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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] project an impressive number of words. A concentrated performance creating something intense and evocative.A lighthouse near Holbeck by Rosemary Shapes Tickle (music) and Kristina Diprose (words), performed by Elia Farreras Cabero (soprano) and Lucas Huber Sierra (piano), mixed spare, edgy piano with a more lyric, expressionist voice creating an intriguing sound world but raising the suspicion that more interest was in the piano with Shapes Tickle being over careful in the vocal writing. The Birdman of Adel Woods by Huw Mears (music) and Susan Darlington (words), performed by Felicitas Wrede (soprano) and Abhisri Chaudhuri (piano), was dark an expressionist in tone, conjuring real atmosphere.Richard's Song by Dawn Walters (music) and Laura Strickland (words), performed by Thomas McGowan (baritone) and Benjamin Collyer (piano), felt very mid-20th century English, attractively lyric and well-written for voice with discreet yet atmospheric piano writing, creating something touching. The Changeling Moss by David Palmer (music) and Lizzie Nolan (words), performed by Laura […]
2024-03-25 03:30:00
Dvořák: Cello Concerto et al. (CD Review)
by Karl NehringCello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191; Klid (Silent Woods), Op. 68, B 182; Rondo in G minor, Op. 94, B. 181; Romance in F minor, Op. 11B. 39; Mazurek in E minor, Op. 49, B. 90. Zara Nelsova, cello; Ruggiero Ricci, violin; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Walter Susskind, conductor VOX-NX-3034CDAntonin Dvořák’s Cello Concerto is a work that is dear to many music lovers. It is filled with beautiful melodies that appeal to both the head and the heart, making it one of those pieces that can serve as a wonderful way to introduce those unfamiliar with classical music into its spellbinding realm. When I received this recording for review, I tried to remember which recording if the work I had first acquired back in the mid-1970s when I began to become seriously interested in classical music, but drew a blank. However, I vividly remember hearing the work in concert. […]
2024-03-08 00:00:00
Paavo Jarvi conducts
[…] conducted by Paavo JärviSignum SIGCD477 [recorded November 2015 and May 2016; issued 2017][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording engineer: Jonathan Stokes; Producer: Andrew CornallDmitri Shostakovich and Veljo Tormis:01 - 04 Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 in E minor, op.93 [55'56]05 Veljo Tormis: Overture No.2 [11'19]Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo JärviTelarc CD-80702 [recorded April 2008; first issued 2009][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recording engineer: Michael Bishop; Producers: Robert Woods and Eric DudleyWilhelm Stenhammar:01 - 04 Symphony No. 2 in G minor, op.34 [47'31]05 Serenade in F major, op.31 - Reveranza (original second movement) [6'47]06 - 07 2 Songs, op.4 * [7'08]08 Excelsior! A Symphonic Overture, op.13 [14'28]Anne Sofie von Otter- mezzo *, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paavo JärviVirgin Classics CDC545244-2 [recorded September and October 1966; first issued 1999][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recording venue: Konserthus, […]
2024-02-27 10:39:00
Der fliegende Holländer: Persona Arts, a new BME-led West Midlands based arts company staging Wagner's opera in Birmingham
[…] community activities are planned.Next up is a public opera masterclass with Susan Bullock for aspiring singers on Friday 19 April 2024, giving the audience the opportunity to see what it takes in preparing opera singers to reach their full potential.Persona Arts presents Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on 7, 10 and 13 July 2024, directed by Iqbal Khan. Jack Ridley conducts the Central England Camerata with soloists including Anando Mukerjee, Mari Wyn Williams, Laura Woods, Christian Joel, Gerrit Paul Groen and Byron Jackson. Full details from the Persona Arts website.
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