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2024-04-24 08:20:00
The 13th Lewes Chamber Music Festival takes place from 6 to 8 June 2024 with artistic director Beatrice Philips bringing together 18 of today's most exciting chamber-musicians and soloists to explore the musical ties between Europe and America through celebrating the 150th birthdays of Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, including Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Ode to Napoleon with actor Samuel West, and rare chamber versions of larger scale works by Richard Strauss and Mahler.The weekend opens with early piano quartets by Mahler and Richard Strauss along with music by Elliott Carter and Anton Webern's quintet arrangement of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No.1, and there is more Schoenberg with a late-night performance of Verklärte Nacht. And the festival will include more Schoenberg along with performances of music by Berg, Zemlinsky, Schulhoff, Korngold, Hindemith, Brahms, Ives, Amy Beach and Gershwin.A wonderfully ambitious gala concert features Guido Martin-Brandis' arrangement of the magical closing scenes from […]
2024-03-08 17:19:30
If you've been following the classical music world, you've likely heard the buzz about Sterling Elliott, the stunningly talented young cellist taking stages by storm. Only in his early 20s, he has already achieved what most musicians only dream of—solo performances with top orchestras like the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra...
2024-03-04 07:33:00
Musical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
[…] "it isn't neo-anything: it's pure Stravinsky, and Russian Stravinsky, the same person who wrote The Rite of Spring". I have to confess that rather too often the opera's 18th-century setting and this idea of a neo-classical work, perhaps even a pastiche, seem something of a straight-jacket for productions. Glyndebourne's iconic Hockney-designed version is wonderful but is only one approach.Stravinsky: The Rake's Progess - Act One, scene oneFrederick Jones, Nazan Fikret, David Horton, Jerome Knox, Trevor Elliott Bowes - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith)Director Polly Graham (artistic director of Longborough Festival) and designer April Dalton deliberately approach the work from a different direction, which seems to have arisen from a close reading of Auden and Kallman's text. The opening scene was a May Day celebration, albeit one so over-designed that it might have been from schlock horror film, and with the Punch and Judy theatre, there seemed deliberate, if […]
2024-02-06 07:24:00
Late romantic at Wigmore Hall: Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree in York Bowen and Rebecca Clarke
York Bowen by Elliott & Fry, bromide print (NPG x86430, © National Portrait Gallery, London)Enescu, Fauré, Kreisler, Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata, York Bowen: Viola Sonata No. 1; Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree; Wigmore Hall3 February 2024Youthful muscularity, engaging manner and sweetly singing tone in Timothy Ridout's exploration of early 20th century music for viola with a focus on those inspired by Lionel TertisFollowing on from Simon Callaghan's lunchtime concert performing Cyril Scott [see my review], the evening concert at Wigmore Hall on 3 February 2024 featured viola player Timothy Ridout and pianist Frank Dupree in a programme inspired by viola player Lionel Tertis that featured York Bowen's Viola Sonata no. 1 and Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata along with music by Enescu, Fauré and Fritz Kreisler.Born the same year as Pablo Casals (1876), Lionel Tertis devoted his life to opening composers' and performers' eyes to the viola as a solo instrument. A wide range of […]
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