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2024-03-28 07:41:00
Steven DevineMusic@Malling's Bach + series presents five concerts on 26 and 27 April 2024 in historic venues in and around West Malling, Kent, including St.Mary’s Church, West Malling, Pilsdon Barn (part of the historic Malling Abbey) and All Saints’ Church, Tudeley with its unique set of Marc Chagall windows. The concerts all feature Bach's music with contemporary pieces alongside, some works specifically created as companion works.Chamber Domaine, conductor Thomas Kemp (artistic director of Music@Malling) perform Bach's Brandenburg Concertos III and VI alongside companion works by Deborah Pritchard and Stevie Wishart originally commissioned by Music@Malling in 2022 as part of Six Brandenburgs: Six Commissions. Richard Harwood, principal cello of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, performs Bach’s Cello Suites I-III alongside contemporary works by Deborah Pritchard, Stevie Wishart, John Woolrich and Judith Weir. Harpsichordist Steven Devine performs Bach's Goldberg Variations in All Saints’ Church, Tudeley.Running alongside the concerts are a series of workshops in […]
2024-01-18 17:21:37
Ruby Hughes/Manchester CollectiveBISAn intriguing collection of music includes songs by Vaughan Williams, John Tavener, Errollyn Wallen and Deborah Pritchard This is an intriguing, eclectic programme from the soprano
2023-12-15 08:34:00
A remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza bring a lovely sense of dialogue to their celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon
[…] configured and re-configured from theorbo accompanied solos right through to full-concerted. Apart from a couple of works, Rossi's vocal pieces were performed unaccompanied.We began with Rossi's Baruchu et Adonai (Blessed are you, Lord), three voices singing off-stage in a lively piece full of movement. Thomas Campion's As by the streames of Babilon took us into a different tradition, the English sacred song written for domestic use. Essentially a sober lute song, performed by tenor Nick Pritchard and lutenist Kristiina Watt, Pritchard was beautifully expressive and combined fine diction with a lovely sense of line. Afterwards we heard one of Rossi's instrumental pieces, Sinfonia 9 with two violins interweaving in a melancholy manner, the result rather touching.Rossi's setting of Psalm 123, Shir Hama'alot used all eight singers, creating a rather madrigalian feel, whilst the use of smaller groups of voices brought a sense of contrast. Though the texture was enlivened with […]
2023-11-21 07:49:00
Songs for Our Times: songs by Stuart MacRae & Bernard Hughes based on texts by Chinwe D. John
Stuart MacRae: Kingdoms, Bernard Hughes: Metropolis; Isabelle Haile, Nick Pritchard, Christopher Glynn; Divine ArtReviewed 20 November 2023A project initiated by poet Chinwe D. John, this disc presents two satisfyingly different contemporary settings of her work in intelligent performancesThis remarkable project features two song cycles, Stuart MacRae's Kingdoms and Bernard Hughes' Metropolis, both featuring the words of Nigerian-American poet (and practising medical doctor) Chinwe D. John. This disc, Songs for Our Times on the Divine Art label, includes MacRae's cycle performed pianist Christopher Glynn and tenor Nick Pritchard, and Hughes' cycle performed by Glynn and soprano Isabelle Haile.The project is very much Chinwe D John's own. Feeling passionately about the need for classical music to expand its base, and also seeing the need to respond to the challenges facing UK-based musicians during the 2020, John was responsible for involving both composers and performers in creating the project. As a poet writing texts for songs […]
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