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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 again […]
2023-11-17 05:00:00
Bainbridge, Lloyd, Simpson, Vaughan Williams, Welsh Favourites & Tuba Concertos (Horenstein, Penny, Tilson Thomas et al)
[…] 10 'November Journeys' * [30'11]Abbey Brass conducted by Paul Drayton and Tony Hindley *FS Records FSR201 [recorded June 2019 to February 2020; issued 2020][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St Michael’s Church, Newquay, UKRecording engineer and Producer: Francis ShepherdRobert Simpson (1921-1997):01 - 02 Symphony No. 3 (1962) * [30'54]03 - 07 Clarinet Quintet (1968) ^ [34'23]London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jascha Horenstein *; Bernard Walton- clarinet and The Aeolian String Quartet (Sydney Humphreys and Raymond Keenlyside- violins, Margaret Major- viola and Derek Simpson- cello) ^NMC NMCD109 [recorded June 1970* and August 1979^ for Unicorn-Kanchana; this NMC release 2006] [digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Barking Assembly Hall* and Christ Church Chelsea^, LondonRecording engineer: Bob Auger; Producers: Robert Simpson and Antony Hodgson*Welsh Classical Favourites:01 Grace Williams (1906-1977): Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes [10'34]02 Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941): Solemn Melody [3'43]03 Gareth Walters (1928-): Overture. Primavera […]
2023-10-31 07:21:00
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World - violinist Fenella Humphreys introduces her programme of important but neglected figures of 20th century music
Leah Broad & Fenella Humphreys (Photo: Alejandro Tamagno)On Sunday 5 November 2023, violinist Fenella Humphreys joins forces with author Leah Broad and pianist Nicola Eimer at Milton Court Concert Hall to explore some of the most important but neglected figures of 20th century music. Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World features music by Doreen Carwithen, one of Britain’s first women film composers, Rebecca Clarke, acclaimed for her musical experimentation, Dorothy Howell, a prodigy who shot to fame at the Proms, and Ethel Smyth, a highly versatile composer of exceptional quality.Here, Fenella Humphreys explores her introduction to the composers and their music.When I was about eight or nine years old I was given Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne to learn. It was a genuine life-changer - I hadn’t realised until then just how music could make you feel, and it definitely made me want to become a musician.It was only years later that […]
2023-10-18 06:59:00
Tips for musicians setting up a music festival: Shiry Rashkovsky, founder of Up Close and Musical, reflects on festival creation
Shiry Rashkovsky & violinist Fenella Humphreys at Up Close and Musical in 2022Viola-player Shiry Rashkovsky's Up Close and Musical festival returned to the Fidelio Café this month, opening with mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer, pianist Ben Dawson and Trio Klein in a storm-themed programme of music by living, and mainly women, composers [see my review] and ends tonight, 18 October 2023, with soprano & composer Héloïse Werner, multi-instrumentalist Shri Sriram and cellist Max Baillie in Best of October House Records with music by Love Ssega, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Jonathan Cole, and Max Baillie [further details]. Shiry founded Up Close and Musical in 2020 to help demystify the world of classical music, combining intimate performances, artist-curated programmes, and artist interviews, along with food and drink [read my 2021 interview with Shiry].In this article, Shiry reflects on the whole process of festival creation.I founded Up Close and Musical at Fidelio Café because I wanted to give audiences a chance not only to […]
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