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Czech classical era composer and double bass player (1746-1792)
- double bass
- classical music, liturgical music
- Kingdom of Bohemia, Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- composer, conductor, double-bassist
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2024-03-28
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2024-02-01 07:43:00
Being themselves: the young artists of the National Opera Studio in Simple Gifts, a programme of song from across the globe at Wigmore Hall
[…] 1951) setting a Welsh text by the composer's Father, the poet T. Glynne Davies. A slow, rather romantic piece where Jenkins and Swindells created a nice sense of atmosphere. Jenkins showed a fine lyric tenor voice in a big-boned performance that moved to a vibrant climax but ended with finely controlled, ravishing head-voice. Swindells then accompanied Heming Li (Chinese) in A Song by Chinese composer Rui Zhang (1920-2016) which intriguingly set a Chinese translation of Christina Rosetti's poem 'When I am dead my dearest'. Late romantic in style, it began almost on a monotone enlivened by short motifs that developed into a romantic climax, admirably projected by Li.Camilla Seale and Kvam performed Debussy's Noel des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison. Seale has a lovely warm mezzo-soprano voice and projected the song with a great sense of character and urgency. There was an underlying fierceness and commitment to her performance (it […]
2022-07-02 08:35:08
New ways of working: composer Andrew Chen has two contrasting pieces at this year's Cheltenham Music Festival
[…] he has a different approach. Merton College Choir has a repertoire which is often liturgical whilst the premiere takes place in the context of a classical mix-tape event at Gloucester Cathedral, so he has taken a more amicable approach to the writing. And, of course, he is also bound by the limitations of the number of voices (SSATTB). The text was chosen by Andrew and Benjamin Nicholas, director of the choir, and is a Christina Rosetti poem, He and She. Andrew finds her interesting as for him, her poems maintain a modern relevancy. She often holds the subject matter at arm's length, there is an ambiguity to the writing and things are never too explicit. The work's title is Should One of Us Remember, which comes from the incipit of the poem. It is a lament, a reflection on the meaning of one person to another, and how the relationship changes over […]
2022-05-01 10:48:32
A list of my songs
[…] let out of their confinement in my music cabinet. If anyone is interested further, I am always happy to provide details. Song Cycles Songs of Love and Loss: Song Cycle for mezzo-soprano, clarinet and piano Words by Lord Alfred Douglas, Helen Waddell, Robert Hugill and M.V. Lively Let this Harvest pass, O Love Twelve duets for alto and guitar, words by Carl Cook Quickening (1998) Song cycle to poems by Christina Rosetti Soprano, violin and piano (or mezzo-soprano, viola and piano) For David, on his birthday (2004) Seven songs setting poems by Carl Cook from 'Postscripts' Tenor (or Baritone) & Piano For David, on his birthday VII was a finalist in the English Poetry and Song Society's Diamond Songs competition Love Remembered (2007) Song cycle for tenor and piano to poems by Constantine Cavafy Four Songs to Texts by […]
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