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Bliss International Song Series 2024: Schumann & Schubert in Pembroke College's newly refurbished chamber hall
Joseph Middleton & Sarah Connolly at Pembroke College's Bliss International Song Series in 2023 (Photo: Sally March)Pembroke College, Cambridge's Bliss International Song Series, artistic director Joseph Middleton, relaunched last year in the college's newly refurbished 200-seater chamber hall (a former United Reformed Church), complete with new Steinway (previously the song series had been in the Old Library). The series is named for composer Sir Arthur Bliss who studied at the college. So far this season, the series has seen recitals by Sir Simon Keenlyside and Dame Sarah Connolly, and a masterclass from Sir Thomas Allen.On Friday 9 February, baritone Konstantin Krimmel and pianist Joseph Middleton perform Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, then on 5 March tenor Christoph Prégardien and Joseph Middleton present A Heine Songbook with settings of Heine's poetry by Schubert and Schumann including Schumann's Dichterliebe.Founded and Directed by Joseph Middleton, Pembroke Bye-Fellow and College Musician, the series offers a year-round programme of concerts devised […]
2023-11-17 05:00:00
Bainbridge, Lloyd, Simpson, Vaughan Williams, Welsh Favourites & Tuba Concertos (Horenstein, Penny, Tilson Thomas et al)
[…] * [30'11]Abbey Brass conducted by Paul Drayton and Tony Hindley *FS Records FSR201 [recorded June 2019 to February 2020; issued 2020][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St Michael’s Church, Newquay, UKRecording engineer and Producer: Francis ShepherdRobert Simpson (1921-1997):01 - 02 Symphony No. 3 (1962) * [30'54]03 - 07 Clarinet Quintet (1968) ^ [34'23]London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jascha Horenstein *; Bernard Walton- clarinet and The Aeolian String Quartet (Sydney Humphreys and Raymond Keenlyside- violins, Margaret Major- viola and Derek Simpson- cello) ^NMC NMCD109 [recorded June 1970* and August 1979^ for Unicorn-Kanchana; this NMC release 2006] [digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Barking Assembly Hall* and Christ Church Chelsea^, LondonRecording engineer: Bob Auger; Producers: Robert Simpson and Antony Hodgson*Welsh Classical Favourites:01 Grace Williams (1906-1977): Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes [10'34]02 Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941): Solemn Melody [3'43]03 Gareth Walters (1928-): Overture. Primavera [6'43]04 Trevor Roberts […]
2023-08-07 22:54:00
War Memorial Opera HouseVintage PostcardCollection of Lisa HirschYou'd think that the scheduling folks at San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera would talk to each other about important events at each organization. They work across the street from each other, and many people, some of them big donors to both organizations, like to attend major events at both.But somehow, we've got the following conflict:Friday, September 22, 2023: San Francisco Symphony's open night Friday, September 22, 2023: San Francisco Opera's first performance of The (R)evolution of Steven Jobs, of which the company is a co-commissionerI can't imagine that it's possible to fix this. SFS has Simon Keenlyside coming in for the opening gala; SFO can't move the opening of Steve Jobs to Saturday, September 23, because there's a Trovatore performance that night. Pulling it in to Thursday? Well, not if the dress rehearsal is on Wednesday, and not without seriously inconveniencing everyone who has a ticket […]
2023-08-04 23:07:00
This started out as a San Francisco Opera wish list, but hey - there are a number of other opera companies in the Bay Area that are capable of staging (or have already staged) works and composers that I have in mind.Debussy, Pélleas et Mélisande. San Francisco Opera hasn't done this great masterpiece since the late 1990s, when Simon Keenlyside and Frederica von Stade starred as Debussy's doomed characters. It's sui generis, an elusive and quietly devastating opera without big arias. West Edge Opera took in on and did an excellent job with it, I think in 2018, with a reduced orchestra and some cuts. LA Opera's bring up this past spring was magnificent, with a terrific cast, masterly conducting by James Condon, and a really fine David McVicar production. I'll be seeing it in around two weeks in Santa Fe and have reached a point where I can't get enough […]
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