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Canadian organist, composer, conductor
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2024-04-11 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech listens to oboe concertos by eighteenth century German composer Ludwig August Lebrun. 'Nancy Ambrose King's flawless technique allows the music to flow with a strong sense of drama ...'
2023-12-22 05:00:43
Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song — Bill Frisell and Herlin Riley join the trumpeter for a heavenly match
Tempi are unhurried and textures nuanced in a collaboration with the guitarist and drummer
2023-09-22 08:44:00
Drawing us into Handel's magical world: Amadigi di Gaula from the English Concert with Tim Mead, Mary Bevan, Hilary Cronin, Hugh Cutting
[…] combining passion with a superbly vibrant line, supported by lovely richness in the orchestra. Yet he comes back for more, and the character's final aria, when Oriana says she loves him because she believes him to be Amadigi, is one of unalloyed joy.There is one further, tiny character, the Deus ex Machina of Orgando who appears at the last possible moment and rights everything. Here, sung with poise and not a little humour by Rachel Ambrose Evans.There were plenty of superb individual instrumental contributions, oboist Emma Black shone in the many fine obbligato moments (Handel must surely have had a fine oboist he wished to show off) with bassoonist Niels Collins Coppalle also having moments to shine. Handel's use of trumpet was restrained, but when he did use it then we had great fun and Mark Bennett did too. And throughout there was fine continue from Joseph Crouch (cello), Sergio […]
2023-05-25 12:00:55
Cloak and dagger
The opera took place on an actual boat: the Lightship Ambrose in the South Street Seaport.
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