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2022-01-27 16:13:56
Inspired by the Sistine Chapel: Peter Phillips & The Tallis Scholars explore some of the riches written for the Papal choir
The choir loft of the Sistine Chapel in the early 17th century (1848 copy by Ingres of a painting by Agostino Tassi) Inspired by the Sistine Chapel; Palestrina, Morales, Festa, Carpentras, Allegri, Josquin; The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips; Cadogan Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 26 January 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Music by Palestrina and his contemporaries showing off the richness of the treasures performed by the Sistine Chapel ChoirA whole host of musicians worked for the Sistine Chapel Choir, leaving a wealth of music that was written specifically for the choir. Often not well known, because the manuscripts were jealously guarded by the Popes, this is a repertoire usually known simply for a few highlights. At Cadogan Hall on Wednesday 26 January 2021, the Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips presented Inspired by the Sistine Chapel, a programme of music written for the Sistine Chapel […]
2020-10-24 09:16:19
A recent photo of Vic Hoyland at home in Yorkshire The composer Vic Hoyland was due to celebrate his 75th birthday this year with a concert at Kings Place, and my interview with him was organised to coincide with the concert. This latter, alas, has had to be postponed but this year is still Vic's 75th birthday and there is plenty to celebrate and talk about, so we went ahead with the interview. Vic was born in Yorkshire and studied at Hull and York Universities, going on to become Haywood Fellow at the University of Birmingham where he became Professor in Composition until his retirement in 2011. His music has been much influenced by European composers such as Luciano Berio and Franco Donatoni. As a boy, Vic wanted to be a painter, he loved drawing and in fact still does. A cousin of his, John Hoyland was a […]
2017-07-13 20:44:20
Dramatic ARC
One trend of summer 2017 must be Brooklyn does baroque! Following LoftOpera’s muddled Stabat Mater of Pergolesi, Wednesday brought Christopher Alden’s grimly dark and violent take on Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo at National Sawdust. Neither of these works was written to be staged but the latter production worked infinitely better both dramatically and musically. Having written extensively here about Aci when it was presented several years ago in concert at Alice Tully Hall, I will just mention that the three-character serenata derives from a story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in which the cyclops Polyphemus develops a passion for the water nymph Galatea. Shunned by her he kills her paramour—the shepherd Acis—who in death is transformed into a flowing river. Set by a number of composers, the story must have struck a particularly strong chord with Handel who a decade after Aci’s premiere in Italy composed a second completely different […]
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