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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] each song, the poet read their words to give us more of an idea of content.City Turned Into a Song by Jan Pospisil (music) and Nigel Karl Stone (words), performed by Anton Kirchhoff (baritone) and Jou-an Chen (piano), was lyrical and tonal, beginning unaccompanied with Kirchhoff showing a fine lyric baritone. With a faint air of melancholy, it alternated between the more urgent and rather interior, all with a little hint of music theatre. The Poet by Kinna Whitehead (music) and Ian Parks (words), performed by Cerys MacAllister (soprano) and André Bertoncini (piano), featured MacAllister almost on a monotone, rather confiding, emotion recalled in quietness, with a rhythmic accompaniment that featured the pianist knocking, to striking if distracting effect.She Walks the Blue and Yellow Lands by Glen Downie (music) and Christ Cambell (words), performed by Deirunas Jasiulionis (tenor) and Fang-Lin Liu (piano), had vivid, short sharp vocal phrases and spiky piano; as the song […]
2024-04-10 09:31:00
Dramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court
[…] more in BerlinA brilliant programme: Sibelius, Prokofiev & Saariaho with Jan Lisiecki, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Tarmo Peltokoski - concert reviewRevisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: director Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns with conductor Philippe Jordan - opera reviewYoung Lovers: Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton in an entrancing evening at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewLush romanticism was a long way away: an immersive contemporary interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from Figure - music theatre reviewWriting Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys - interviewHome
2024-04-09 12:45:00
A lovely evocation of stillness and calm: Alastair Penman's Quietude on his Meadowbank Music label
[…] more in BerlinA brilliant programme: Sibelius, Prokofiev & Saariaho with Jan Lisiecki, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Tarmo Peltokoski - concert reviewRevisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: director Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns with conductor Philippe Jordan - opera reviewYoung Lovers: Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton in an entrancing evening at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewLush romanticism was a long way away: an immersive contemporary interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from Figure - music theatre reviewWriting Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys - interviewHome
2024-04-06 11:15:00
Bizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances
[…] more in BerlinA brilliant programme: Sibelius, Prokofiev & Saariaho with Jan Lisiecki, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Tarmo Peltokoski - concert reviewRevisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: director Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns with conductor Philippe Jordan - opera reviewYoung Lovers: Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton in an entrancing evening at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewLush romanticism was a long way away: an immersive contemporary interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from Figure - music theatre reviewWriting Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys - interviewTwo hundred years of music for the horn: Ben Goldscheider in Beethoven, Bowen, Widmann and Watkins - concert reviewHome
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