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Italian composer and organist
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-27 00:47:06
Over the weekend the Handel & Haydn Society welcomed back Conductor Laureate Harry Christophers to Symphony Hall for its yearly portion of Mozart and Haydn. Predictable selections of those two composers capped the ends of event, but the addition of music from Hildegard von Bingen and Raffaella Aleotti gave the audience a rewarding exploration of nearly 700 years of composition. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2021-07-20 08:59:40
Young contemporary composers to late Haydn: London Oriana Choir at Opera Holland Park
Interior of Eistenstadt Cathedral where Haydn's Mass in D was premiered(photo Rudolf Strutz) Redford, Daley, Curry, Mack, Disley-Simpson, David, Haydn; Sian Dicker, Hannah Bennett, Guy Withers, Alex Jones, London Oriana Choir, City of London Sinfonia, Dominic Ellis-Peckham; Opera Holland Park Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 19 July 2021 A welcome chance to hear large-scale choral music again in an imaginative programme which mixed works from the choir's five15 commissioning programme with Haydn's great mass in the time of distressThis year, a sort of fringe festival has grown up around the main festival at Opera Holland Park. James Clutton, the company's director, has been taking advantage of the nights when the theatre is dark to offer the space to other performers, providing performance opportunities at a time when badly needed. So, British Youth Opera will be performing its season there, there is a song recital series next week, […]
2020-06-30 07:00:35
Making Waves: London Oriana Choir's on-line premiere of new work by Anna Disley-Simpson
The London Oriana Choir, conductor Dominic Ellis-Peckham, is planning a virtual concert on Saturday 4 July 2020, as part of its five15 project supporting and exploring the work of women composers. Saturday's concert will feature performances of works by Cecilia McDowall, Kerry Andrew, Eleanor Daley, Mia Makaroff, Vittoria Aleotti (1575-1620) and Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), arr Felicia Sandler, recorded at concerts at the Cutty Sark and the Stationers Hall. And there will be the premiere of a new lockdown commission, Waves from the choir's composer in residence, Anna Disley-Simpson. The event will also feature introductions from Cecilia McDowall and Felicia Sandler, and Dominic Peckham will be talking to Anna Display-Simpson. Full details from the London Oriana Choir's website.
2016-10-15 03:24:32
[…] is a classical composer and pianist. Hildegard of Bingen (1098) Saint Hildegard was a Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and polymath. She is considered a founder of scientific natural history. Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544 – c. 1590) was the first female composer in the history of western music to have her music printed and published. Claudia Sessa (c. 1570 – c. 1617/19) composed two sacred works published in 1613. Vittoria Aleotti (ca. 1575 – after 1620) (possibly to be the same as Raffaella Aleotti (ca. 1570 – after 1646)) was a composer and organist.
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