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2024-03-26 08:10:00
A radical new look: full line-up for Nevill Holt's 2024 festival
The full line-up for the radical new 2024 Nevill Holt Festival has now been announced. Running from 1 to 26 June 2024, guest festival director James Dacre's programme features opera, classical music, jazz and contemporary, alongside visual arts, talks and literature.This is a very different style of festival to previously, instead of two main operas there is a wide mix of events intended to tempt people into repeat visits. Also, the wider estate is more involved with an outdoor art exhibition, come for a concert and stay for Anthony Caro's sculpture.The musical events place quite a reliance on established artists and I miss a young artists strand, though casting for the opera has not yet been announced.Opera remains a strong strand in the festival, there will be six performances of Melly Still's new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, with Finnegan Downie Dear conducting Britten Sinfonia. And Finnegan Downie Dear returns […]
2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] glory with nine days of wonderful events. ‘From big concerts and services to talks and school workshops, there’s surely something for everyone wrapped up in this festival. We sincerely hope people from all walks of life will come along to hear some incredible music being played on Norwich Cathedral’s magnificent instrument.’ Mr Grote further added: ‘The festival week will also bring internationally-renowned organists to Norwich as well as world-class ensembles such as the BBC Singers and the Britten Sinfonia. ‘The opening concert, therefore, sees Norwich Cathedral Choir join forces with the neighbouring choirs of Ely and Peterborough cathedrals to deliver a Three Choirs Special in what promises a thrilling and telling programme of choral favourites. There’ll also be a school’s programme running throughout the week, a family-friendly ‘Battle of the Organs’ concert and a silent movie complete with ‘live’ organ accompaniment. All these events will run alongside our daily schedule of choral services, […]
2024-03-19 09:58:00
[…] Here we had a piece that began with a sense of haunted magic, really leaning into the horn's romantic links. As the music became more intense and strenuous, there were elements of rapture and triumph, until everything died. The use of a mute brought a new colour to the opening material's sense of magic.]Ben Goldscheider will be returning to Huw Watkins' music in April when he gives the world premiere of Huw Watkins' Horn Concerto with Britten Sinfonia at Saffron Hall (7 April 2024) and Barbican (9 April 2024), see Britten Sinfonia's website for details.]York Bowen counted the horn as one of his instruments and he left a small but important body of work for it, mostly written for father and son horn players, Aubrey and Dennis Brain. Dennis Brain would give the premiere of the Concerto for Horn, Strings and Timpani, Opus 150, but Aubrey Brain premiered the Sonata in […]
2024-02-29 07:43:00
One of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich comes round in the merry month of May.
[…] Collon, will return to the festival for the first time in seven years performing Beethoven’s third symphony, one of the composer’s most celebrated works marking the beginning of his innovative ‘middle period’. As is their trademark, they’ll be performing the ‘Eroica’ entirely from memory in an intimate concert setting in Norwich Cathedral - Saturday 11th May. The festival’s also proud to be welcoming back one of the leading champions of the harpsichord, Mahan Esfahani, joining the Britten Sinfonia to complete their season-long Bach collaboration at St Peter Mancroft Church - Saturday, 25th May. Alongside the complete cycle of Bach’s uplifting and era-defining keyboard concertos, they’ll also perform a programme of Bach’s second orchestral suite (which doubles as a flute concerto) as well as the fifth Brandenburg Concerto in which they’ll be joined by violinist, Jacqueline Shave, a person who’s no stranger to Norwich audiences through her long association with the Britten […]
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