William Byrd News
English composer (ca. 1540-1623)
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2024-04-17 06:39:00
Southbank Centre's new season: Schoenberg's 150th, the OAE in Bruckner, Joyce Didonato in Berlioz, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim
[…] Bach, Brahms and Beethoven in his Royal Festival Hall solo recital debut.Lawrence Power will continue his residency by joining forces with composer/soprano Heloise Werner and lutenist Sergio Bucheli, and Power is the soloist in the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg's Viola Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Manchester Collective continues its residency with collaborations with pianist extraordinaire Zubin Kanga and cellist phenomenon Abel Selacoe. Organist James McVinnie [see my recent interview with him] continues his residency with Stanford, Byrd, and Liszt on the RFH organ, and Bach on organ and piano.Daniel Barenboim will be conducting the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4, Chineke! perform music by Florence Price (the UK premiere of her Symphony No. 4!), Eleanor Alberga, Valerie Coleman and Brian Raphael Nabor, the London Symphony Orchestra pairs Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 with Schoenberg's A survivor in Warsaw, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will be burning the candle at […]
2024-04-13 21:00:00
Ewald Demeyere - Tears
Tears - Harpsichord Lamentsof the Seventeenth CenturyWorks of Byrd, Tomkins,Froberger, Couperin and SchildtEwald Demeyere - virginal, harpsichordVirginal is a Ruckers copyHarpsichord is a copy of an Austrian instrument (c. 1680)Recorded October 2012Label: Challenge Classics CC72617
2024-03-28 07:41:00
[…] new pieces will be performed in a special concert featuring Karen Jones, flute, Thomas Kemp, violin, Richard Harwood, cello and Steven Devine, cello, performing Bach’s chamber music alongside these new works.This year’s Music@Malling Festival which will run from 20-28 September, include The Seven Deadly Sins, an installation of art by Ana Maria Pacheco and music by John Woolrich, The Marian Consort performing Purcell and new works by Deborah Pritchard and Gavin Bryars, Fretwork performing consorts by Byrd and Tallis with contemporary works by John Woolrich and George Benjamin, Chamber Domaine performing with tenor, Mark Padmore and BCMG performing Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.Full details from Music@Malling's website.
2024-03-23 09:49:00
Writing Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys
[…] we can only guess. George Jeffreys was actually Christopher Hatton's steward, so no doubt other servants doubled as musicians. The Hattons also had a London residence (the present-day Hatton Garden is named for it), so presumably there they would have access to more able, professionalised musicians, but this is all conjecture.Some seven or eight hours of music by Jeffreys survives, a not insignificant amount of music though much less than the surviving works by William Byrd. And of course, more could be discovered. William admits that though he loves digging around in archives, he just doesn't have time for it and that they were lucky that the spadework was done by Jonathan Wainwright. Further ahead, William has a rich mix of musical projects to look forward to. With Easter just coming up, he has Bach's Passions to look forward to. He has solo recitals in Vienna and Hamburg, will be playing keyboard with […]
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