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Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Charles Villiers Stanford)
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2024-04-20 08:34:00
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
[…] Sommer a delightful mini-drama, full of narrative charm. This story-telling continued with Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt which became a litany of delightful descriptions of different fish, with Gilchrist gleefully combining musical and visual story-telling. Rheinlegendchen was another charming story, with a lovely sway to the accompaniment, and we ended this group with Lob des hohen Verstandes where Gilchrist had great fun narrating and enacting the story.We then returned to 20th century England with Muriel Herbert, a composer who trained with Stanford during World War I but whose output decline on marriage. Renouncement was richly romantic and impassion, whilst The Lake of Innisfree was lyrical and flowing. To Daffodils was beautifully constructed with hints of classy salon music, something that applies to Roger Quilter too (the two knew each other, she was rather keen on him but Quilter, discreetly homosexual, did not reciprocate).We ended with four more Quilter songs. Now sleeps the crimson petal where Gilchrist made the performance all […]
2024-04-17 06:39:00
Southbank Centre's new season: Schoenberg's 150th, the OAE in Bruckner, Joyce Didonato in Berlioz, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim
[…] by Bach, Brahms and Beethoven in his Royal Festival Hall solo recital debut.Lawrence Power will continue his residency by joining forces with composer/soprano Heloise Werner and lutenist Sergio Bucheli, and Power is the soloist in the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg's Viola Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Manchester Collective continues its residency with collaborations with pianist extraordinaire Zubin Kanga and cellist phenomenon Abel Selacoe. Organist James McVinnie [see my recent interview with him] continues his residency with Stanford, Byrd, and Liszt on the RFH organ, and Bach on organ and piano.Daniel Barenboim will be conducting the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4, Chineke! perform music by Florence Price (the UK premiere of her Symphony No. 4!), Eleanor Alberga, Valerie Coleman and Brian Raphael Nabor, the London Symphony Orchestra pairs Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 with Schoenberg's A survivor in Warsaw, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will be burning the candle […]
2024-04-05 14:08:00
[…] this will likely cost me many hours of work on the other end. Not a good interest rate, but still genuinely appealing to the true procrastinator!Once again, after looking at this year's draft for the Easter Vigil leaflet, I knew I wanted something different for a slow/fast pair near the end of the service. The final hymn was to be We know that Christ is raised (#298 in The Hymnal 1982), sung to Charles V. Stanford's stirring tune ENGELBERG. So, before I even gave it much thought, I was signing on the dotted line to play a Prelude on Engelberg and a bit later a Fugue on Engelberg. All that was left was....well, the hard part of manufacturing notes.I'm actually not going to go into too much more detail here about these new pieces and am choosing not even to reveal much of the scores, in part because both feel […]
2024-03-26 08:31:00
Worcester 2024: Three Choirs Festival releases full festival line-up along with announcing a new composer development scheme
[…] Academy so that it best serves today’s early-career composers.Applications are encouraged from any composer in the early stages of their career who feels they would benefit from the project, and applicants do not need to have written for choral forces previously. Full details, including a contact for further information, can be found at the festival's website.The full line-up of the Summer festival was recently announced, so that alongside Elgar's The Kingdom, music commemorating 100 years since Stanford's death, Holst's early rarity The Cloud Messenger, premieres of two new festival commissions from Nathan James Dearden and Paul Mealor, and music inspired by the natural world including Bob Chilcott's The Angry Planet, and Sarah Kirkland Snyder's Mass for the Endangered, there is a packed daytime programme, including the Armonico Consort in The Forgotten Scarlatti, tributes to Steve Martland from the Heath Quartet and GBSR Duo, the Elias Quartet and Robert Plane, and a visit […]
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