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2024-04-10 06:36:00
[…] role as an associate artist at The Riverfront in Newport. The performance features baritone Byron Jackson, dance and choreography from Arnold Matsena with additional vocals from Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, plus musicians from Sinfonia Cymru including Simmy Singh (who wrote the music for interbeing).interbeing explores humanity's bond with nature and features music by Simmy Singh, a co-founder of the Manchester Collective and Sinfonia Cymru's creative associate, and libretto and visuals by multi-disciplinary artist ASHA, with soprano Anna Dennis.Coming up Music Theatre Wales will be presenting Bwystfilod Aflan, a new monodrama by Conor Mitchell and Jac Ifan Moore looking at the reaction to Prosser Rhys’s crown-winning poem ATGOF (Memory) at the 1924 Eisteddfod. The poem is extensively about sexual experience and includes a short section on gay experience which caused controversy at the time. The opera is a co-commission with the Eisteddfod and Aberystwyth Music Centre and produced in association with Sinfonia Cymru to be performed […]
2024-04-09 08:14:00
Gŵyl Machynlleth Festival
The mid-Wales market town of Machynlleth plays host to artists from classical, Welsh and world music each August for the Machynlleth Festival / Gŵyl Machynlleth which, this year, runs from 18 to 25 August 2024 under artistic directors Julius Drake and Dennis Jones, with concerts taking place in The Tabernacle, a former chapel that is now an intimate and acoustically wonderful concert venue.Welsh artists performing at this year's festival include Clwyd-born pianist Llyr Williams in an all-Chopin recital, Welsh male voice choir Cantorion Gogledd Cymru and the closing concert will feature soprano Natalya Romaniw and harpist Alis Huws. The Three Soloists concert features tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas, soprano Meinir Wyn Roberts and baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen with pianist Eirian Owen.Other highlights include Schubert’s Trout Quintet with Tom Poster and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Poulenc’s opera La Voix Humaine with soprano Mercedes Gancedo and Festival Co-Artistic Director, Julius Drake, Marmen Quartet and John Myerscough in Haydn, Ravel and Schubert’s quintet, genre-defying […]
2024-04-01 08:07:00
Moving intimacy and sense of communication: Bach's St Matthew Passion from the Academy of Ancient Music, music director Laurence Cummings and just eight singers
Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion - Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings at Barbican Hall (Photo: Academy of Ancient Music)Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion; Anna Dennis, Tim Mead, Nicholas Mulroy, George Humphreys, Mhairi Lawson, Magid El-Bushra, Paul Hopwood, Rodney Earl Clarke, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; Barbican HallReviewed 29 March 2024 (Good Friday)Just eight soloists and 28 instrumentalists create a sense of intimacy yet profound communication, filling the hall in a way that made the whole a moving experience.Some of Johann Sebastian Bach's masterworks from the 1730s and 1740s, such as the Mass in B minor and the Art of Fugue, not only have no apparent performance tradition from Bach's time but also leave us uncertain as to the exact performance forces that Bach envisaged. But an earlier masterwork, the St Matthew Passion, has a clear performance tradition from Bach's time, premiered in 1727, Bach performed it again […]
2024-03-29 00:00:00
Music from the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
[…] Musica Profana (1997) [12'25)05 - 06 Symphony No.6 (2000) [24'32]David Geringas- cello *; Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo JärviBIS CD-1360 [recorded October 2001; issued 2003[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Estonia Concert Hall, TallinnRecording engineer and Producer: Maido MaadikErkki-Sven Tüür (Latvian)- Flux:01 - 02 Symphony No.3 (1997) [27'42]03 Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2003) * [23'06]04 Lighthouse for strings (1997) [12'44]David Geringas- cello *; Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell DaviesECM 465 134-2 [recorded August 1998; issued 1999][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recording venue: ORF Studio, Vienna, AustriaRecording engineer: Anton Reiniger; Producer: Manfred EicherThe following recording was recently posted at Symphonyshare by friend sneffels and is re-posted here with his kind permission.Kaljo Raid and Eduard Tubin (Estonian):01 - 05 Kaljo Raid: Stockholm Symphony (No.2) (1946) [36'29]06 Eduard Tubin (arr. Kaljo Raid): Elegy for Strings [2'33]07 Eduard Tubin […]
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