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2022-04-15 16:30:44
Australian violinist Sophie Rowell currently serves as Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In her new role with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra (MCO), she will be just its third artistic director in its over 30-year history. She will succeed William Hennessy and Jeffrey Crellin. Rowell was a founding member of the Tankstream Quartet, which […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-06-09 21:14:25
Swan Hennessy (1866-1929) was born near Chicago, studied in Stuttgart as a teenager, and eventually made his way to Paris in 1903, where he lived for the rest of his life. His idiomatic and well-crafted piano music is hard to pigeonhole, although pianist Moritz Ernst’s excellent and informative annotations discuss the prevalent Celtic influence in […]
2021-04-04 09:44:38
A Life On-Line: Passions from Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square and Berwaldhallen, Stockholm
[…] Alexander Chance, Guy Cutting, Frederick Long and Molly Noon. Orchestra 1 was led by Bojan Čičić with Magdalena Loth-Hill (violin), Stefanie Heichelheim (viola), Jonathan Rees (cello & gamba), Peter McCarthy (violone), Ashley Solomon & Marta Goncalves (flutes), Leo Duarte & Bethan White (oboes), William Whitehead (organ). Orchestra 2 was led by Oliver Webber with Gabriella Jones (violin), Katie Heller (viola), Henrik Persson (cello & gamba), Jan Zahourek (bass), Rachel Brown & Eva Caballero (flutes), Gail Hennessy & Geoff Coates (oboes), Julian Perkins (harpsichord). The performance was in the round, so that the singers of choir 1 faced orchestra 1, and for the solos the soloist stood in the middle. Whilst we lacked an element of the back and forth between the two ensembles in the larger scale choruses it worked supremely well, facilitating the no-conductor approach. We don't know how many performers Bach had, but the surviving parts suggest that […]
2020-05-11 03:03:30
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