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2024-04-22 08:37:00
[…] Her ‘Or sai chi l’onore’ was as electrifying as it should be, and Ottavio’s soaringly heartfelt ‘Dalla sua pace’ an exquisite response. Hannah O’Brien’s Donna Elvira was powerful, nuanced and persuasive – the performance of a seasoned pro; I was astonished to discover that she is a recent alumna of the RNCM. The audience favourites, though, are both young singers indeed: Harrison Chéné-Gration (Masetto) and Tilly Goodwin (Zerlina) are allegedly third-year students at the Royal Academy of Music. These are character parts, and they made the most of them – Chéné-Gration’s flush-faced, confused young-bullock of a Masetto the perfect foil for Goodwin’s eyelash-batting, fausse-ingénue of a Zerlina. They showed how for the next generation of performers, the acting is as important as the singing; they also proved that the next generation has the right idea. William Stevens’ Commendatore was poised, measured and just the right amount of menacing, and the […]
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
[…] 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 both ends, presenting all of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and performing Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 (not in the same programme!).The London Sinfonietta is celebrating Schoenberg's 150th anniversary, with Jonathan Berman conducting the Ode to Napoleon (no, I've never heard that live either) and Chamber Symphony. They will be joined by the Royal Academy of Music's Manson Ensemble for a performance of Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett. The Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today will feature conductor Chloe Rooke and soprano Ella Taylor in Saariaho’s Semafor and Hans Abrahmsen’s Two Inger Christensen Songs. The London Philharmonic Orchestra's season will include Evan Williams’ Dead White Man Music (Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble), and Sarod player Amjad Ali Khan performs his own concerto Samaagam alongside a new overture by Reena Esmail and […]
2024-04-17 06:11:00
A City Full of Stories: Anna Phillips on her work with Academy of St Martin in the Fields' SoundWalk
Illustrations of SoundWalk by Ruby WrightAnna Phillips is a harpist who is currently studying for a Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music. She had the opportunity to take part in the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields' SoundWalk project as part of an elective with the Open Academy Department at the Royal Academy of Music.The Connection at St. Martin’s is a day centre that supports homeless people to help rebuild their lives, through helping them on their way out of homelessness and through artistic programmes. The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (ASMF) chamber orchestra has been running music workshops with homeless people in various venues across London, including The Connection, for 25 years. Jackie Walduck, who leads these workshops, is also a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music. She has been leading the Academy’s partnership with this initiative, which is set to continue into the […]
2024-04-06 08:42:00
Spell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells
[…] also learning the piano, and her teacher learned that a good way to keep her attention was to let her bring along the things that she had written down, and also encourage her to improvise. By her early teenage years, she realised that she liked improvising and composing.She studied music at Cambridge University, doing a general music degree but focusing on composition. She counts her teachers as significant influences, Oliver Knussen and, at the Royal Academy of Music, the late Simon Bainbridge. She names Olivier Messiaen as her favourite composer, but also mentions George Crumb for his celestial vision of the world, though she admits that she is not as impractical or brave as he is. She also admires great melodists like Mozart and Schubert, and she always ends up going back to Bach, doodling through Bach's chorales to get her brain in order.When I ask about heroes, she comments […]
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