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2021-07-24 11:30:21
Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, SurreyFormer banker Anthony Bolton duly invests and borrows for his cleverly staged opera based on Marina Litvinenko’s account of her husband’s murder We’d been warned. Yet still the “Chechen rebels” who took to the stage and pointed automatic rifles at us made the heart lurch. This recreation of the 2002 siege in a Moscow theatre was one of many fact-based episodes in Anthony Bolton’s The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko, which had its world premiere at Grange Park Opera last week. This examination of events surrounding the Russian defector’s poisoning in a London hotel in 2006 is thoughtful as documentary, flawed as opera. Unsurprisingly, the Russian media has taken an interest in a piece that has a chorus of health workers chanting “Polonium!”, and a KGB boss, eerily sung by a countertenor (James Laing), who could just be the current Russian president. The subject is […]
2020-05-08 23:30:00
Alwyn conducts Alwyn and a Lyrita Batch
[…] PO Sir Adrian Boult Lennox Berkeley Piano Concerto Concerto for two Pianos David Wilde Garth Beckett Boyd McDonald London PO New Philharmonia Norman Del Mar Nicolas Braithwaite Granville BantockOmar KhayyamSarah Walker Anthony Rolfe Johnson Brian Rayner Cook BBC SO Norman Del Mar Lennox Berkeley Piano Sonata Piano Works Arthur Benjamin Etudes Improvisees Piano Works Colin Horsley Lamar Crowson Richard Rodney BennettPiano ConcertoFive StudiesCapriccioCommediea IVStephen KovacevichPhilip Jones EnsembleThea MusgraveLondon SOSir Alexander Gibson Harrison Birtwistle Nenia: The Death of Orpheus The Fields of Sorrow Verses for Ensemble Jane Manning The Matrix Alan Hacker London Sinfonietta David Atherton Alan Rawsthorne Lennox Berkeley Alan Bush Chamber Music The Music Group of London Aeolian Quartet Jack Brymer clarinet Alan Civil horn Arthur […]
2019-07-20 23:00:00
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn in Historical Recordings
Chamber MusicJoseph Haydn: String Quartet No 66 in G major op. 77,1 Quator Pro Arte, Recorded 1931Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in C minor, op.66 David Oistrakh, Recorded 1948Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F major, op.59,1 'Rasumovsky' Busch-Quartett, Recorded 1942Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio for Piano, Violin and Violoncello in D major, op.70,1 'Ghost' Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin, Recorded 19362 CDs, 51:39 + 64:21, Published 2002Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concertos No 1, 2, 3, 4Dennis Brain, horn Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan Recorded 1953 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet in E flat for piano & wind instruments K452 Colin Horsley, piano Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble:Recorded 195477:26, Published 1997 TRACKLISTChamber MusicJoseph Haydn - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Ludwig van BeethovenCD 1 […]
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