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Irish composer and teacher (1866-1926)
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2024-03-28 04:00:00
EASTER PASSION MUSIC 2024 [24 CDs]
[…] - soprano, Valentina Kutzarova - mezzo-soprano, Enea Scala - tenor, Alvaro Lozano, baritoneCoro La Stagione Armonica, Orchestra di Padova e del VenetoSergio Balestracci - directionRecorded 2011Label: CPO 777 698-2Download 1fichier gofile workuploadFerdinando Paër (1771-1839)Oratorio Il Santo SepolcroSimon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble & soloïstsFranz Hauk - directionRecorded September 2008Label: Naxos 8.572492Download 1fichier pixel workuploadHungarian Passion Musicof Liszt, Kodaly, Mosonyi, LisznyayLiszt Ferenc ChorusJan Raas - organPeter Scholcz - directionRecorded July 1993Label: Emergo EC 3964-2Download 1fichier pixel workuploadCharles Wood (1866-1926)St Mark PassionChoir of Jesus College, CambridgeJonathan Vaughn - organDaniel Hyde - directionRecorded January 2008Label: Naxos 8.570561Download 1fichier pixel workuploadGood Friday in JerusalemMedieval Byzantine chantsCapella RomanaAlexander Lingas - directionRecorded February 2013Label: CR 413Download 1fichier pixel workuploadJames MacMillan (b. 1959)Seven last Words from the CrossChoir Polyphony, James Vivian - organBritten SinfoniaStephen Layton - directionRecorded July 2003, April 2004Label: Hyperion SACD67460Download 1fichier pixel workupload [16-44] 259 MBDownload 1fichier pixel [SACD-iso] 3,73 GB
2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
James McVinnie performing at the Royal Festival Hall organ with Bedroom Community - Sept 2015The Royal Festival Hall organ is 70. Built from 1950–1954 to the specification of the London County Council's consultant, Ralph Downes, it was restored and re-configured by Harrison & Harrison as part of the hall's reconstruction during 2005-2007 and it was re-inaugurated on its 60th anniversary in March 2014. Now, to celebrate the instrument's 70th birthday, organist James McVinnie has a residency at the Southbank Centre featuring organ recitals including a wide range of repertoire as well as an appearance by the James McVinnie Ensemble.Though James had played the organ once before the rebuild, he was not familiar with it until he came to play it as part of the 2014 celebrations. But he spent two years as an organ scholar at St Albans Cathedral where the organ was also designed by Ralph Downes and built […]
2024-03-13 09:06:00
Contemporary music for St Patrick's Day: Belfast-based choir Cappella Caeciliana, musical director Matthew Quinn, makes its London debut
Cappella Caeciliana, musical director Matthew QuinnThe Belfast-based choir Cappella Caeciliana, musical director Matthew Quinn, makes its London debut on Saturday 16 March 2024 presenting a concert of Celtic music at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden on the eve of St Patrick’s Day. Celtic Celebration includes music by Sir James MacMillan and Charles Wood, along with rising stars Seàn Doherty, Eoghan Desmond. Áine Mallon and Anselm McDonnell [read my review of McDonnell's recent disc, Kraina]. The works by Doherty and McDonnell are London premieres, and Quicksilver by choir member Anita Mawhinney is also a London premiere. The programme also includes Philip Stopford's Ave Verum Corpus, composed when he was Director of Music at St Anne’s (Anglican) Cathedral in Belfast as a gift to St Peter’s, the city’s other Cathedral (Catholic), whilst the performance of Dublin-born Charles Villiers Stanford's The Blue Bird commemorates the centenary month of his death.Full details from St Paul's Church's website.
2024-03-11 07:32:00
Something astonishing: Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice for Welsh National Opera involved a collaboration with circus arts, NoFit State
[…] on strong form, on only in terms of the sophisticated malleable choral sound, but in the way they suggested character, whether as hotel guests, beach denizens or threatening inhabitants of Venice.The city itself was a merest suggestion, perhaps yet another manifestation of Aschenbach's imagination. Yet in the pit, Leo Hussain and the orchestra conjured magical sounds that complemented these wisps and fragments, creating a very real sound world, with a special mention to pianist Stephen Wood for all the expressive recitative.Britten: Death in Venice - Mark Le Brocq, Roderick Williams - Welsh National Opera (Photo Johann Persson)Dare we say it, for all its genius status, Britten's Death in Venice can have longeurs. The most successful production I have seen had an added ingredient into the mix. All those years back, the presence of Peter Pears in the title role made the whole mesmerising. At Garsington in 2015, Paul Curran's production added […]
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