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2024-04-22 09:09:00
The Celestial Stranger: new song cycle inspired by Thomas Traherne's recently discovered manuscript
Joana Carneiro & Gavan RingThomas Traherne was a Herefordshire clergyman who died in 1674 aged 38. Known now as a poet to equal his great contemporary religious writers John Donne, George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, his works had been substantially lost and are only recently being rediscovered. His Centuries of Meditation was only rediscovered in 1898, other volumes turned up but the biggest cache of his work was found only as recently as 1997 at Lambeth Palace Library where they were catalogued as anonymous. Amongst these works is a 42-chapter treatise entitled The Kingdom of God which includes The Celestial Stranger, where Traherne imagines a visitor from a distant universe visiting earth and being held in wonder by its riches and beauty.Musically, Traherne is perhaps best known as the poet for Gerald Finzi's Dies Natalis which draws on three Traherne poems plus text from Centuries of Meditation.Traherne's The Celestial Stranger is now the inspiration for a song-cycle by […]
2024-04-20 08:34:00
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
[…] Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court - concert reviewA lovely evocation of stillness and calm: Alastair Penman's Quietude on his Meadowbank Music label - record reviewBizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances - opera reviewSpell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells - interviewWest Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season - interviewA wondrous snapshot of British singing: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance - record reviewHome
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 […]
2024-04-16 06:36:00
The sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns
[…] Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court - concert reviewA lovely evocation of stillness and calm: Alastair Penman's Quietude on his Meadowbank Music label - record reviewBizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances - opera reviewSpell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells - interviewWest Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season - interviewA wondrous snapshot of British singing: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance - record reviewLike no other: Rachmaninoff's Vespers in a remarkable new recording arranged for men's voices - record reviewMoving intimacy and sense of communication: Bach's St Matthew Passion from the Academy of Ancient Music, music director Laurence Cummings and just eight singers - concert reviewTo boldly go: Daniel Pioro and the Marian Consort in music for violin and voices by Tom Coult, Nick Martin and Bach - concert reviewHome
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