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2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] out to include such wonderful and inspiring pieces as Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine, Poulenc’s Litanies à la Vierge noire and Concerto for organ, timpani and strings culminating with Duruflé’s haunting Requiem, widely recognised throughout the musical world as one of the great choral masterpieces of the 20th century. Tickets £15-£35. Norwich Cathedral Choir will lead Sung Eucharist: The Liturgy of St Benedict on the final Sunday of the choir year (14 July 10.30am) with music to include Vierne’s Messe solennelle and Wilberg’s arrangement of Come thou fount of every blessing. And for Festal Evensong and Choir Valedictions on the same day (3.30pm), marking the end of the academic year, one bids farewell to members of the choir who have completed their final year. Free admission. Full details of Norwich Cathedral’s Organ Festival, the cathedral website.
2021-11-28 09:06:40
'A Dangerous Obsession: The Relationship of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud' at the London Song Festival
[…] intensity and violence. As poets, both would have an enormous impact on French poetry and both would inspire generations of composers. For the latest concert in pianist Nigel Foster's London Song Festival season at Hinde Street Methodist Church (26 November 2021), A Dangerous Obsession saw tenor Ben Vonberg-Clark, baritone Julien Van Mellaerts, actor David Mildon and Foster exploring Verlaine and Rimbaud's relationship through songs to their poems, with music by Faure, Charpentier, Debussy, Varese, Vierne, Hahn, Hahn, John Alden Carpenter, Poldowski, , Daniel Ruyneman, Hindemith, Jean Rivier, Eisler, Leon Orthel, Maxime Jacob, Britten, and Pascal Zavaro. The evening was arranged as a narrative, with Ben Vonberg-Clark (who stepped in at the very last possible minute) singing settings of Rimbaud's poetry and Julien Van Mellaerts singing settings of Verlaine's poetry, plus David Mildon providing linking narrative, the whole having being devised by Nigel Foster. The fascinating thing was […]
2021-10-03 11:37:00
As a Wagner conductor he has no equal
[…] organist at the Anglo-Catholic church of St Alban’s, Holborn that was more important. The photo above shows Goodall with members of the choir, and during his time at St Alban’s he built the reputation of the choir in repertoire ranging from renaissance masterpieces including Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices, through Bruckner to Stravinsky and contemporary composers such as Jan Mul from the Netherlands. Goodall was also a virtuoso organist and his repertoire included Tournemire, Widor, Vierne and Dupré.The reputation of the St Alban’s Choir rapidly spread, and in December 1934 the boys sang in the first public performance of A Boy Was Born by an up and coming young composer called Benjamin Britten. The occasion was one of the contemporary music concerts promoted by a trio of women, Iris Lemare, the violinist Anne Mcnaghten, and the composer Elisabeth Lutyens who featured herself in an article here recently. This early collaboration […]
2021-06-22 08:26:47
The Constant Heart: the Marian Consort at the Dunster Festival
[…] some lovely and rather distinctive textures. All three of the Dunster Festival's digital concerts will be available on-line for six months, besides The Constant Heart the festival features Agony and Ecstasy, Daniel Pioro (violin) and Clare O'Connell (cello) in a programme of Bach and Biber alongside three contemporary composers Rebecca Saunders, Cassandra Miller and Reiko Futing, and Clair de Lune, Emma Brain-Gabbott (soprano), Rachel Wick (harp) and Lawrence Sail (poet) in music by Debussy, Louis Vierne, André Caplet and Jean-Michel Damase plus poetry in French and in English. Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog Grange Park Opera gives us a rare chance to see Rimsky Korskov's first opera, Ivan the Terrible in a striking production by David Pountney - opera review […]
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