Benjamin Britten News
English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976)
- piano
- opera, symphony, classical music
- United Kingdom
- conductor, composer, pianist, politician, choreographer
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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] - guest postingEnergy, 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 good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides - concert reviewA little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth - record reviewDramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court - concert reviewA lovely evocation of stillness and calm: Alastair Penman's Quietude on his Meadowbank Music label - record reviewBizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances - opera reviewSpell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells - interviewWest Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season […]
2024-04-20 08:34:00
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
[…] - guest postingEnergy, 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 good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides - concert reviewA little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth - record reviewDramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court - concert reviewA lovely evocation of stillness and calm: Alastair Penman's Quietude on his Meadowbank Music label - record reviewBizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances - opera reviewSpell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells - interviewWest Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season […]
2024-04-18 09:15:00
Engaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar
Leeds Lieder 2024 - Joseph Middleton, James Newby - Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book ClubMatyas Seiber, John Jacob Niles, Thomas Traill, Joseph Suder, Percy Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Ravel: Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques, Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen; James Newby, Joseph Middleton; Leeds Lieder & Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book Club17 April 2024A new collaboration sees Leeds Lieder at a cool café/bar with an engaging and beautifully sung programme of songs inspired by folk-musicA former fuel storage tank is not the usual venue for a song recital, but Hyde Park Book Club is no usual venue and last night's recital there (17 April 2024) by baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton was a collaboration between Leeds Lieder (of which Middleton is the artistic director) and Through the Noise, the organisation that promotes its concerts, noisenights, via a distinctive crowdfunding model. The recital was all of folk-inspired music, from Matyas […]
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
[…] 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 good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides - concert reviewA little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth - record reviewDramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court - concert reviewA lovely evocation of stillness and calm: Alastair Penman's Quietude on his Meadowbank Music label - record reviewBizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances - opera reviewSpell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells - interviewWest Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season […]
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