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American soprano, Professor of voice
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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024 at Howard Assembly RoomComposers & Poets Forum Showcase: A Leeds Songbook; Leeds Lieder Festival at Leeds MinsterReviewed 17 April 2024Young Artists Showcase: Leeds Lieder Festival at Howard Assembly RoomReviewed 19 April 2024First a programme of specially written new song and then a chance to shine in their chosen repertoire, and for us to experience some fine young voices and performers really stretching themselves.Leeds Lieder Festival certainly keeps its Young Artists busy. They arrived in Leeds on Sunday not only have they been taking part in masterclasses and a final showcase performance at Opera North's Howard Assembly Room on 19 April 2024 when each duo performed their own selection of songs, but on 17 April 2024 at Leeds Minster they presented this year's instalment of A Leeds Songbook.The Composers & Poets Forum Showcase at Leeds Minster on 17 April featured ten new songs by student composers collaborating […]
2024-04-14 20:10:47
Welcome to Classical Sunday at Song of the Day for Today. It’s a beautiful, sunny spring Sunda
2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No.2 in G major, op.44 (original version) [46'45]04 Piano Concerto No.3 in E-flat major, op.75 [16'07]Peter Donohoe- piano, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf BarshaiEMI CDC749940-2 [recorded August 1986 and July & August 1987; issued 1990][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Dorset, UKRecording engineers: Mike Clements and Mike Hatch; Producer: Andrew KeenerPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:01 - 02 Concert Fantasia op.56 [27'52]03 - 05 Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, op.23 [36'03]Peter Donohoe- piano, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf BarshaiEMI CDC749939-2 [recorded July & August 1989 and July 1988; issued 1990][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Dorset, UKRecording engineers: Mike Clements and Mike Hatch; Producer: Andrew KeenerRachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Borodin:01 Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paginini, op.43 ^ [23'33]02 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Waltz from 'Swan Lake, Act 1' [7'37]03 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: […]
2024-04-01 08:07:00
Moving intimacy and sense of communication: Bach's St Matthew Passion from the Academy of Ancient Music, music director Laurence Cummings and just eight singers
Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion - Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings at Barbican Hall (Photo: Academy of Ancient Music)Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion; Anna Dennis, Tim Mead, Nicholas Mulroy, George Humphreys, Mhairi Lawson, Magid El-Bushra, Paul Hopwood, Rodney Earl Clarke, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; Barbican HallReviewed 29 March 2024 (Good Friday)Just eight soloists and 28 instrumentalists create a sense of intimacy yet profound communication, filling the hall in a way that made the whole a moving experience.Some of Johann Sebastian Bach's masterworks from the 1730s and 1740s, such as the Mass in B minor and the Art of Fugue, not only have no apparent performance tradition from Bach's time but also leave us uncertain as to the exact performance forces that Bach envisaged. But an earlier masterwork, the St Matthew Passion, has a clear performance tradition from Bach's time, premiered in 1727, Bach performed it […]
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