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British composer, conductor, and arranger
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2020-10-30 09:14:17
Half-lights and misty streetscapes: Melissa Parmenter's Messapica
[…] extended, and occasionally move away from the sense of Mozartian Alberti-bass and Philip Glass noodling with an evocative line above. She has, however, a real ability to capture an atmosphere. Those on the disc are by turns evocative and melancholy; this is not an Italy of bright colours and vibrant noise, but one of half-lights and misty streetscapes. A graduate of Music from Durham University, Melissa Parmenter began her collaboration with British film director Michael Winterbottom in 2003, first working on In This World and then producing his films for over 10 years, including The Face of an Angel with Kate Beckinsale, The Wedding Guest with Dev Patel, and most recently Greed for Sony & Film4, starring Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher & David Mitchell. Parmenter was nominated as a film producer for a BAFTA TV Award, she has also been nominated for a European Film Award. Having had her music […]
2018-10-19 14:57:39
A visit to Italy at the Oxford Lieder Festival
Reynaldo Hahn, painting by Lucie Lambert, 1907. An Italian Songbook Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Tosti, Hahn; Alessandro Fisher, Gary Matthewman; Oxford Lieder Festival at the Sheldonian Theatre Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 17 October 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A delightfully engaging lunchtime in Italy with the young Anglo-Italian tenor Alessandro FisherThis year's Oxford Lieder Festival celebrates The Grand Tour - A European Journey in Song. Besides the more obvious stops, there are lesser known ones and I went along on Wednesday 17 October to visit Estonia [of which more in my review of the rush-hour and evening concerts] and Italy. The lunch-time recital at the Sheldonian Theatre was a programme of songs by Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Tosti, along with Reynaldo Hahn's Venezia performed by tenor Alessandro Fisher and pianist Gary Matthewman. Before the recital there was a talk at the Ashmolean Museum by Michael Winterbottom, curator […]
2017-06-23 18:22:00
[…] in the presence of King George V and numerous dignitaries, and the choir of Westminster Abbey. The Worcester Herald, ever loyal to Elgar, reported "It is hoped that on the unveiling every choir in London - both Church and secular - will, take part in the ceremony". Things didn't quite turn out that way. This new SOMM recording is a world premiere. Elgar's original was transcribed for military band by Frank Winterbottom, Professor of Instrumentation at the Royal School for Military Music, who had also made arrangements for Elgar's The Crown of India and Seviliana Elgar later made his own version of the hybrid for full orchestra and chorus, which was first heard in the Royal Albert Hall on 7th May, 1921. Thunderous drum rolls mark the introduction to With Proud Thanksgiving, "Solemn the drums thrill" runs the text, taken from Lawrence Binyon's […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-05-23 14:30:54
No classical names in anti-Brexit culture list
[…] and Artistic Director, The Roundhouse Martha Freud, Artist Martin Parr, Photographer/curator Mary Swan, Artistic Director and Chief Executive, Proteus Mat Whitecross, Director Matthew Baker, Head of acquisitions, HanWay Films Matthew Hale, Artist Matthew Herbert, Musician Meike Ziervogel, Publisher at Peirene Press Michael Craig-Martin, Artist Michael Frayn, Writer Michael Mack, Publisher Michael Morpurgo, Author Michael Morris and James Lingwood, Co-Directors, Artangel Michael Winterbottom, Director Mike Leigh OBE, Writer and director Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin, Co-founders of Belarus Free Theatre Nicholas Hytner, Director Nick Dear, Playwright Nick Ormerod, Artistic Director, Cheek by Jowl Nicolai Schumann, Founding Director, Alice’s Pig Nicolas Brown, Producer Nicolas Kent, Director/producer; ex- Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre Nicole Farhi, Sculptor Nigel Carrington*, Vice-Chancellor, University of the Arts London Nik Powell, Producer […]
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