Anthony Hedges News
English composer (1931-2019)
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2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
[…] Suite Op. 5 by Maurice Duruflé but as a curtain-raiser, assistant organist, Robbie Carroll, played a total of three pieces which concluded with a fine rendering of César Franck’s Choral no.2 in B minor. The Norwich Cathedral Organ rebuild project (Photo: Bill Smith / Norwich Cathedral)It was nice to see a couple of senior past members of Norwich Cathedral’s ministry team at Festal Evensong most notably Canon Jeremy Haselock and the Very Reverend Dr Jane Hedges who would, of course, have been instrumental in early talks about the restoration and rebuild of the organ. Currently, Associate Priest at Great St Bartholomew’s in the city of London, celebrating its 900th anniversary this year, Canon Haselock was appointed Canon Precentor of Norwich Cathedral in 1998 while acting as Vice-Dean from 2003 retiring in 2018 while Dr Jane Hedges (who gave a reading) served as Dean at Norwich from 2014 to 2022, the […]
2023-06-10 00:01:00
Teatro Real. Rossini's Il turco in Italia. June 3, 2023.
[…] the orchestra as well.Curtain Call. The two gentlemen in black in the middle are the choir director (left in photo) and the conductor. To their left is Selim, the their right are Fiorilla and Geronio. The woman at the right end (as seen in photo) is Zaida.The set is on the simple side. Basically we have two houses, one belongs to Geronio and Fiorilla, and another "general purpose" building. They move as the situations requires. Hedges in front also serve as props for the singers. For the boat scene they used what I can only describe as partially open books; if there is a hidden meaning, it escapes me.Nonetheless, we found the opera enjoyable. The availability of English surtitle certainly made things more understandable for us. The complex intertwining of the story lines would have otherwise not been able to sort out.I wasn't sure what Madrid would be like late […]
2022-05-19 05:07:00
Opalescent (CD review)
Andrew York: Hidden Realm of Light; Kevin Callahan: Alki Point; Michael Hedges: Aerial Boundaries; Phillip Houghton: Opals; Frederic Hand: Chorale; Robert Beaser: Chaconne; Tilman Hoppstock: Suite Transcendent; Houghton: Wave Radiance. Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (John Dearman, William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant, and Matthew Greif, guitars) LAGQ Records LAGQ 0322.By Karl W. Nehring The last time we encountered the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, they were playing a composition by the iconic jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, a review of which can be found here: https://classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2021/06/recent-releases-no.html. (By the way, in the “it’s a small world” department, the producer of Opalescent, Steve Rodby, was for many years the bassist for the Pat Metheny Group.) This new release, which marks the LAGQ’s 40th anniversary as a touring ensemble and is dedicated to the late Australian composer Phillip Houghton (1954-2018), two of whose compositions are included in this album. In fact, his composition Opals, which consists […]
2021-12-21 00:00:00
The British Light Music Collection 1 (Gavin Sutherland)
[…] - Overture [5'12]1.15. - 1.19. Richard Rodney Bennett: Little Suite [9'42]1.20. David Lyon: Joie de vivre - Overture [6'50]CD2: British Light Music Discoveries Vol.22.01 - 2.03. Malcolm Arnold: Little Suite No. 4, op.80a [7'34]2.04. Wiliam Blezard: The River [6'11]2.05. - 2.10. Adrian Cruft: Traditional Hornpipe Suite [7'04]2.11. Eric Fenby: Rossini on Ilkley moor - Overture [6'36]2.12. - 2.15. Raymond Warren: Wexford Bells Suite [11'33]2.16. Arthur Butterworth: The Path Across the Moors [6'42]2.17. - 2.19. Anthony Hedges: An Ayrshire Serenade [10'12]2.20. Paul Lewis: An English Overture [5'26]2.21. - 2.26. Philip Lane: Suite of Cotswold Folk Dances [11'47]Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Gavin Sutherland ASV Resonance CDRSB205 [Recorded April 1998 & June/September 1999; digital download released 2007][digital download; flacs, cover & inlay scans - booklets sourced from the internet] Recording venue: Whitfield Street Studios, LondonRecording engineer: Mike Ross-Trevor; Producer: Philip Lane These two recordings started the British Light Music Discoveries series […]
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