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2024-05-06 03:30:00
Britten Orchestral Works (CD Review)
by Ryan RossSinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20; Spring Symphony, Op. 44; The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34. Elizabeth Watts, soprano; Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano; Allan Clayton, tenor; Tiffin Boys’ Choir, Tiffin Children’s Chorus; The Tiffin Girls’ School Choir; London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor. LSO Live LSO0830I’ll begin with a confession (or disclosure, if you like): I’m an imperfect Simon Rattle-ite. I think the fawning nature with which the British press in particular treats him is overblown and under-earned. He may be British music’s “most powerful champion” (in the words of Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph, 11 January 2021), at least in a manner of speaking. But I find that he promotes some British composers (the edgier ones) much more enthusiastically than others, and he tends to ignore or barely touch works by worthy figures who desperately need high-profile advocacy. Rattle has only partially embraced Ralph Vaughan Williams (where is his complete […]
2024-05-03 11:20:17
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, CardiffWilliams more than rose to the challenge of Schumann’s Kreisleriana and the Op 11 Sonata with playing of clarity and rigourThe Welsh pianist
2024-04-30 08:50:00
14 premieres, music in iconic spaces, the Cries of London: Spitalfields Music Festival 2024
Spitalfields Music Festival returns with events in iconic spaces across East London from 27 June to 10 July 2024. The festival opens with soprano Nardus Williams and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny in In the Shadow of the Tower, exploring East London's cosmopolitan history in a recital at St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London. The concert features a new work by Roderick Williams, one of 14 premieres being presented at this year's festival. And we return to St Peter ad Vincula for Sing Joyfully: Tudor and Jacobean Music for the Chapel Royal performed by Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London.The Carice Singers explore another aspect of London history with Cries of London at St Botolph without Bishopsgate, featuring Berio's Cries of London alongside music by Alexander Papp, Mary Offer, Robert Crehan, Effy Efthymiou, Alice Beckwith, and Anibal Vidal. Whilst the Gentle Author will be talking about the cries of London at St Botolph without Bishopsgate hall, […]
2024-04-26 10:15:00
David Pickard says farewell to the BBC Proms with 90 concerts across the UK including Bizet's Carmen, Julius Eastman's Symphony No. 2, Suk's Asrael Symphony and much more
[…] Night's Dream with Iestyn Davies and Lucy Crowe, conducted by Douglas Boyd.This year, 23 premieres and BBC commissions/co-commissions will be performed. Composers Thomas Ades, Anna Clyne, Sarah Class, Francisco Coll, Sarah Gibson, Dani Howard, Sir Karl Jenkins, Cassandra Miller, Ben Nobuto, Laura Poe, Steve Reich, Carlos Simon, Asteryth Sloane, Laura Poe, Elizabeth Kelly and Eric Whitacre each have a premiere or UK premiere. Hans Abrahamsen's Horn Concerto, Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. 2 and Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite will be performed in the UK for the first time. Sir Mark Elder marks his retirement from the Hallé with a performance of Sir James MacMillan's Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia. Other music by contemporary composers featured includes Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Cello Concerto, and pieces by Heiner Goebbels, Missy Mazzoli, Erkki-Sven Tüür.The First Night includes Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, with Isata Kanneh-Mason, and later on Benjamin Grosvenor is the soloist in Busoni's gargantuan Piano […]
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