Franziska Cornet News
German singer, opera singer and music educator (1808-1870)
- coloratura soprano
- Germany
- opera singer, music teacher, actor
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2024-04-15 08:08:00
Energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev, Julius Eastman and more
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Jessica CottisCatalyst: Coleridge-Taylor, Julius Eastman, Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev; National Youth Brass Band and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Tess Jackson, Jessica Cottis; Royal Festival HallReviewed 14 April 2024From Julius Eastman's creative provocation in the Clore Ballroom to the stupendous combined brass band and orchestra in Higgins new piece, an astonishing day of music making full of energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making Under the catch-all title of Catalyst, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain arrived at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 14 April 2024 and filled the building with music. During the afternoon, there was a side-by-side performance with local school children of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade in the Clore Ballroom, as part of the orchestra's outreach programmes. Then before the main concert members of the main concert, members of the orchestra gathered in the Clore Ballroom for […]
2022-11-25 05:00:00
Music for Brass Band by Gregson, Lloyd, McCabe et al (Besses o' th' Barn, Black Dyke & Grimethorpe Bands)
[…] Lloyd: Diversions on a Bass Theme [11'43]Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band conducted by Major Peter Parkes and Garry Cutt*Chandos CHAN4553 [recorded October & November 1998; issued 1999][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Morley Town Hall, West Yorkshire, UKRecording engineer: Jonathan Cooper; Producer: Ralph CouzensConcertos for Brass01 - 03 Edward Gregson: Concerto for Tuba and Brass Band [17'55]04 - 06 Edward Gregson: Concerto for French Horn and Brass Band [17'06]07 Gordon Langford: Rhapsody for Cornet and Brass Band [13'17]John Fletcher- tuba; Ifor James- French horn; James Watson- Cornet; Besses o' th' Barn Band conducted by Roy NewsomeChandos CHAN4526 [recorded July 1980; issued 1982][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Whitworth Hall, Manchester, UKRecording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian CouzensDownload from Mega.
2022-08-09 09:07:00
Prom 30: Gavin Higgins' Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra with the Tredegar Band and BBC NOW
Prom 30, Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra - The Tredegar Band, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan BancroftBBC Proms (Photo BBC/Mark Allan)Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; The Tredegar Band, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft; BBC Proms at the Royal Albert HallReviewed 8 August 2022 (★★★★½)From Higgins' remarkable use of colour and timbre in his new work for brass band and orchestra to the classical underpinnings of Berlioz' Romantic symphony in a fine prom with Welsh forces.For the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' final BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 8 August 2022, Ryan Bancroft conducted them in two large-scale works. First came the world premiere of Gavin Higgins' Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra when the orchestra was joined by the Tredegar Band, then came Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique.Brass bands have not been a regular feature […]
2022-02-20 13:41:14
Royal Festival Hall, LondonIván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra triumphed in this pair of concerts focusing on the works of Stravinsky, with virtuosic soloists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Nicolas Namoradze Stravinsky formed the focus of Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Festival Hall visit, a pair of remarkable concerts exploring his output early and late. Both were structured around one of the ballets written for Diaghilev – Petrushka in the first concert, The Rite of Spring the next evening – preceded in each case by a work for soloist and orchestra (the Violin Concerto, the Capriccio for piano and orchestra) and a neoclassical piece from the 1930s or 40s (Jeu de Cartes, the Concerto in D for strings). The Diaghilev ballets were both magnificently done, Petrushka in particular: this was one of the finest performances I’ve heard of it in London for some time. The central narrative, tragic […]
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