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2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
The Gewandhaus at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig-Mitte with the Mendebrunnen at night (2016)(Photo: Wikimedia - By Ichwarsnur - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0) Come 2025, the Leipzig Gewandhaus will be staging a major international festival in honour of Dimitri Shostakovich marking the 50th anniversary of his deathA frequent visitor to Germany attending Ring cycles here, there and everywhere, Tony Cooper recently enjoyed a short break in Leipzig taking in a concert by the Gewandhausorchester conducted by Alan Gilbert featuring Shostakovich’s 10th symphony whilst also enjoying a rare performance of Thea Musgrave’s opera, Mary, Queen of Scots. With so much musical history and knowledge wrapped up in Leipzig’s cultural portfolio, Tony also took adventurous steps by way of trekking the Leipzig Music Trail stopping off to visit the Bach-Archiv, conveniently situated opposite St Thomas’ Church and the Mendelssohn House Museum not forgetting, of course, the Schumann House while soaking up the city’s illustrious […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-03-10 17:57:05
The American Cantor Charles Heller, in an anthology... The post Solti in Bayreuth: Where do I go to shul on Friday night? appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-06-30 07:12:25
Premiere of James MacMillan's Mass of St Edward the Confessor at Westminster Abbey as part of celebrations for the Feast of St Peter
Yesterday (29 June 2022) was the Feast of St Peter, Apostle and Martyr. St Peter is also the Patron of Westminster Abbey and so there was a rather special sung Eucharist at the Abbey. The preacher was the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster and James O'Donnell directed Westminster Abbey Choir. The music at the service include the world premiere of James MacMillan's Mass of St Edward the Confessor, and Palestrina's Tu es Petrus, with MacMillan's Toccata as the closing voluntary. I was lucky enough to be seated in the historic Quire [see my photo on Instagram] so had a perfect sight and sound of a very special service.James MacMillan's mass is, I think, his seventh setting of the ordinary, the first being a Missa Brevis written when he was just sixteen. There are at least two congregational settings, but perhaps the best known setting is the wonderful, and complex, Mass (for choir […]
Serenade (Western Classical Music in India)
2022-06-21 23:48:53
Bach’s other Passion, the earlier
elebrating the end of Christ’s life in his two extant Passions this is his first major choral work for Leipzig, Bach being only recently employed there as Cantor. The two existing Passions distil the same story with Jesus rising from the dead on Easter Sunday morning. But before this is the gruelling tale of the Passion ending with the crucifixion of Christ on the cross along with two thieves. Bach sets chapters 26 and 27 from Matthew’s and 18 and 19 […] The post appeared first on Serenade.
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