Thomas Haigh News
English musician and composer
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- Kingdom of Great Britain
- composer, violinist, pianist
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2023-12-19 09:07:00
75th Aldeburgh Festival: Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, Britten's Curlew River, Sumidagawa & more
[…] bass-baritone Sir Willard White and singers and alumni from the Britten Pears Young Artists programme. There will also be a chance to see the Japanese Noh play, Sumidagawa (Sumida River) that inspired Britten and the performance will be preceded by a new English re-telling of the story by Xanthe Gresham Knight.The festival will feature a total of 23 world premieres (of which 10 are Britten Pears Arts commissions) from composers including Lara Agar, Tom Coult, Graham Fitkin, Robin Haigh, Joanna Ward, Judith Weir and Ryan Wigglesworth, plus three UK premieres of music by Unsuk Chin and Thomas Larcher. Made in Snape is a strand of new music created on residencies at Snape Maltings by a wide range of contemporary musicians including Xhosa Cole, Mark Sanders and Jason Singh; Emily Levy and Mella Faye; Holy Other; Tom Rogerson, Liam Byrne and Clare O’Connell.Soprano Gweneth Ann Rand will performing the three major Messiaen song cycles over three […]
2023-11-04 04:00:00
Haigh: Six Concertos for Harpsichord (Barbara Harbach)
Thomas Haigh (1769-1808) Six Concertos for Solo Harpsichord (1783)Barbara Harbach-Harpsichord(Period Instruments)MSR Classics MS 1441 (1999/2012) [Flac & Scans]
2020-08-31 10:01:17
A Life On-Line: First night of Proms, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Samson and Delila in Flanders
[…] under-appreciated genre of the melodrama, and Chrisopher Good fabulously captured the wry tone of the text, based on Saki. [Presteigne Festival] And we also caught the terrific recital from tenor Bradley Smith and harpist Oliver Wass, including Britten's Suite for Harp, and folk-song arrangements, plus the premiere of Amelia Clarkson's Through his gaze, three songs for tenor and harp setting WB Yeats, Freya Waley-Cohen's Skye, Howard Skempton's Three Songs for Jennie, and another commission Robin Haigh's No-One [Presteigne Festival] Soprano Julia Sitkovetsky and pianist Dylan Perez performed live at the 1901 Arts Club, in a lovely programme of Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss' Drei Ophelia Lieder, Debussy's Ariettes Oubliees, and Rachmaninov [YouTube] Sometimes you explore the internet and fall down a worm-hole into another era. This happened when I came across one of composer Edward McGuire's postings on Facebook, it was referring to an archive recording from 30 years ago of […]
2020-07-03 10:17:35
John George Haigh, The acid bath murderer.
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