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2024-04-05 09:27:00
Sea Songs: Brighton Philharmonic in Geirr Tveitt's Hardanger fiddle concerto and other delights
Ragnhild Hemsing and Hardanger fiddle (Photo: Nikolaj Lund)On Sunday, 7 April 2024, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's season finale at the Dome in Brighton features dynamic young conductor Adam Hickox in Sea Songs. Yes, the programme does begin with Britten's Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes' and ends with Debussy's La Mer (written just down the coast in Eastbourne!), but the real meat is in between these. Ragnhild Hemsing is the Hardanger fiddle soloist in Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt's Concerto No. 2 Three Fjords, whilst Joanna Macgregor is the piano soloist in music by the great Japanese film composer, record producer and actor Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died last year.The hardanger fiddle is Norway's national instrument; it probably originated in the 17th century s a hybrid of earlier folk fiddles and the viola d’amore. Its tone is smaller than the violin and‚ with its four sympathetic strings‚ sounds not unlike a treble viol. Geir Tveitt (1908-1981) was a central […]
2022-09-02 12:00:35
Awards/Competitions Santander Piano Competition First Prize: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (Canada) Second Prize: Xiaolu Zang (China) Third Prize: Marcel Tadokoro (France/Japan) Verbier Festival Academy Yves Paternot (First) Prize: Bryan Cheng (Canada) Jean-Nicolas Firmenich Prize: Stéphanie Huang (Belgium) Tabor Foundation Award: Giovanni Bertolazzi (Italy), Misi Boros (Hungary) Thierry Mermod Prize: Sofie Lund (Denmark), Dennis Chmelensky (Germany), Celine Mun [...]
2021-10-30 08:53:28
Everything is in the music: conductor Antonello Manacorda on returning to La Traviata at Covent Garden, balancing concert work & opera, & music-making being a journey rather than a single event
Antonello Manacorda (Photo Nikolaj Lund) The Italian conductor Antonello Manacorda is currently conducting the current revival of Richard Eyre's production of Verdi's La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, with Lisette Oropesa, Kristina Mkhitaryan, and Anush Hovhannisyan sharing the role of Violetta. Based in Berlin, Antonello will be returning to our shores later this year for a concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (23 November 2021), with further orchestral engagements in the UK planned including with a period instrument ensemble. These neatly sum up the various threads in Antonello's career, opera, symphonic concerts and historically informed performance, as he balances a career in the opera house with being the music director of the Kammerakademie Potsdam. We meet at the Royal Opera House after Antonello has had a long day rehearsing two different casts for La Traviata [which subsequently received strong reviews, see Tim Ashley's review in The Guardian]. He […]
2021-02-12 09:20:47
Chant, improvisation and traditional instruments: Schola Cantorum Riga give us a taste of sacred music in Medieval Riga on Vox Clara on the Skani label
Vox Clara - Late Medieval Chant from Riga, Hamburg, Lund, Limoges; Schola Cantorum Riga, Guntars Prānis, Ieva Nimane; SKANI Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 February 2021 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) The Latvian group bringing elements of traditional music into the performance of Late Medieval chant to give a taste of how the music might have sounded in Medieval Riga The Schola Cantorum Riga was founded over twenty year ago, exploring Gregorian chant and other early music repertoires from the oldest manuscripts as well as performing contemporary composers such as Rihards Dubra. The group was founded by Guntars Prānis, who is still artistic director, and Pranis' research interests include the sacred music tradition of Riga in the context of various local practices and this feeds into the group's latest disc. Vox Clara on the Skani label features Schola Cantorum Riga and Guntars Prānis in […]
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