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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] du um Schoenheit was concentrated and meaningful, really about the text.Biqing Zhang (soprano) and Yongqiu Yuan (piano) began with Richard Strauss and then moved to Zhang's native China. In Strauss' Schlagenherzen, Zhang brought real charm and character to the song, really filling the stage with her delightful presence. Zhou Yi's Chaitoufeng felt quite French in style, flowing and touching with an elaborately ornamented vocal line. Finally, Thomas McGowan (baritone) and Benjamin Collyer (piano) in Schubert and Warlock. McGowan brought lovely dark tone to Schubert's Nachtstück, concentrated and thoughtful, he really inhabited the song. Then a lovely swaggering account of Peter Warlock's Yarmouth Fair, with McGowan relishing the story telling.This was an impressive 90 minutes. Not every performer felt a natural on the recital stage, and you feel that some will inhabit the operatic stage quite naturally, but each performing duo really brought something of interest. Some of the repertoire choices felt a […]
2024-04-03 06:35:00
A wondrous snapshot of British singing: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance
[…] Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, as well as Margaret Balfour in the Angel's Farewell from Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius conducted by the composer.The remainder are song repertoire that veers between Victorian charm and the more contemporary, Isobel Baillie in the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria, Elsie Suddaby in Somervell's Shepherd's Cradle Song, Muriel Brunskill in Bantock's Serenade, Astra Desmond in the traditional Mull Fisher's Love Song, Mary Jarred in Parry's England, Walter Widdop in Woodforde-Finden's A Request, Parry Jones in Warlock's There is a lady sweet and kind, Heddle Nash in Linden Lea, Norman Allin in Silent Noon, and Keith Falkner in Butterworth's Is my team ploughing.Some tracks are real highlights, demonstrating just why that particular singer was notable. The opening track might only be Gounod's take on Bach but Isobel Baillie is never louder than lovely and the purity of her upper register (notable for the lack of vibrato) demonstrate why she got the […]
2024-01-29 10:42:00
Stanford, Holst and an RVW premiere: the 17th English Music Festival at Dorchester Abbey
[…] Howells, Havergal Brian and Holst's Hymns from the Rig Veda, plus concerts from the Flutes and Frets Duo, pianists Philip Leslie and Paul Guinery, Excalibur Voices, Shiry Rashkovsky (viola) and Richard Uttley (piano), and Ensemble Kopernicus.The weekend ends with a concert from the strings of the English Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Andrews, in a mixed programme the beings with Howells' Serenade and ends with Rawsthorne's Light Music for Strings and along the way fits in classics like Warlock's Capriol Suite and rarities like Bliss' Two Contrasts.Full details from the English Music Festival's website.
2023-12-22 00:00:00
Vaughan Williams Christmas Music, Christmas Baroque, Orchestral Christmas & On Chritmas Night (Richard Hickox, Marc Taddei, Charles Gerhardt & Andrew Nethsingha)
[…] flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue, engineer and producer- no information provided. No booklet provided even with the CD release.On Christmas Night:01 John Rutter: What sweeter music02 Trad.: Noël nouvelet03 James Burton: Balulalow04 William Mathias: A babe is born, op.5505 Harold Darke: In the bleak mid-winter06 Trad.: Ding! dong! merrily on high07 Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the apple tree08 Trad.: I saw three ships09 Richard Rodney Bennett: Out of your sleep10 Peter Warlock: Benedicamus Domino11 John Joubert: There is no rose12 Trad.: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day13 Matthew Martin: Adam lay ybounden14 Matheo Flecha the Elder: Riu, riu, chiu15 Trad.: O little town of Bethlehem16 Trad.: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen17 Christopher Robinson: Make we joy18 Felix Mendelssohn: Hark! the herald angels sing19 John Tavener: The Lamb20 Michael Finnissy: Telling21 Kenneth Leighton: Coventry Carol22 Trad.: On Christmas night23 Franz Gruber: Silent night24 John Francis Wade: O […]
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