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2024-04-16 06:36:00
The sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns
[…] [10:24]7. La Esfera (2021) [10:32]Roberta Michel, flute [3], Raissa Fahlman, clarinet [1, 3], Joenne Dumitrascu, violin [1, 3], Adrianne Munden-Dixon, violin [2, 5], Rocío Díaz de Cossío, cello [2], Wick Simmons, cello [3], Julia Henderson, cello [7], Corinne Penner, piano [1, 3, 4], Mayumi Tsuchida, piano [2, 5], Mikael Darmanie, piano [7], John Ling, vibraphone [3], David Bloom, conductor [3] Nu Quintet [6] (Kim Lewis, flute, Michael Dwinell, oboe, Kathryn Vetter, clarinet, Tylor Thomas, bassoon, Blair Hamrick, horn)Recorded by Nolan Thies at Bunker Studio, NYC on August 2022STRADIVARIUS STR 37292 1 CD 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 blogEnergy, discipline, & sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra & National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins - concert reviewNo boundaries or rules: Yorkshire-based Paradox Orchestra is reinventing the orchestral concert - interviewFull of […]
2024-03-05 09:02:00
A dynamic performance where singers & instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers: Scherzo Ensemble presents a danced version of Haydn's The Creation
A new danced version of Haydn's The Creation is being presented at New Hall Winchester and St John's Smith Square on 6 and 7 April 2024 by Scherzo Ensemble, and we are we are promised a dynamic performance where singers and instrumentalists actively participate in movement alongside the dancers!Matthew O'Keeffe conducts the Orpheus Sinfonia with soloists Anna Gregg and Sam Harris as Gabriel and Uriel, and Michael Temporal Darell and Caroline Blair as Adam and Eve. The staging is a collaboration with Welsh choreographer Osian Meilir Jones (currently artistic associate of the National Dance Company of Wales), and designer Jennifer GregoryScherzo Ensemble is a professional development platform for emerging singers, best known for managing Longhope Opera in Hampshire where they are performing Donizetti's Don Pasquale on 6 and 7 July 2024, (see the ensemble's website) Further information on Haydn's The Creation from TicketSource (Winchester) and St John's Smith Square's website,
2024-01-20 15:50:31
Parker Quartet shines brightly at Winter Chamber Music Fest
It seems as though Blair Milton only picks winners. The director […]
2023-09-05 16:46:00
Blair Coron's 'A Carrying Stream': a new collection of music and companion public exhibition
Blair Coron - Photo by Skaiste KlaniuteBlair Coron is a musician and poet from Springfield, a small village in Fife, Scotland. His quiet and intimate music blends modern classical, storytelling and traditional melodies, with themes of nature, people, time and place. Through music, words and cinematography, Coron's primary intention is to create enchanting atmospheres that sets course for introspection and connection to the landscapes surrounding us. His debut album was On The Nature of Things and his second was Cairn a celebration of Scottish heritage which had an accompanying film and was in collaboration with the School of Scottish Studies Archives and National Trust for Scotland. Cairn included new music set to archival interviews of those living in the Highlands and Islands during the early 20th century discussing local legends, childhood reminiscences and traditions long forgotten.Blair Coron's latest project is A Carrying Stream, a new collection of music and companion public exhibition from the Scottish […]
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