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2023-09-14 06:51:00
In celebratory mood, the Cambridge Music Festival notches up its 30th anniversary this year. East Anglian music writer, Tony Cooper, reports.
Takács String Quartet (Photo: Amanda Tipton)Cambridge Music Festival's autumn concert series (Sunday 17 October to Wednesday 15 November 2023) offers a carefully curated programme of exceptional and unusual performances showcasing everything from traditional Syrian music to classical and early music with performances taking place in some of Cambridge's most historic venues such as King's College Chapel and Trinity College Chapel. "In a city with so much music-making, Cambridge Music Festival stands apart for the exceptional quality and variety it brings" enthused festival director, Justin Lee. "Variety that takes one from JS Bach to Judith Weir and, indeed, to Syrian traditional music performed by a wide range of world-acclaimed artists including the Takács String Quartet, Angela Hewitt, the BBC Singers, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Maya Youssef." This year's 'opener' falls to the Takács String Quartet (Sunday 17 October at West Road Concert Hall) playing Haydn's String Quartet, Op.71 No.2 and […]
2023-07-28 00:00:00
Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford: Orchestral and Vocal Music (Adrian Boult, Piers Lane et al)
Hubert Parry:01 - 04 Symphony No. 5 in B minor [23'07]05 Blest Pair of Sirens * [10'55]06 Symphonic Variations [13'18]07 Elegy for Brahms [10'23]London Philharmonic Choir*, London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Adrian BoultEMI CDM565107-2 [recorded December 1966*, October and December 1978; this CD issued 1994][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet sourced from internet]Recording venue: No.1 Abbey Road Studio, LondonRecording engineer: Christopher Parker; Producer: Christopher Bishop01 - 03 Hubert Parry: Piano Concerto in F-sharp major (1880) [34'53]04 - 06 Charles Villiers Stanford: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G major, op.59 (1894) [38'10]Piers Lane- piano, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn BrabbinsHyperion CDA66820 [recorded September 1995; CD issued 1995][digital-download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: City Hall, Glasgow, ScotlandRecording engineer: Tony Faulkner; Producer: Andrew KeenerHubert Parry: The British Music Collection01 I was glad [7'24]02 Judith, Oratorio - Long Since in Egypt's Plenteous Land [4'27]03 Blest Pair of Sirens [10'44]04 […]
2021-12-23 19:20:19
Each year, the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, commissions an original song for its Christmas service, giving the composer an audience of around 100 million people.
2021-12-18 12:00:02
From an empty King’s College chapel to a treble duo with a cause, domestic Elizabethan music to the balm of vocals and kora, small-scale is beautiful As surely as the first cuckoo arrives in spring, so the first festive CD lands around mid-August. By usual standards this year’s Christmas heap is small, but quality is high. The collegiate choir offerings, thwarted by not being able to practise in lockdown, are mostly absent. An exception is those Nine Lessons and Carols stalwarts, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, directed by Daniel Hyde. Their In the Bleak Midwinter has a particular distinction: for once, the men and boys sing in a resonant empty chapel, without the acoustic muffle of a congregation. Grandeur is achieved by the organ, played by Matthew Martin. This is the choice for anyone who wants carols they recognise. A strong alternative is the recently formed adult Belfast Cathedral […]
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