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2024-03-06 12:30:00
Hercules, Komische Oper, 3 March 2024
[…] fared better since its modern stage revival in Cambridge in 1925. Handel never intended it to be staged, though the librettist (William Congreve) and original composer (John Eccles) had. It perhaps comes closest to Hercules, whose first staging was also in 1925 – the very beginning of the modern Handel revival – though in Münster. Whilst perhaps not the most compelling, dramatically, of all Handel’s works, Hercules, to a libretto by the Anglican clergyman Thomas Broughton, is certainly not the least either. This new production from Berlin’s Komische Oper affords a valuable opportunity, certain shortcomings notwithstanding, for news audience to see and hear it for themselves—many doubtless for the first time, the present writer included. In a programme interview, Kosky tells how and why he has long found Handel’s oratorios, to which he reasonably assimilates Hercules, more compelling than his operas. Me too, though we seem to stand nowadays in […]
2023-10-31 15:57:47
This month, we mark the centenary of one of music’s most iconic figures. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Maria Callas, Ashutosh Khandekar examines those special qualities that set the Greek soprano apart from all others. Another feature that should make you tick is Misha Donat‘s profile of Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, the madcap inventor of the metronome and much besides. Elsewhere, Simon Heighes has a listen to the first-ever near-complete recording of Handel’s Messiah, made in 1906. And Tom Stewart learns how the Glyndebourne Academy is providing rare opportunities to enter the world of opera. Owen Mortimer finds out how the Symphony Orchestra of India is rapidly winning fans at home and abroad, and, for this month’s BBC Music Magazine interview, conductor Kirill Karabits talks to Rebecca Franks on the eve of his final season in Bournemouth. Simon Broughton is off to Budapest to get a look […]
2022-03-24 16:39:29
Bouncing back: Spitalfields Music 2022
[…] Dewachi come together with young people from our Neighbourhood Schools in Tower Hamlets and the Blackheath Morris Dancing Group to explore our need for ceremony. Nevertheless, she persisted features Her Ensemble, the UK's first women and non-binary orchestra in music by women including Dobrinka Tabakova, Leokadiya Kashperova, Grażyna Bacewicz, and Barbara Strozzi. Inner City Brass features a new work by Callum Au alongside music by Susan LaBarr, Schumann, Bach, Mogens Andresen, Øystein Baadsvik, & Bruce Broughton. Rex Lawson will bring his dazzling pianola skills to bear on Stravinsky's Rite of Spring along with a piece Stravinsky actually wrote for pianola. Not to be missed. There will be new work from Laura Bowler, a multi-media chamber piece Distance performed by soprano Juliet Bowler and Talea Ensemble. George Parris and the Carice Singers will be performing RVW's Mass in G minor alongside new works by Aileen Sweeney, Will Harmer, Claire Victoria Roberts, […]
2022-01-25 19:00:00
Barbican Hall, Milton Court Concert Hall The Music of Terezín, dir. Simon Broughton ‘The Theresienstadt Orchestra’ Hans Krása: Overture for Small Orchestra Pavel Haas: Study for String Orchestra Erwin Schulhoff: Symphony no.5 BBC Symphony OrchestraAlpesh Chauhan (conductor)‘Songs in Time of Distress’ Viktor Ullmann: Two Hebrew Pieces for choir; Songs of Comfort for low voice and string trio Gideon Klein: String Trio; Folk Songs for male chorus Silvie Bodorova: Terezín Ghetto Requiem for baritone and strong quartet: ‘Lacrimosa’ Pavel Haas: String Quartet no.2: ‘Wild Night’ Dieter Gogg, arr. Iain Farrington: Als ob; Theresienstadt, der schönste Stadt der Welt František Domažlický: Song without words for string quartet Ullmann: Yiddish Songs for choir; Der Kaiser von Atlantis: ‘Komm Tod, du unser werter Gast’ (arr. Farrington) Simon Wallfisch (baritone)Guildhall School MusiciansBBC SingersNicholas Chalmers (conductor)Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis, dir. Kenneth Richardson Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps Kaiser Overall – Thomas Johannes Mayer Loudspeaker […]
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