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2024-04-19 13:28:03
St John’s Smith Square, LondonLee Reynolds’ reduced arrangements of Schoenberg and Mahler were convincing and involvingThe concerts of the Society for Private Musical Performances that
2024-04-12 08:35:00
Full of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides
John Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Tears - Sean Shibe, The Dunedin ConsortMilton Court Concert HallRowallan Manuscript, Straloch Manuscript, Dowland, Purcell, Geminiani, James MacMillan arr. George Duthie, David Fennessy, Linda Catlin Smith, Cassandra Miller; Sean Shibe, The Dunedin Consort, John Butt; Milton Court concert hall, BarbicanReviewed 11 April 2024Moving from the sheer magic of Dowland writing for lute and viols through to contemporary music for guitar and strings, ending with Cassandra Miller's mesmerising new concerto. A programme full of good things that never quite coheredThe somewhat awkwardly titled Reformations: Concerto at the Barbican Centre's Milton Court concert hall featured Sean Shibe on lute and guitar alongside the strings of the Dunedin Consort, conductor John Butt, in a programme that culminated in the premiere of Cassandra Miller's new guitar concerto, Chanter. This was presented as the end point in a sequence that started with lute pieces from the Rowallan Manuscript and the Straloch […]
2024-04-06 08:42:00
Spell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells
[…] he is. She also admires great melodists like Mozart and Schubert, and she always ends up going back to Bach, doodling through Bach's chorales to get her brain in order.When I ask about heroes, she comments that she is uncomfortable with the idea of a hero and scared of making one. She listens to a lot of the music of her peers, and she has always listened to her friends and peers and mentions Gabriella Smith and Andrew Norman.Freya Waley-Cohen: WITCH - Royal Academy of Music, 2022The process of writing music, for her, involves both paper and computer. She sketches a lot on paper and fills notebooks with manuscript and writing, but then she gets onto Sibelius and continues things there, but might jump out and return to sketching. She admits that she has never had tidy or fast handwriting. This is partly because she is ambidextrous and when young, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-04 19:21:12
BSO Announces Subscription Season
[…] this year’s Stravinsky lacuna will be remedied with the Violin Concerto, Symphony of Psalms, and Symphony in Three Movements, as well as the familiarly thrilling Firebird Suite. HIs first opera. Die tote Stadt (1920), instantly established the 23-year-old prodigy Wolfgang Korngold. Its many fine moments, such as the immortal “Marietta’s Lied,” convey the emotional wallop of his later Hollywood scores. A Grieg-Sibelius event, all warhorses except the Sib Seventh, comes in November. Executive director Chad’s Smith first complete season schedules embraces: plentiful Ravel and Tchaikovsky, including the latter’s less-often-heard Francesca da Rimini; copious Shostakovich, to help Andris Nelsons fill out his namesake cycle; some fine Haydn and Mozart to match Beethoven, one Schubert, the charming Rossinian Sixth Symphony; one Berlioz (Waverley); one Schumann (Piano Concerto with Jonathan Biss, welcome back!); and some lesser-known Russian works, including Rachmaninoff’s striking Symphony No. 3 (his best); and a lovely ancestor, The Enchanted Lake […]
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