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composer (1875-1917)
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2021-11-06 09:49:35
Finding her own way: I chat to cellist Clare O'Connell about her innovative concert series in Berkhamsted, Behind the Mirror
Clare O'Connell performing at Light Night in the Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds, 2021 (Photo Tom Arber) There is much talk at the moment about going local; the importance of being involved in and supporting your local community. The music world has, however, been as guilty as any other field for its fondness for distant travel. Cellist Clare O'Connell has been well ahead of the game in respect to concentrating on the local community, and for over ten years she has been running a highly regarded concert series in her home town of Berkhamsted. And it isn't just another classical concert series, Behind the Mirror includes a strong element of contemporary music allied to innovative programming. For the series, Clare has commissioned many new works from composers such as Alex Mills, Leonardo Margutti, Luke Bedford, David Bruce, Freya Waley Cohen and Rubens Askenar, as well as experimenting with varying instrumental line-ups, making […]
2021-11-06 09:49:35
Finding her own way: I chat to cellist Clare O'Connell about her innovative concert series in Berkhamsted, Behind the Mirror
Clare O'Connell performing at Light Night in the Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds, 2021 (Photo Tom Arber) There is much talk at the moment about going local; the importance of being involved in and supporting your local community. The music world has, however, been as guilty as any other field for its fondness for distant travel. Cellist Clare O'Connell has been well ahead of the game in respect to concentrating on the local community, and for over ten years she has been running a highly regarded concert series in her home town of Berkhamsted. And it isn't just another classical concert series, Behind the Mirror includes a strong element of contemporary music allied to innovative programming. For the series, Clare has commissioned many new works from composers such as Alex Mills, Leonardo Margutti, Luke Bedford, David Bruce, Freya Waley Cohen and Rubens Askenar, as well as experimenting with varying instrumental line-ups, making […]
2021-04-25 09:57:53
A Life On-Line: debut in Bournemouth, early English at St Martin's, Bach's Pergolesi and John Eliot Gardiner on Monteverdi
[…] eye opening and a must listen for anyone fascinated by this period [BBC Radio 3] It also meant that I had time to catch up with John Eliot Gardiner's terrific podcast Monteverdi and his Constellation. In eight 45 minute episodes, Gardiner explores Monteverdi's life and music from L'Orfeo in the first episode to L'Incoronazione di Poppea in the last, and sets it in context. But this context is important. In 1604, Monteverdi met Peter Paul Rubens and Galileo in Mantua (where the two were angling for jobs with the Duke of Mantua). What did they talk about? Gardiner's fascinating premise was to put Monteverdi into the context of the revolutions happening in the arts and sciences created by Monteverdi's contemporaries, Shakespeare, Carravagio, Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, Galileo, Keppler. In each episode, Gardiner examines a thread in these links, puts some of Monteverdi's music under the microscope and adds biographical background. If […]
2020-08-09 13:13:57
A Life On-Line: Elektra from Salzburg, Alceste from Munich, Russian song from Thomas Humphreys
[…] free but the artists have started a crowdfunder for their first album together, exploring lesser known works for contralto and commissioning a new song from Alex Mills. Podcasts continue coming thick and fast. One fascinating new one comes from Sir John Eliot Gardiner who is going to be considering Monteverdi and his circle, arguing Monteverdi to be seen as a significant ‘star’ in a constellation of innovative talent that also included Galileo, Rubens, Caravaggio, Kepler, Shakespeare and Francis Bacon. The podcast is available on Libsyn. Over at St John's Smith Square, Jon Jacob, Richard Heason (the hall's director) and Owain Park (director of the Gesualdo Six) talked about the new series of test events for socially distanced audiences [AudioBoom]. And you can also catch the first event, a recital from the Gesualdo Six [YouTube] Longborough Opera's planned 2020 production of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen was celebrated […]
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