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2024-03-26 08:10:00
A radical new look: full line-up for Nevill Holt's 2024 festival
[…] Debbie Wiseman played by Katherine Rockhill. Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Dan Tepfer will be performing French chanson and there is more French chanson from Jessica Walker and Joseph AtkinsJazz performers include Jalen Ngonda, and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra, music director Pete Long, with Liane Carroll. Throughout the festival there will be a display of sculpture by Anthony Caro across the Nevill Holt estate alongside an outdoor sculpture collection including work by Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Allen Jones, Conrad Shawcross, Marc Quinn and Sean Henry. There will be a screening of Vinny Rawding and Lee Cogswell's BOTY, and there will be conversations with sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, photographer David Yarrow, artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman, sculptor Nic Fiddian-Green and artist Allen Jones. Talks include Simon Martin on British Pop Art, and Daniel Hermann on the work of Eduardo Paolozzi.On 14 and 15 June there is an extensive programme of conversations and talks, […]
2024-03-25 08:15:00
Lush romanticism was a long way away: an immersive contemporary interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from Figure
Our Mother - Rowan Pierce, Emma Kirkby, Alexandra Achillea Pouta - Figure at Stone Nest (Photo: Kristina Allen)Our Mother: Pergolesi: Stabat Mater with interludes by Alex Mills; Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce, Alexandra Achillea Pouta, Nadya Pickup, Figure, Frederick Waxman, Sophie Daneman; Stone NestReviewed 23 March 2024An abstract, immersive staging, concentrating on dramatising the emotional arc of Pergolesi's work interleaved with impressive new interludes from young composer Alex MillsHistorical performance group, Figure, music director Frederick Waxman, has become known for its fascinatingly staged interpretation of classics and recent work has included Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Opera Holland Park and This is my Body, an immersive staging of Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri [see my review]. For their latest project, Our Mother at Stone Nest (seen 23 March 2024), Figure performed Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with new interludes by composer Alex Mills. The soloists were Dame Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce, Alexandra Achillea Pouta and Nadya Pickup, […]
2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] Tickets £12. Seating unreserved. A ‘free admission’ family morning concert comes with the ‘Battle of the Organs’ (Saturday, 13 July, 11am) witnessing Norwich Cathedral’s organists - Ashley Grote, David Dunnett and Robbie Carroll - joining forces to play musical favourites ranging from Bach’s Toccata and Fugue D minor to the theme from Thunderbirds on three organs all at once utilising the Cathedral’s newly-rebuilt pipe organ, the one-manual chamber organ and a digital touring organ generously supplied by Allen organs. Retiring collection. Youth gets in on the act, too, with a couple of Young Organists’ Platform lunchtime concerts being held at St Peter Mancroft Church on Tuesday 9 July and Friday 12 July at 1pm in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the church’s Peter Collins’ organ. Free admission. Retiring collection. The youthfulness of Norwich Cathedral’s Girl Choristers come to the fore and will be heard in tandem with the Lay Clerks and Choral […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 19:16:31
NEP Piques Our Interest
[…] shifts can be dangerously distracting during a live performance; playing with a score is less risky. Gil, I know that you often memorize scores you conduct, but Paul Jacobs has done the complete Bach, Messiaen, Brahms, and Franck from memory? Wadaya think of that? GR: Well, that’s got to be like 70 hours of music! Back to the current interview. Paul, what kind of an electronic organ will you be using? PJ: We’ll use an Allen Digital Organ for the performance. Since the venue doesn’t already have a pipe organ, we needed to secure a digital instrument for John Harbison’s superbly crafted composition to be programmed. My philosophy is that it’s preferable to have the music heard rather than not. Would Bach have chosen an Allen Organ? PJ: It’s difficult to speculate on what brand of electronic (or “digital”) organ Bach himself might have preferred. Regardless, we’re all committed to […]
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