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2023-07-06 23:07:00
Wigmore HallMass for 4 voices, with the Propers for the Feast of Easter Day Mass for 3 voices, with the Propers for the Feast of Corpus Christi Mass for 5 voices, with the Propers for the Feast of All Saints The Cardinall’s MusickAndrew Carwood (director) On 4 July 1623, William Byrd’s long, turbulent life ended in the Essex village of Stondon Massey, to which he had semi-retired almost thirty years earlier. Four hundred years later, the Wigmore Hall and The Cardinall’s Musick commemorated that death with performances of the three mass settings he wrote for private, recusant performance during that ‘retirement’, as published in three pamphlets printed by Thomas East between 1592 and 1595, supplemented by polyphonic settings of seasonal Propers from the two books of Gradualia (1605 and 1607). Knowing that these were probably the first English mass settings composed since the 1550s only added to the sense of […]
2021-07-29 08:19:00
Orchestras from the Czech Republic, Armenia, China, Russia and Hungary, and major UK choral ensembles: Cadogan Hall announces its orchestral and choral series for 2021/22
Cadogan Hall Cadogan Hall has announced the 2021/22 season for both its Zurich International Orchestra Series and Choral at Cadogan, featuring orchestras from the Czech Republic, Armenia, China, Russia and Hungary and four UK choirs, the Tallis Scholars, the Cardinall's Musick, Voces8 and The Sixteen. The opening concert of the orchestral season gives us a chance to hear a Czech orchestra in an all-Czech programme when Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Brno Philharmonic in Janacek's Taras Bulba, Korngold's Violin Concerto (with Chloe Hanslip) and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9. Korngold, whilst being thought of as Austrian, was in fact born in Brno. One of the interesting things about the season is the way the orchestras often play music by their countrymen. So the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by its chief conductor Sergey Smbatyan, is bringing Khachaturan's Masquerade Suite plus music by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. The China Symphony Orchestra (of Shenzhen), […]
2021-02-27 12:30:24
Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon; live streamThe Cardinall’s Musick, Rachel Podger, Adrian Brendel and more shone in this year’s dynamic online programme of all things Bach Sound trumpets, bang drums. Concerts and festivals, the real thing, are promised from mid-May – a prospect so remote these past months that every live online musical offering has been freighted with extra worth. Take Bath’s annual Mozart and Bach weekends, highlights of the low point of a low year. When November’s Mozart event was hastily, but skilfully, scrambled online, it seemed inconceivable we’d be in the same position when Bach’s turn came this month. Yet we were. Last weekend, four small-scale programmes by leading musicians had all the intimacy we expect from this expertly honed series. Concerts took place nearby at Wiltshire Music Centre – not as glamorous as the Bath Assembly Rooms but handsome, and equipped for broadcast. The named composer is the […]
2021-02-21 11:25:54
A Life On-Line: the 'wrong' Xerxes, RVW in Australia, Ash Wednesday at Wigmore Hall, and Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Richard Tognetti and Australian Chamber Orchestra at Sydney Town Hall (ACO StudioCasts) When Puccini announced his intention of writing an opera based on the story of Manon Lescaut, this caused some controversy because Massenet's opera, based on the same source, was already popular. This sort of overlap in subject matter, somewhat controversial in the late 19th and 20th centuries, was an everyday occurrence during the Baroque era. Some of Metastasio's librettos seem to have been reused 1000s of times, and librettos would be rewritten and reworked over time. A number of Handel's operas are based on 17th-century Venetian librettos (he seems to have had a fondness for this style of opera), though with the comic business and subsidiary action removed. In 1738, Handel presented his opera Serse; it wasn't a success. Based on a libretto originally written in the mid-17th century, Handel kept in a comic character and the […]
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