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Sitting in a concert hall is not a great place to have a musical experience: Frederick Waxman introduces Our Mother, Figure's dramatic staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
This is my body Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri from Figure at the Swiss Church in 2023The ensemble Figure, co-artistic directors Frederick Waxman and Philip Barrett, has had some considerable success with its stagings at Opera Holland Park of Handel's Serse (in 2022) and Shakespeare/Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream (in 2023), but last year the company also created a remarkable immersive staging Buxtehude's sacred cantata sequence Membra Jesu Nostri [see my review].From 20 to 23 March 2024 they will be presenting Our Mother at Stone Nest. This will be a dramatised staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with additional music by Alex Mills. Directed by Sophie Daneman, the staging will be performed by women of multiple generations, Dame Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce and Katie MacDonald.When I chatted to Frederick Waxman about the production he commented that whilst everyone knows the first 20 seconds or so of Pergolesi's music, they wanted to […]
2023-10-07 04:00:00
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)Arias from Lotario, Partenope, Ezio, Sosarme, Arianna, Alcina,Berenice & Deidamia; Overtures to Lotario, Atalanta & Deidamia Emma Kirkby-SopranoRoy Goodman, The Brandenburg Consort(Period Instruments)Hyperion CDA67128 (2000) [Flac & Scans]
2023-09-24 04:00:00
Handel: Opera Arias and Overtures - 1 (Roy Goodman, The Brandenburg Consort)
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)Arias from Almira, Rodrigo, Rinaldo, Amadigi di Gaula, Giulio Cesere in Egitto, Tamerlano, Rodelinda & ScipioneOvertures from Almira, Tamerlano & ScipioneEmma Kirkby, SopranoRoy Goodman, The Brandenburg Consort(Period Instruments) Hyperion CDA66860 (1996)[Flac & Scans]
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