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2024-04-16 08:29:00
Das Jahr: OAE commissions four women composers to respond to Fanny Hensel's piano cycle
[…] getting it performed.The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) has taken a leap sideways when it comes to expanding the repertoire. Focusing on Fanny Hensel's 1841 piano cycle, Das Jahr, the OAE has commissioned four contemporary women composers to write works inspired by the cycle. Fanny Hensel described Das Jahr as "small work that is giving me much fun", so the OAE is having the complete cycle played on fortepiano by Olga Pashchenko and has then commissioned Roxanna Panufnik, Electra Perivolaris, Freya Waley-Cohen and Errollyn Wallen to respond to movements from the work, writing for an orchestra of the period.Das Jahr was something of a family project. Fanny Hensel wrote 13 pieces, one for each month and a prelude, each prefaced by a poetical quote and a specially created illustration by her husband, the artist Wilhelm Hensel. Electra Perivolaris will take 'March' as her starting point, followed by a contribution inspired by 'April' from […]
2023-09-25 12:42:00
Joy & Devotion, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's festival of Polish Sacred Music returns to St Martin in the Fields
Joy & Devotion, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's festival of Polish Sacred Music under the artistic directorship of composer Paweł Łukaszewski, returns to St Martin in the Fields from 7 to 11 November 2023 with Polish music from 16th century through to the present day.Things kick off with the Brabant Ensemble, conductor Stephen Rice, in music by Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665-1734) and Mikołaj Zieleński (1560-1620) alongside music by contemporary Polish composers. Then the Carice Singers, conductor George Parris, present music devoted to the Virgin Mary by Andrzej Panufnik, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Krzysztof Penderecki alongside works by Roman Padlewski, who died in the Warsaw Uprising whilst fighting the Second World War, Marian Sawa (1937-2005), and contemporary composers Aldona Nawrocka and Tomasz Soczek.Passion and Resurrection features the Epiphoni Consort, conductor Tim Reader, in a concert celebrating the passion and resurrection of Christ including two works by Paweł Łukaszewski, plus music by Romuald Twardowski (born 1930), Andrzej Koszewski (1922-2015), a composer who drew from folk music […]
2023-02-21 10:59:00
Coronation chicken
Judith Weir, Tarik O'Regan, and Roxanna Panufnik are among the composers with commissions for the coronation of King Charles. I just hope they know what they have let themselves in for. The future King professes an enthusiasm for classical music, but this comes with strong views. Michael Tippett's Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles was commissioned by the BBC in 1948 to celebrate the birth of the heir to the throne, and is undoubtedly the composers most tuneful work. But I am told by a major London orchestra manager who tried to programme the Suite for a concert in the royal presence that Charles hates the piece. In his autobiography the great arts visionary Sir John Drummond gave a candid view on Charles' tastes:"I have always found the Prince's lack of interest in anything to do with the arts in our time depressing, since all his opinions get so […]
2022-12-07 10:24:04
Composer Roxanna Panufnik has teamed up with performers and a gospel choir for the single, raising funds for Refugee Council
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