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Metamorfosi: York Early Music Festival 2024
The York Early Music Festival was established in 1977 to celebrate music from the medieval to the baroque within an array of historic venues across the city of York. The festival is administered by the National Centre for Early Music (NCEM). This year's York Early Music Festival, which runs from 6 to 13 July 2024, has the title Metamorfosi and it takes the idea of musical metamorphosis and composers' borrowing, from each other and themselves, as its main theme.The festival's theme is explored in a selection of concerts including The Sixteen in a programme of Lassus and Josquin highlighting the masters' borrowings, and Josquin and his influence is also the theme of The Gesualdo Six's concert. Steven Devine directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in music by Bach and Telemann inspired by those evenings at Zimmerman's Kaffeehaus, where of course Bach famously reused material from earlier in his career. We […]
2024-04-10 09:31:00
Dramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court
[…] contrasts too, the quiet and crisp versus the vivid and strong. This was high energy Mozart, played as if their life depended on it, with terrific discipline and unanimity of purpose. Frankly, it wasn't quite to my taste but you could not help but admire the performance and the musicianship that went into it.Britten Sinfonia returns to Milton Court on 11 May when they are joined by The Marrian Consort for a programme that mixes Gesualdo, Lusitano and Binchois with Brett Dean and Lisa Illean. Then in June the ensemble's Bach concerto odyssey with Mahan Esfahani continues.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 blogA 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 […]
2024-03-26 04:09:41
[…] the interpreter of the music of the Second Viennese School, and even more so as the performer of the contemporary music, much of it written by his friends: Luigi Nono, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Maderna, and many other. He will be sorely missed. Speaking of Pierre Boulez: his anniversary is this week as well: he was born on March 26th of 1925. Also this week: Franz Joseph Haydn, born March 31st of 1732; Carlo Gesualdo – on March 30th of 1556; Johann Adolph Hasse, onMarch 25 of 1699; and one of our favorite composers of the 20th century, Béla Bartók, on March 25th of 1881.
South Florida Classical Review
2024-02-16 17:13:00
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