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2021-12-29 18:37:00
Tally of performances attended, 2021
Another strange and, let us hope, highly unrepresentative year, if not quite so strange as last year. As usual, I have counted any composer once for any one event (i.e. Parsifal counts as one, as does a minute of Webern, as do four Beethoven sonatas in the same recital). Concert performances still count as opera. Interesting and heartening to see Janáček fare so well, but there was one very clear winner for 2021: Opera 6 Mozart3 Janáček 2 Gluck, Wagner 1 Darren Berry, Cavalli, Enescu, Humperdinck, Ravel, Strauss, Tippett, Alastair White Concerts 6 Mozart 5 Beethoven, Schubert 3 Schumann, Stravinsky 2 JS Bach, Bartók, Brahms, Haydn, Janáček, Mahler, Messiaen, Purcell, Ravel, Sibelius, Strauss 1 CPE Bach, WF Bach, Martin Baker, Mason Bates, Benjamin, Berlioz, Berg, Georg Böhm, Joseph Bologne, Bruch, Byrd, Britta Byström, Chopin, Ann Cleare, Couperin, Debussy, Dvořák, Elgar, Brian Elias, Raquel García-Tomás, Gerhard, Gibbons, Gossec, […]
2021-12-02 18:20:00
'A Catalan Celebration': London Sinfonietta/Colomer - Gerhard, Magrané, García-Tomás, and Illean, 1 December 2021
Queen Elizabeth HallRoberto Gerhard: LibraJoan Magrané Figuera: Faula Raquel García-Tomás: aequae Lisa Illean: JanuariesGerhard: Leo London SinfoniettaEdmon Colomer (conductor) A miserable, rainy night seemed just the right time for the London Sinfonietta, in association with the Institut Ramon Llull, to light up the Queen Elizabeth Hall with what they called ‘A Catalan Celebration’. 2020, the year without music, marked fifty years since the death of Roberto Gerhard. It was doubly welcome, then, to have this celebration of mostly Catalan music take place in 2021, the year when music tentatively returned to our lives. To hear fine performances not only of music by Gerhard, but also works by contemporary (to us) Catalan composers, Joan Magrané Figuera and Raquel García-Tomás, as well as one by the Australian-born, London-resident Lisa Illean, would have been a splendid opportunity at any time. It also helped dispel a little of the current misery […]
2021-10-12 08:30:14
Catalonia, Poland, Canada and more: London Sinfonietta's new season
London Sinfonietta (Photo Kevin Leighton) The London Sinfonietta's new season is brimful of new works, and of works exploring new territories whether geographical or metaphysical. The Autumn season includes two major works by Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard, Libra and Leo, both of which were premiered in 1968. Edmon Colomer conducts a programme which includes the Gerhard pieces alongside works by Catalan composers Joan Magrané Figuera and Raquel García Tomás (Huddersfield, 22/11/21, Southbank, 1/12/21). Poland is the focus for Jessica Cottis' concert which includes Krzysztof Penderecki’s Sinfonietta per archi (1992) alongside two world premieres from Wojciech Błażejczyk and Paweł Mykietyn, both commissions from the newly launched International Centre for Contemporary Music (27/4/2022). Canada is the next country, as Ilan Volkov conducts Lonely Child the master work of Canadian composer Claude Vivier, with soprano Clare Booth, alongside a new work by contemporary Canadian composer Nicole Lizée. The concert is also a training […]
2020-11-17 19:53:51
Anglais - Sis Solos Soles at the Liceu
[…] Alex Rodríguez-Flaqué. The Sis solos soles project ends with Per precaució (As a precaution), an intensely expressive piece who presents an elderly woman, masterfully interpreted by soprano Dolors Aldea, who rejects the idea of going to a care home where her family want to send her. She calmly accepts death at her home surrounded by the furniture and objects that have accompanied her all her life. Very interesting musically, Per precaució is written by Raquel García Tomás, the only female composer of this ensemble of little operas revolving around women. Raquel García Tomás, born in Barcelona in 1984, with a Doctorate by the Royal College of Music in London, had won the Spanish Composition National Music Award this past October. Xavier Pujol Darrer missatge by Mario G. Cortizo, text by de Marc Rosich, with Elena Tarrats, soprano and Mario G. Cortizo, percussion. Cállate by Francesc Prat, text by […]
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