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2023-11-10 10:23:00
The Christmas Gap
Polyphony, Stephen Layton, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Photo: Simon van Boxtel)The week running up to Christmas is often a time when we look forward to catching some serious music in a loosely Christmas theme, whether it be Messiah or the Christmas Oratorio or perhaps Bach's Christmas Magnificat or some other imaginative programme exploring Christmas past. But something seems to have happened to the programming during the week before Christmas this year. Most of the serious programming seems to be earlier in the month on from Monday 18th, there are carols galore, plenty of Christmas programmes and a few presenting the serious side Christmas carols, but beyond that is rather slim pickings.If you want a large scale oratorio, then it seems to be St John's Smith Square where the annual presentations of Handel and Bach as part of the Christmas Festival remain in place, and also at St John's you can catch the […]
2023-11-02 07:34:00
St John's Smith Square's Christmas Festival is backHoward Blake's The Snowman, Salmone Rossi & A Baroque Hanukkah, Gabriel Jackson's The Christmas Story, Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio and more: St John's Smith Square's Christmas Festival is back next month for the 38th festival, from 9 to 23 December 2023. As a prelude to the festival, London Concert Choir joins Southbank Sinfonia and conductor Mark Forkgen for a programme of Schubert and Mendelssohn ending with his unfinished oratorio Christus on 8 December 2023.Gabriel Jackson's The Christmas Story is premiered by the Choir and Girl Choristers of Merton College, conducted by Benjamin Nicholas with an instrumental ensemble using a libretto devised by Simon Jones, Chaplain of Merton, and including Merton poets. (9/12/2023). There is a film screening of The Snowman with Howard Blake's score played live by Southbank Sinfonia (10/12/2023). Samuel Ali performs Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur (14/12/2023).The Vache Baroque Singers and La Vaghezza will be […]
2022-08-04 06:23:00
A Vaughan Williams Anthology: Tony Cooper reviews Naxos' eight-disc box set
[…] of New York, cond. Salvatore di Vittorio. 6. Phantasy Quintet / String Quartets Nos.1 & 2. Maggini String Quartet, Garfield Jackson (viola). 7. Willow-Wood (a cantata for baritone and orchestra) / The Sons of Light / Toward the Unknown Region / Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus. Roderick Williams (baritone). Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, cond. David Lloyd-Jones. 8. Sacred Choral Music including Mass in G minor. The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, James McVinnie and Ashok Gupta (organ), cond. Timothy Brown. As a major 20th-century symphonist, Vaughan Williams - one of England’s most illustrious and well-respected composers and a well-known figure in Norwich attending meetings of the Norfolk & Norwich Triennial Festival in the 1930s - is represented in NAXOS’ 8-cd box-set anthology (marking the RVW 150 celebrations of 2022) by four critically acclaimed recordings of his nine symphonies comprising No.1 (A […]
2022-03-16 10:52:37
Two strongly contrasting yet major figures from 20th century Hungary, György Ligeti and Zoltán Kodály
Lux Aeterna - choral music by György Ligeti and Zoltán Kodály; Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Marcus Creed; Our Recordings Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 16 March 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The striking juxtaposition of two major 20th century Hungarian voices, completely different in style but arising from the same background, in stunning performancesYou don't tend to think of György Ligeti and Zoltán Kodály though both were Hungarian and effectively came from the same musical background. A striking new recording, Lux Aeterna, from Marcus Creed and the Danish National Vocal Ensemble on Our Recordings places music by the two composers side by side with Kodály's Matra Pictures and two shorter pieces alongside Ligeti's Lux Aeterna and Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin plus works that he wrote whilst still in Hungary in the 1950s. Kodály was amongst Ligeti's teachers at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, afterwards Kodály tried to […]
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