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German singer, harpsichordist and composer (1757-1817)
- piano, voice
- soprano
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2023-09-26 08:55:00
BBC Young Composer 2023 winners announced
One of the BBC Young Composer DaysBBC Young Composer was founded in 1998 and has since then offered a platform for young composers across the UK with alumni including Shiva Feshareki, Kate Whitley, Alissa Firsova, Mark Simpson, Tom Harrold, and Duncan Ward. The results for the 2023 BBC Young Composer have been announced with winners selected from over 350 applications from across the UK, with genres spanning song writing, film/ soundtrack music, choral, solo instrument, jazz, rock, pop, electronic and contemporary. Each composition was assessed on its compositional idea, creativity and originality, and was judged anonymously. The judging panel of composers and musicians included Lloyd Coleman, Shiva Feshareki, Abimaro Gunnell, Gavin Higgins, Cassie Kinoshi, Eímear Noone, as well as industry experts Katie Tearle and David Pickard, Director of the BBC PromsThe six winners are:Lower Junior Category (age 12-14)Atharv Gupta – Demain, Dès L'AubeAvram Harris – Across the Void Upper Junior Category (age […]
2023-07-17 08:03:00
Médée, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 16 July 2023
Médée – Sonya Yoncheva Jason – Charles Castronovo Créon – Peter Schöne Dircé – Slavá Zámečníková Néris – Marina Prudenskaya Dircé’s Handmaidens – Regina Koncz, Maria Hegele Children of Jason and Médée – Fritz Bachmann, Nathan Kamsu Andrea Breth (director)Martin Zehetgruber (set designs)Carla Teti (costumes)Olaf Freese (lighting)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright)Staatskapelle BerlinOksana Lyniv (conductor)Images: Bernd Uhlig Cherubini’s best-known and surely greatest opera, Médée, continues to hover on the edge of the repertory. It had a high-profile outing in Salzburg in 2019, about which production if not performance the less said the better. The previous year, Andrea Breth’s staging came to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. I missed it then, but caught (just) its first revival in February 2020, shortly before theatres closed for longer than any of us ever imagined. Now it receives its second revival and will feature next season too. I caught it just in time, making […]
2022-04-21 05:10:00
Recent Releases, No. 28
By Karl W. NehringJóhannsson: Drone Mass. One Is True; Two Is Apocryphal; Triptych in Mass; To Fold & Remain Dormant; Diving Objects; The Low Drone of Circulating Blood, Diminishes with Time; Moral Vacuums; Take the Night Air; The Mountain View, The Majesty of the Snow-clad Peaks, From a Place of Contemplation And Reflection. Paul Hiller, conductor; American Contemporary Music Ensemble (Clarice Jensen, artistic director and cello; Ben Russell, violin; Laura Lutzke, violin; Caleb Burhans, viola); Theatre of Voices (Else Torp, Kate Macoboy, Signe Asmussen, Iris Oja, Paul Bentley-Angell, Jakob Skjoldborg, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Steffen Bruun). Deutsche Grammophon 483 7418.Here we have another recording of music from the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannson (1987-2018), whose compositions have been reviewed several times before in Classical Candor. Jóhannson was a composer with a rich imagination who was fascinated with sounds, so you never quite knew what he might come up with next. As […]
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