Agnes Tyrrell News
Czech composer and pianist
- piano
- classical music, vocal music, opera
- Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary
- pianist, composer
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2020-10-07 21:25:40
OCTOBER 7, 2020, VANCOUVER, B.C. – Vancouver Opera is excited to open their 2020–2021 digital season with the powerful lyrical tragedy La Voix humaine by Francis Poulenc. The first digital work for Vancouver Opera is led by an all-female, all-Canadian trio: director Rachel Peake with soloist Mireille Lebel and Music Director Kinza Tyrrell. “Our launch [...]
2019-12-19 00:00:00
Janacek -Jenufa -Bohumil Gregor
[…] many more Janacek recordings to come from Czechoslovakia, and perhaps served to encourage Decca to their superb series under Sir Charles Mackerras. This set is now something of a period piece, and that unfortunately extends to a less than distinguished recording, with a good deal of the detail obscure. There has also been substantial scholarly work on the score done since then to clarify and restore much: the issues are set out by John Tyrrell in his notes to the Decca recording. That must remain, for the foreseeable future, the version to recommend. But it should not be overlooked that the HMV/Supraphon did much to draw attention to Janacek's greatness as an opera composer, for many who had had little opportunity to discover this masterpiece in any other way. It was also a fine performance that included some of the greatest Czech singers of the day in roles they […]
2019-07-19 09:04:00
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare
[…] from beyond our personal comfort zone as 'decidedly mediocre and banal' is unhelpful and dangerous. Others take a more enlightened position: for instance I learned recently that a longtime Overgrown Path reader is both devoted to the music of Edmund Rubbra and also a big Pink Floyd fan. Transcending habitual responses and prejudices is the first step to seeing the big picture and seeing the big audience. As is explained by the psychotherapist Ivan Tyrrell in his memoir about about the non-sectarian Sufi teacher Idries Shah*: One thing [Idries Shah] taught was that we only learn something new when our expectations aren't fulfilled, that is to say, when something interrupts our habitual responses. It's only when we leave our comfort zone, involve ourselves in the world and make sufficient effort to understand what's happening to us that we really lean: an insight summed […]
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