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2024-04-22 10:01:00
Holst 150, complete Shostakovich quartets, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer: Lichfield Festival 2024
[…] Year returns with the final taking place in the Cathedral. For younger audiences, Waterperry Opera returns with Peter and The Wolf, and music, art and drama projects on the theme of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons take place with local schools for this year’s Aspire! community and participation programme.All that, plus 10 young artist concerts and Charles Court Opera’s latest G&S production The Sorcerer, not to mention the Festival Fireworks which are FREE to all at Beacon Park on Friday 12 July, in collaboration with Fuse/Lichfield Arts.Full details from the festival website.
2024-04-18 09:15:00
Engaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar
Leeds Lieder 2024 - Joseph Middleton, James Newby - Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book ClubMatyas Seiber, John Jacob Niles, Thomas Traill, Joseph Suder, Percy Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Ravel: Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques, Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen; James Newby, Joseph Middleton; Leeds Lieder & Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book Club17 April 2024A new collaboration sees Leeds Lieder at a cool café/bar with an engaging and beautifully sung programme of songs inspired by folk-musicA former fuel storage tank is not the usual venue for a song recital, but Hyde Park Book Club is no usual venue and last night's recital there (17 April 2024) by baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton was a collaboration between Leeds Lieder (of which Middleton is the artistic director) and Through the Noise, the organisation that promotes its concerts, noisenights, via a distinctive crowdfunding model. The recital was all of folk-inspired music, from Matyas […]
2024-04-06 11:15:00
Bizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances
Bizet: Carmen, Act One - Blaise Malaba, Aighul Akhmetshina - Royal Opera House (Photo: ROH/Camilla Greenwell)Bizet: Carmen; Aigul Akhmetshina, Piortr Beczala, Olga Kulchynska, Kostas Smoriginas, director: Damiano Michieletto, conductor: Antonello Manacorda; Royal OperaReviewed 5 April 2024The new production pairs finely musical performances with a sense of gritty realism and a reluctance to add any local colour and movement.For all its iconic status and abundance of good tunes, Bizet's Carmen remains something of a challenge for large opera companies. Until relatively recently matters of edition and style were unquestioning, the grand opera version with Ernest Guiraud's recitatives and a setting that was 'traditional 19th-century Spain'. Since then, things have got more complex with a return to using the opera comique version and a wish to avoid the lazy stage-Spanish stereo-types. It is worth emphasising that the Bizet's opera has little Spanish input, composer, librettists and original author were all French men. And whilst […]
2024-04-03 11:10:00
Theo ElwesThe 18th-century style splendour of Sledmere House in Yorkshire is the setting for a Spring season of concerts showcasing young artists. Rising Stars at Sledmere features three concerts in April and May, followed by two concerts in the autumn and a special Christmas celebration. The concerts take place in the Library, one of the 18th century rooms recreated in the early years of the 20th century following a disastrous fire. The season opens on 27 April with 21-year-old British/American violinist, Theo Elwes and Japanese pianist Kumi Matsuo in an Eastern European-inspired programme with music by Bartok, Bloch, and Mieczysław Weinberg. Theo Elwes is the great, great grandson of the tenor Gervase Elwes (1866-1921) in whose memory the Help Musicians fund (formerly Musicians’ Benevolent Fund) was originally established following his premature death in a railroad accident in 1921.On 12 May, The Avalon Trio, comprising three young British players, Benji Lock (piano), Louis Solon (violin) and […]
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