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2024-03-08 11:52:00
Sounds of Blossom: Kew Gardens' Spring festival offers a full sensory experience with collaboration with the Royal College of Music
Magnolia campbellii 'Pink tulip tree' © RBG KewKew Gardens' Spring festival, Sounds of Blossom, will see visitors not only enjoying the sights and smells of Spring blossom at the gardens but hearing sounds too, as as bespoke compositions emerge from blossom trees thanks to a new collaboration with the Royal College of Music.Working with students from the Royal College of Music, the festival will feature six bespoke commissions that celebrate Kew’s unique landscape in the spring, with recordings of music emerging from carefully chosen locations, including avenues of cherry blossom and vistas dotted with magnolias, offering the prospect of a complete sensory experience. There will be Spring and blossom-inspired music from six of the college's students, Daniel Musashi, Jasmine Morris, Tymon Zgorzelski, Lucy Holmes, Delyth Field, and Louis Enright.Kew Gardens' Sounds of Blossom festival runs from 23 March to 14 April. There will be blossom-inspired dishes in the cafes, and a series of free talks from […]
2024-02-06 07:24:00
Late romantic at Wigmore Hall: Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree in York Bowen and Rebecca Clarke
York Bowen by Elliott & Fry, bromide print (NPG x86430, © National Portrait Gallery, London)Enescu, Fauré, Kreisler, Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata, York Bowen: Viola Sonata No. 1; Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree; Wigmore Hall3 February 2024Youthful muscularity, engaging manner and sweetly singing tone in Timothy Ridout's exploration of early 20th century music for viola with a focus on those inspired by Lionel TertisFollowing on from Simon Callaghan's lunchtime concert performing Cyril Scott [see my review], the evening concert at Wigmore Hall on 3 February 2024 featured viola player Timothy Ridout and pianist Frank Dupree in a programme inspired by viola player Lionel Tertis that featured York Bowen's Viola Sonata no. 1 and Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata along with music by Enescu, Fauré and Fritz Kreisler.Born the same year as Pablo Casals (1876), Lionel Tertis devoted his life to opening composers' and performers' eyes to the viola as a solo instrument. A wide range […]
2024-01-22 09:15:00
UK-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, offers a preview of Northern Opera Group’s 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival which includes a brand-new opera on Sherlock Holmes.
Running from 17 August to 8 September 2024, the 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival, programmed by Northern Opera Group, offers audiences a blend of world premières alongside exciting collaborations designed for the whole community. The festival’s renowned for combining new productions of rare operas peppered by a wide programme of talks, panel discussions, workshops and other events across the late August Bank Holiday weekend. For instance, the 2023 festival featured the UK première of Robert Rodriguez’ opera Frida alongside a collaboration with the Northern School of Contemporary Dance on Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires in a healthy and inspiring four-week programme of opera and music inspired by Latin America. Other recent productions include Charles Villiers Stanford’s Much Ado About Nothing (2019) and Handel’s Silla (2022). And reaching out to communities in Leeds and Bradford, Northern Opera Group is committed in enabling people of all ages and abilities to take part in opera […]
2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
Ralph Vaughan Williams:Incidental Music to a satirical production of Aristophanes' comedy, The Wasps1.01 - 1.13 Overture and Act One [44'07]2.01 - 2.15 Act Two and Act Three [61'30]Henry Goodman- narrator, Hallé Choir and Orchestra conducted by Mark ElderHallé CD HLD 7510 [recorded July 2005; issued 2008][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: The Albert Halls, Bolton, UKRecording engineer: Simon Eadon; Producer: Andrew KeenerFlowers of the Field:01 George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad. Rhapsody for Orchestra [10'22]02 - 05 Gerald Finzi (edited & completed C. Alexander): Requiem da Camera ^ [22'29]06 Ivor Gurney (edited & orchestrated P. Lancaster): The Trumpet # [5'45]Ralph Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy * [22'01]Jeremy Irons- speaker*, Roderick Williams- baritone^, City of London Chorus^*#, London Mozart Players conducted by Hilary Davan WettonNaxos 8.573426 [recorded July 2014; issued 2014][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Henry Wood Hall, LondonRecording engineer: Mike Clements; Producer: Andrew WaltonRagtimes & […]
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