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2024-01-05 08:28:00
The Dartington International Summer School Foundation creates new Music Summer School & Festival at Gresham's School in Norfolk
The chapel at Gresham's SchoolWith the collapse of the Summer School at Dartington, the Dartington International Summer School Foundation, a charity which was supported the Summer School since 1976, has created a new incarnation in Norfolk.The Music Summer School and Festival will run at Gresham's School in Norfolk from 27 July to 10 August 2024 with a wide range of participatory courses along with a full programme of concerts, talks and events. Courses include choral singing and vocal music; orchestras and ensembles; individual instrumental and vocal classes and workshops; medieval, renaissance and baroque ensembles; jazz and improvisation; wind band and string ensemble; chamber music; and composition.Conductor Andrew Griffiths will be working on Bach's St John Passion, and conductor Jane Glover works in Mozart's Requiem. There will be courses directed by ensembles Stile Antico and the Brook Street Band, harpsichordists Steven Devine and Skip Sempé, composers Rolf Hind and Stephen Montague, tenor James Gilchrist, pianist Anna Tilbrook, […]
2024-01-01 11:16:00
A time to look back
[…] and conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy, and the Stoller Hall, hear the orchestra in Mozart and catch up with the RNCM. And in Leeds we caught Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Puccini's Tosca and La Rondine, and the Masque of Might at Opera North, and caught up with composer Jasdeep Singh Degun.Interviews in 2023 included Cameron Menzies of Northern Ireland Opera, film composer Debbie Wiseman, composer Bushra El-Turk, conductor Francesco Cilluffo, and an 80th birthday interview with Stephen Montague. We chatted to two LGBT singers, Reginald Mobley and Elgan Llyr Thomas, had a bit of a Canadian theme with interviews with composer Margaret Maria, baritone Etienne Dupuis, and conductor Alexander Shelley.Wishing you all a Happy New Year
2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
[…] Tooting, LondonRecording engineer: Sean Lewis; Producer: Arne-Peter RognanDan Godfrey Encores:01 Ferdinand Hérold: Zampa - Overture [8'44]02 Byron Brooke (reconstructed R Corp): Gee Whizz! [4'09]03 Percy Whitlock: Carillon for Organ and Orchestra * [5'08]04 Ethel Smyth: The Boatswain's Mate - Overture [6'46]05 Howard Flynn: Clatter of the Clogs. A Novelty Fox-Trot [3'02]06 Landon Ronald: In an Eastern Garden. No.2 from 'The Garden of Allah' [4'38]07 Armstrong Gibbs (ed. M Pilkington): The Betrothal Ballet Music, op.34 10'40]08 Montague Birch: Dance of the Nymphs [3'56]09 Ina Boyle: The Magic Harp ^ [9'16]10 Ludwig Pleier: Karlsbad's Dolls' Dance. Characteristic Piece [3'35]11 Rutland Boughton: The Immortal Hour. Love Duet for Orchestra [6'06]12 Montague Birch: Intermezzo (Pizzicati) [4'33]13 Cecil White (reconstructed M Riley): A Sierra Melody [3'36]Malcolm Riley- organ*, Eluned Pierce- harp^, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ronald CorpDutton Epoch CDLX7276 [recorded July 2011; issued 2011][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: […]
2022-07-14 08:00:17
Interior life: Malcolm Martineau and friends in the complete songs of Henri Duparc
The Complete Songs of Duparc: Sarah Connolly, Nicky Spence, Huw Montague Rendall, William Thomas, Malcolm Martineau; Signum ClassicsReviewed 13 July 2022 (★★★★★)Henri Duparc's 16 surviving songs in performances which bring out the sense of the composer's interior life, as well as combining profoundly expressive singing with Martineau's supportive and wide-ranging piano In August last year (2021) I chatted to pianist Malcolm Martineau after his completion of his complete Faure songs project for Signum Classics [see my interview, 'Don't be scared of song'], and he is now back with the complete songs of Henri Duparc. Like the Faure, and several of his other projects, Martineau has done the recording with a group of singers, as he explained in the interview 'he wanted to evoke the atmosphere of the first performances of these songs as music-making amongst friends'.So on Signum Classics we have The Complete Songs of Duparc with Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Huw Montague Rendall […]
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