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2024-02-13 07:41:00
Celebrating 75 years: London Mozart Players in wonderful form for all-Mozart programme at Fairfield Halls plus the launch of 100 Faces of Croydon
[…] 'new' finale really gave the soloist focus with unaccompanied sections. Bartlett brought a playfully characterful charm to the music, crisp strength contrasting with delicacy.We ended with the vivid excitement of the final movement of the symphony, the orchestra displaying style and presence, and a continued sense of engagement. Throughout the evening, between the pieces there were short video messages wishing the orchestra well, including from Felicity Lott, who worked extensively with the orchestra, and Jane Glover, who was music director from 1984 to 1991.Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogPersonal choice: Love's Lasting Power, debut disc of Schubert lieder from duo Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale on Delphian - record reviewSomething a little bit special: David Butt Philip & friends gala for St Paul's Opera in Clapham - concert reviewA Star Next to the […]
2024-01-05 08:28:00
The Dartington International Summer School Foundation creates new Music Summer School & Festival at Gresham's School in Norfolk
The chapel at Gresham's SchoolWith the collapse of the Summer School at Dartington, the Dartington International Summer School Foundation, a charity which was supported the Summer School since 1976, has created a new incarnation in Norfolk.The Music Summer School and Festival will run at Gresham's School in Norfolk from 27 July to 10 August 2024 with a wide range of participatory courses along with a full programme of concerts, talks and events. Courses include choral singing and vocal music; orchestras and ensembles; individual instrumental and vocal classes and workshops; medieval, renaissance and baroque ensembles; jazz and improvisation; wind band and string ensemble; chamber music; and composition.Conductor Andrew Griffiths will be working on Bach's St John Passion, and conductor Jane Glover works in Mozart's Requiem. There will be courses directed by ensembles Stile Antico and the Brook Street Band, harpsichordists Steven Devine and Skip Sempé, composers Rolf Hind and Stephen Montague, tenor James Gilchrist, pianist Anna Tilbrook, […]
2023-12-18 19:50:33
SCRUTINY | The TSO & Dame Jane Glover’s Messiah Is Musical Storytelling At Its Very Best
From the outset, Dame Glover offered a richly detailed rendering of the score, in a Messiah that was also about very emotional storytelling.
2023-11-09 08:17:00
Remembering Keel Watson
[…] of Puccini's Tosca with Gwenneth-Ann Rand and Ronald Samm [see my review] and the last role we saw him in was also in the comic vein, a wonderfully pointed (and political) Private Willis in Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe at English National Opera last month [see my review], whilst in 2018 he managed to dominate proceedings as the Usher in Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury in a semi-staged performance at Alexandra Palace at the BBC Proms with Jane Glover conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra [see my review]. He was also a laid-back Mars in Emma Rice's heavy-handed version of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld with ENO in 2019 [see my review]Verdi: Don Carlo - Fulham Opera 2018 (Photo Robert Workman)But Keel's finest achievement must surely be his wonderful sequence of roles for Fulham Opera (now Regents Opera). I missed his Dutchman and Falstaff (in 2015), but his Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger (2019), one of […]
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