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2024-02-26 14:02:00
A Vast Obscurity: SongEasel bringings song celebrations to South East London including Gabriel Fauré's centenary
From April to June 2024, Jocelyn Freeman's SongEasel is celebrating a whole clutch of anniversaries in a series of concerts across South East London featuring performers including Roderick Williams, Mark Padmore and Elin Manahan Thomas. Spreading her net widely, a delighting in discovering that the word 'obscurity' can mean a collective noun for a group of poets, pianist Jocelyn Freeman's series A Vast Obscurity brings together the 460th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death and 65th birthday of Dr. Joseph Spence, plus Gabriel Fauré's centenary.Things commence on 11 April at St. George the Martyr, Borough with baritone Roderick Williams, pianist Iain Burnside and double bass player Leon Bosch in The Land of Lost Content with music by Butterworth, Burleigh, Clarke, Beach, and McLachlan. Gabriel Fauré's centenary is celebrated with a pair of concerts, the 1893 version of the Requiem with Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Malachy Frame (baritone) and The Corbett Consort at St Mark's Church, Kennington on 11 May, then Gwilym […]
2023-12-31 09:22:00
2023 in record reviews: 17th century Venice as a gay haven, Dichterliebe Reimagined, Elgar on viola, Ethel Smyth's first operatic success
[…] musical rhetoric to bear on an historically informed account of Schumann's song cycle. Viola player Timothy Ridout seduced in his transcription of Elgar's Cello Concerto. Ethel Smyth's first major success, Der Wald, finally received its premiere recording in a terrific account from John Andrews and BBC Symphony Orchestra, making us ask, why the wait? A disc of songs by Franco Alfano from Anna Pirozzi and Emma Abbate revealed a distinctive voice and richly rewarding sound-world.Jocelyn Freeman and friends created a compelling programme of Pushkin-related music Britten, Shostakovich and Prokofiev, whilst Peter Jablonski and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra explored Grażyna Bacewicz's piano concertos.Contemporary music included the stunning sound world of Russian-trained Estonian composer, Galina Grigorjeva's music for male-voice choir, Arne Nordheim's seductive The Tempest, Suite from the Ballet, and Jonathan Dove's intense In Exile. The Engegård Quartet continued their exploration of Olli Mustonen's chamber music with the terrific, atmospheric pairing of […]
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2023-11-14 18:31:58
Harmony in Leadership: A Conversation with Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood CBE has not only shaped the landscape of classical music but has transformed the education narrative for over 35 years. Currently serving as the 14th Principal of the Royal Academy of Music since 2008, his journey has been marked by an unwavering commitment to education, coupled with multifaceted contributions as a recording producer, freelance trumpet player, writer, and broadcaster. Jonathan has been instrumental in launching pioneering programs and fostering international relationships, including a 20-year collaboration with The […] The post appeared first on Serenade.
2023-08-07 14:34:14
Chaminade and Jolivet, 2023
[…] that term means when applied to music – it would’ve never been used by our contemporaries while discussing the music of Jennifer Higdon, Shulamit Ran, Libby Larsen, or Augusta Read Thomas. We just don’t find the Koncertstück very interesting – it has lots of trills in the style of the worst of Liszt and not much real musical material. (In this recording James Johnson plays the piano, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Paul Freeman). Chaminade’s music became popular not only in her native France but also in England and the US in the 1890s, and that continued for another 20 years after which the interest in her music practically disappeared – her salon pieces clearly became obsolete. Chaminade lived till 1944, the last years in relative obscurity. She composed around 400 short piano pieces and songs, some of which are not without their charm. Here Anne Sofie von […]
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