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2024-04-24 08:20:00
The 13th Lewes Chamber Music Festival takes place from 6 to 8 June 2024 with artistic director Beatrice Philips bringing together 18 of today's most exciting chamber-musicians and soloists to explore the musical ties between Europe and America through celebrating the 150th birthdays of Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, including Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Ode to Napoleon with actor Samuel West, and rare chamber versions of larger scale works by Richard Strauss and Mahler.The weekend opens with early piano quartets by Mahler and Richard Strauss along with music by Elliott Carter and Anton Webern's quintet arrangement of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No.1, and there is more Schoenberg with a late-night performance of Verklärte Nacht. And the festival will include more Schoenberg along with performances of music by Berg, Zemlinsky, Schulhoff, Korngold, Hindemith, Brahms, Ives, Amy Beach and Gershwin.A wonderfully ambitious gala concert features Guido Martin-Brandis' arrangement of the magical closing scenes from […]
2024-04-23 07:26:00
Attention must be paid: the Engegård Quartet at Conway Hall in Mozart, Bartok, Maja Ratkje, and Fanny Mendelssohn
[…] 2024 - concert reviewA day of French song with a focus on Fauré, with Graham Johnson making us love the composer's late period, and James Gilchrist in fine form - concert reviewEngaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar - concert reviewThe sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns - record reviewA City Full of Stories: Anna Phillips on her work with Academy of St Martin in the Fields' SoundWalk - guest postingEnergy, discipline, & sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra & National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins - concert reviewNo boundaries or rules: Yorkshire-based Paradox Orchestra is reinventing the orchestral concert - interviewFull of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides - concert reviewA little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini […]
2024-04-22 08:37:00
[…] A day of French song with a focus on Fauré, with Graham Johnson making us love the composer's late period, and James Gilchrist in fine form - concert reviewEngaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar - concert reviewThe sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns - record reviewA City Full of Stories: Anna Phillips on her work with Academy of St Martin in the Fields' SoundWalk - guest postingEnergy, discipline, & sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra & National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins - concert reviewNo boundaries or rules: Yorkshire-based Paradox Orchestra is reinventing the orchestral concert - interviewFull of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides - concert reviewA little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini […]
2024-04-20 12:00:26
The week in classical: Roman Fever/ The Human Voice; NYO, National Youth Brass Band; Celebrating Sir Neville Marriner – review
Susie Sainsbury theatre; Royal Festival Hall; St Martin-in-the-Fields, LondonPegasus Opera sparks change with a tart two-hander and a woman on the edge; teenage brass players show their mettle; and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields do their founder proudAs a scenario for a chamber opera, try this: two women of “ripe but well-cared-for middle age” (an enviable condition) reminisce as old friends but soon reveal themselves bitter rivals, each harbouring a shocking secret. Edith Wharton’s featherlight short story Roman Fever (1934) can nearly be lifted straight from the page to make a crisp two-hander libretto. The American composer Philip Hagemann (b.1932) did just that in his 1989 opera, set to lush, singable, musical theatre-style music. Wharton’s words remain intact, the levity of the conversation exposed as bitchiness exemplified.Roman Fever was presented as part of a stylish double bill with Francis Poulenc’s La voix humaine (sung in English as The […]
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