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English soprano
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2023-12-22 00:00:00
Vaughan Williams Christmas Music, Christmas Baroque, Orchestral Christmas & On Chritmas Night (Richard Hickox, Marc Taddei, Charles Gerhardt & Andrew Nethsingha)
[…] Ride [3'03]10 Émile Waldteufel: The Skaters' Waltz [7'36]11 (arr. Peter Knight): A Christmas Suite ('Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly', 'We Three Kings of Orient are' and 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen') [8'09]London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles GerhardtSony AK48591 [recording date not given; CD issued 1991][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue, engineer and producer- no information provided. No booklet provided even with the CD release.On Christmas Night:01 John Rutter: What sweeter music02 Trad.: Noël nouvelet03 James Burton: Balulalow04 William Mathias: A babe is born, op.5505 Harold Darke: In the bleak mid-winter06 Trad.: Ding! dong! merrily on high07 Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the apple tree08 Trad.: I saw three ships09 Richard Rodney Bennett: Out of your sleep10 Peter Warlock: Benedicamus Domino11 John Joubert: There is no rose12 Trad.: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day13 Matthew Martin: Adam lay ybounden14 Matheo Flecha the Elder: Riu, […]
2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
[…] Sing! a choral arrangement of the ‘Toccata’ from Charles Marie Widor’s Organ Symphony No.5 in F major. All Cambridge men, really, as Dunnett studied at Clare College, Grote at King’s College and, of course, Willcocks enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the Choir of King's College, directing it from 1957 to 1974. An enlightening and, indeed, popular concert, the programme included a couple of well-loved choral works with Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and John Rutter’s Gloria. Featuring Irish-born harpist Anneke Hodnett as well as young William Lambert solo treble from Norwich Cathedral Choir, Chichester Psalms was commissioned by Walter Hussey, Dean of Chichester Cathedral, for the Southern Cathedrals Festival held in Chichester in 1965. Hussey wrote to Bernstein to say that ‘many of us would be delighted if there was a hint of West Side Story in the music’. Well, the opening movement was, indeed, lively and jazz oriented, […]
2023-11-21 09:06:00
Fifth edition of ORA Singers' Young Composers' Scheme and new Graduate Composers' Showcase
ORA Singers at the Cutty Sark (Photo: Nick Rutter)2019 saw ORA Singers introduce its Young Composers' Scheme, providing free mentoring in choral composition to students from non fee-paying schools across the UK. Now as the Young Composers' Scheme returns for its fifth edition, ORA Singers is introducing a new complementary Graduate Composers' Showcase. The Young Composers' Scheme has so far successfully mentored 140 students, and has partnered with the Three Choirs Festival and Scala Radio. This season the fifth edition welcomes another 50 students from non fee-paying schools across the UK, to receive free coaching in choral composition with professional composers. 10 Young Composers will have one-to-one mentoring with professional composers, who will develop their skills whilst helping them write a new choral piece. The Young Composers will join ORA for a workshop, where they will have their sketches sung and receive feedback from ORA and a guest composer. The scheme ends […]
2023-11-15 09:19:00
From sound art in Middlesbrough & 2000 children in the Royal Albert Hall to Brett Dean's Cello Concerto & Brian Irvine's operas: The Ivors Classical Awards celebrating today's classical music
[…] BBC Radio 3's Tom Service and Hannah Peel. The other supporter is the PRS of Music and Julian Nott, chair of the PRS Members Council commented that they exists to try to ensure that composers can write music and not spend their evenings driving Ubers!Awards were presented for eight categories, Community and Participation Composition, Small Chamber Composition, Chamber Ensemble Composition, Stage Work, Sound Art, Large Ensemble Composition, Choral Composition, and Orchestral Composition. In addition, John Rutter received an Academy Fellowship, Tansy Davies was honoured for Outstanding Works Collection whilst Matthew Herbert received the Innovation Award.Six composers received awards for the first time including Matthew Herbert (Innovation Award.) and Olivia Louvel (Best Sound Art). Dobrinka Tabakova won her first time award for Swarm Fanfares for youth orchestra in the Community and Participation Composition category. The work was commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society and premiered by the Hallé Youth Orchestra. Josephine […]
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