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2024-03-07 07:39:00
Danza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful elan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun
[…] these treasures.Madeleine Dring (1923-1977) - Danza Gaya (1964)Madeleine Dring - Valse française (pub. 1980)Madeleine Dring - Italian dance (1960)Madeleine Dring - Caribbean dance (1959)Dorothy Howell (1898-1982) - Recuerdos Preciosos (1934?)Pamela Harrison (1915-1990) - Dance Little Lady for piano duet (1976)Madeleine Dring - Sonata for two pianos (1951)Madeleine Dring - Three for TwoMadeleine Dring - TarantelleMadeleine Dring - Four DuetsDorothy Howell - MazurkaDorothy Howell - SpindriftMadeleine Dring - Three Fantastic Variations on Lilliburlero Simon Callaghan (piano)Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano)Recorded at Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, UK 29-31 August 2023LYRITA SRCD 433 4 1CD [73:39]Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogIan Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar - concert reviewSix Concerts avec plusieurs instruments: London Handel Players at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewMusical strengths, visual confusion & two […]
2022-04-12 07:08:30
Historical stagecraft & modern sensibilities: a powerful Tamerlano from Cambridge Handel Opera Company
Handel: Tamerlano - James Laing, Leila Zanette, Christopher Turner, Caroline Taylor - Cambridge Handel Opera Company (Photo: Jean-Luc Benazet) Handel: Tamerlano - James Laing, Christopher Turner, Thalie Knights, Caroline Taylor, Leila Zanette, director: Dionysios Kyropoulos, conductor Julian Perkins; Cambridge Handel Opera Company at The Leys9 April 2022 (★★★★½) Cambridge Handel Opera Company (CHOC) debuted in 2018 with Handel's Rodelinda (but the company inherited the mantle of Cambridge Handel Opera Group which ran from 1985 to 2013). CHOC's follow up production was intended to be Handel's Tamerlano in 2020, but events got in the way and the production finally debuted last week at the Great Hall, The Leys, Cambridge (seen 9 April 2022). The opera was directed by Dionysios Kyropoulos, conducted by Julian Perkins (CHOC's artistic director) and designed by Rachel Szmukler. James Laing was Tamerlano and Christopher Turner was Bajazet with Caroline Taylor as Asteria, Thalie Knights as Andronico, Leila Zanette […]
2022-02-05 11:03:14
Not an additional ornament: as he prepares to direct Handel's 'Tamerlano', Dionysios Kyropoulos discusses bringing historical stagecraft to the modern stage
[…] repetition, thus enabling the audience to get lost in the drama and not break away to extract the meaning of the words. Handel's Green Room features online discussions with director Dionysios Kyropoulos, counter-tenors Lawrence Zazzo and James Laing, theorbo player James Akers and musical director Julian Perkins on 16 February, 2 & 16 March 2022, full details from the website. Cambridge Handel Opera Company's production of Handel's Tamerlano is at the Great Hall, The Leys, The Fen Causeway, Cambridge CB2 7AD - 5, 6, 8, 9 April 2022. There is a study afternoon on 9 April 2022 at the Recital Room, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, CB3 9DP. Full details from the company's website.
2021-11-05 13:32:20
Going local: an orchestra like no-other, Brixton Chamber Orchestra has big plans
Matthew O’Keeffe - Conductor, photographed at Leys Court, Angell Town Estate by Michael WharleyBorn and raised in Brixton, Matthew is the founder, director and conductor of Brixton Chamber Orchestra. There for the first gig to a crowd of 20 in 2018, this summer he conducted performances for audiences totalling more than 800. Previously part of a vocal group signed to Mercury Records, he’s no mean singer to boot, and on occasion will step behind the mic for a Sinatra standard. My local orchestra, the Brixton Chamber Orchestra (BCO) has had a busy time of it in the last year. Under founder and artistic director Matthew O'Keeffe, the orchestra gave 24 performances, many of them outdoors. That is was able to do so was thanks to the local support the orchestra has and to thank supporters, as well as to launch a formal supporters scheme, the orchestra held and event at […]
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