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Brazilian songwriter and music professor (1795-1865)
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2024-03-04 08:22:00
The Afghan Youth OrchestraOn Thursday 7 March 2024, the Afghan Youth Orchestra makes its debut at the Southbank Centre at the start of its first UK tour, Breaking the Silence. The orchestra was originally formed in 2010, but took its present form in 2022 after the orchestra was forced into exile due to the return of the Taliban to power. Now based in Portugal, the orchestra consists of 47 male and female musicians aged between 14 and 20 and from diverse backgrounds, playing on traditional Afghan and Western classical music, played on both Afghan and Western instruments under the direction of the conductor, Tiago da Silva.The concert on 7 March is followed by further appearances in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. There is also a CrowdFunder to help support the expenses of the tour.The Afghan Youth Orchestra's tour is being presented by SAMA Arts, one of the UK’s oldest arts organisations in the genre […]
2024-02-02 11:48:00
From forgotten arias in a pasticcio based on Balzac's Sarrasine to a forgotten instrument: Göttingen International Handel Festival announces the 2024 programme under George Petrou
George Petrou (Photo: Alciro Theodoro da Silva)The Göttingen International Handel Festival dates right back to the 1920s and though styles have changed the festival has always been notable for new ideas and new thinking about 18th century music. This year's festival under artistic director George Petrou has just been announced. Running from 9 to 20 May 2024 under the title Kaleidescope, the festival features not only music by Handel and his contemporaries, but modern reflections too, as Petrou wants the programme to bridge the gap between the 18th and 21st centuries, revealing the gap between Handel's music and the pressing issues of our time.The opera staging this year focuses not on one of Handel's operas but on arias discarded by the composer, usually for dramaturgical reasons. George Petrou has fashioned a pasticcio using these arias with a plot based on Balzac's novella, Sarrasine about the sculptor Sarrasine's love for a singer, Zambinella, regarding her […]
2023-12-21 00:00:00
The Annual Christmas Post 2023 [27 CDs]
[…] Nativity of Jesus ChristKammerorchester BaselRiccardo Minasi - directionRecorded December 2016 (live)Label: Sony 19075868452Download 1fichier pixel workuploadGottfried August Homilius (1715-1785)Advent & Christmas CantatasHanna Herfurtner (soprano), Franziska Gottwald (contralto),Georg Poplutz (tenor), Mauro Borgiani (bass)Kölner Akademie/Michael Alexander WillensRecorded: 2019Label: CPO 555 278-2Download 1fichier gofile workuploadFrancois-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829)La NativitéChristmas OratorioEx Tempore, Les AgrémentsMannheimer HofkapelleFlorian Heyerick - directionRecorded March 2016 & December 2019Label: CPO 777 869-2Download mega 1fichier pixelJosé Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767-1830)Missa pastoril para Noite de NatalEnsemble TuricumLuiz Alves da Silva - directionRecorded October 1999Label: K617131Download mega 1fichier pixelRalph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)An Oxford ChristmasChoir of the Royal Hospital ChelseaJoshua Ryan - organWilliam Vann - directionRecorded October 2020 & June 2021Label: Albion Records ALBCD050Download 1fichier pixel workuploadMirabile Mysterium - Choral music for Christmasfrom different countries & erasSächsisches VokalensembleMatthias Jung - directionRecorded: 2018Label: CPO 555 318-2Download 1fichier gofile workuploadVerbum caro factum est - A Christmas GreetingDaquin: NoëlsVocal music from several centuriesin settings by Masato SuzukiBach Collegium […]
2023-12-01 09:48:00
To support newly graduated northern based musicians and composers at the very start of their musical careers: first Camerata 360° Ruth Sutton Fellows announced
The inaugural Camerata 360° Ruth Sutton Fellowship - James Weatherley-Buss, Marcus Silva, Georgina MacDonell Finlayson, Sean Morrison, Ben Norris(Photo: Manchester Camerata /Jay Cipriani)The Manchester Camerata has announced the five recipients of its inaugural Camerata 360° Ruth Sutton Fellowship. Created with the support of The Ruth Sutton Trust for Music, five northern based fellows each receive a paid, year long bespoke training programme - commencing now - in which they will gain vital experience of all aspects of a musical career working with the Manchester Camerata. The Camerata 360° Ruth Sutton Fellowship was launched specifically to support newly graduated northern based musicians and composers at the very start of their musical careersEach Fellow will spend the next 12 months immersed in the working life of Manchester Camerata - from vital performance opportunities, community work engagement with schools, care home and music cafes, to marketing, finance, management, and leadership experience. They will each work […]
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