Ezra Jenkinson News
English composer
- violin
- United Kingdom
- composer, violinist
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2024-04-21
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2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] its own. He still misses Evensong, playing the psalms and canticles, the music of Stanford and Howells. For James, the repertoire of music for Evensong is extraordinary. But living in London with that sense of rubbing shoulders with other cultural offerings made him want to focus on other areas, to explore and uncover other music. He has now had major concerto and solo works written for him by Nico Muhly, Gabriella Smith, Tristan Perich, Tom Jenkinson/Squarepusher, Martin Creed, David Chalmin, David Lang, Richard Reed Parry, Bryce Dessner, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Darkstar, and others.Most of his commissions have been through composers who are friends, and it is rare for him to get involved in a project where the composer does not already know his work. But writing for the organ can be somewhat daunting for non-organists; it works best if the composer is not too specific, they need to have an instinctive […]
2024-03-06 09:14:00
Ian Venables' intense settings of John Clare at the centre of the Dante Quartet's Conway Hall concert alongside Gurney and Elgar
Brinkwells in the Surrey Hill, where Elgar wrote his QuartetBeethoven, Ian Venables, Gurney, Elgar; Dante Quartet, Brian Thorsett; Conway HallReviewed 3 March 2024Venables' quartet of intense John Clare settings for the relatively unusual combination of tenor and quartet at the heart of this concert that often felt like conversation amongst friends On Sunday 3 March 2024, the Dante Quartet was joined by tenor Brian Thorsett for a concert at Conway Hall that featured Beethoven's Quartet in F, Op. 135, Ian Venables' 1997 song-cycle, Invite to Eternity, four songs by Ivor Gurney in arrangements for tenor and quartet by Ian Venables, and Elgar's Quartet in E minor, Op. 38. Before the concert, I gave a talk introducing the works by Venables, Gurney and Elgar, all of whom have West Country links. The Dante Quartet was founded in 1995, and currently features Zoe Beyers, Ian Watson, Carol Ella, and Richard Jenkinson.Beethoven's Quartet in […]
2022-05-13 19:07:50
Crafted during the period when the 48-year-old Stradivari was experimenting with his "Long Pattern" violins, this 1692 cello was once the concert instrument of Mats Lidström and Katherine Jenkinson. The cello had passed through several dealers and firms throughout its lifetime, including Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and Hart & Son in 1850; W.E. Hill & Sons in […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-04-03 08:08:39
A new recording of Handel's first version of Messiah (Dublin 1742) with a largely German speaking cast
[…] David Willcocks, the choir of Kings College, Cambridge and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields give us an evocation of this on EMI Classics, with the soprano solos sung by a group of boys from the choir, plus soloists James Bowman, Robert Tear, Benjamin Luxon, whilst Edward Higginbottom on Naxos recreates this 1751 version exactly, with the choir of New College, Oxford, the Academy of Ancient Music and solosts Henry Jenkinson, Otta Jones, Robert Brooks, Iestyn Davies, Toby Spence, Eamonn Dougan 1754: Christopher Hogwood's classic recording on Oiseau Lyre of the Foundling Hospital version (based on Handel's original parts donated to the Foundling Hospital and still in the Foundling Museum), with the the choir of Christ Church Cathedral and the Academy of Ancient Music and soloists Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliott, David Thomas, this version is also the one recorded by Paul […]
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