Rossi's music.Vache Baroque: Amy Wood, Betty Makharinsky, Clara Kanter, Jonathan Darbourne, Bradley Smith, Mick Pritchard, Jolyon Loy, Tristan HambletonLa Vaghezza: Maya Kadish & Ignacio Ramal (violin), Gianluca Geremia (theorbo), Marco Crosetto (organ/harpsichord)With Kate Conway (viola da gamba), Kristiina Watt (theorbo/lute)Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogArctic saxophone: three imaginative & engaging new concertos from Ola Asdahl Rokkones, Arktisk Filharmoni & Per Kristian Skalstad - concert reviewSurrender to the gentle […]
2023-09-15 21:00:15
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2023-09-10 16:29:00
Extravagantly theatrical: Handel's Flavio revived by Bayreuth Baroque in the splendour of the 18th-century theatre
[…] albeit at the expense of overall pace.Guido and Emilia were treated entirely seriously as befits Handel's music for them. Vitige and Teodata were more equivocal, semi-seria characters, whilst Ugone and Lotario were more satirical, their reactions completely over the top. Flavio was a completely comic character, a young man governed by his loins. Cencic treatment was positively bawdy with Eirini Petraki as his Queen providing a perfect 'straight man' along with the Queen's personal dwarf, Mick Morris Mehnert, with whom she seemed to have a sexual liaison.Handel: Flavio - Monika Jägerová, Fabio Trümpy - Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival (Photo: Clemens Manser)Cencic was on superb form as Guido, going from joy at his nuptials to anger for his father to bitter confusion as he manages to kill his beloved's father. Cencic was powerfully expressive indeed in Guido's serious arias, singing with great style and never over-doing the ornament. Julia Lezhneva's Emilia […]
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