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2024-03-16 13:00:05
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff; Linbury theatre; St Andrew’s church, LondonBritten’s yearning swansong blazes and beguiles in Welsh National Opera’s new production. Elsewhere, the sad tale of ‘Irish Giant’ Charles Byrne, and an enterprising orchestra for allHope ends in death. That thought tinges every bar of Benjamin Britten’s
2024-03-02 09:03:00
Shamus O'Brien: withdrawn by the composer for political reasons, Stanford's most popular opera languished in the 20th century but all that seems set to change
[…] returned to their place in the repertoire. Stanford wrote nine operas and these still are not well known; currently only The Travelling Companion is available in a complete on disc [from SOMM Records]. Even a work like Shamus O'Brien has no recording.This is all going to change as Retrospect Opera is releasing the first studio recording of Stanford's Shamus O'Brien with David Parry conducting the Orchestra of Scottish Opera plus soloists Brendan Collins, Anna Brady, Gemma Ni Bhriain, Ami Hewitt, Joseph Doody, Andrew Gavin and Rory Dunne with Irish piper Jarlath Henderson.I recently caught up by Zoom with conductor David Parry who was in Scotland amid performances of Jonathan Dove's new opera, Marx in London, a work which David refers to as fantastic. It has been something of a hit, too, with audiences with Scottish Opera selling out the Theatre Royal in Glasgow.Whilst Shamus O'Brien was popular in its time, David thinks that its […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-22 18:04:24
Angela Hewitt encouraged the Gardner crowd to hear anew the timeless power of J S Bach’s WTC as fons et origo of Western music; she also brought deep engagement to Schumann’s “cry of the heart to Clara’s heart.” [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-01-15 20:54:09
SCRUTINY | Angela Hewitt Gets To The Counterpoint In Koerner Hall
For decades Angela Hewitt has been finding ways of making a piano recital seem special, a feat she repeated before a sellout crowd in Koerner Hall.
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