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2022-05-10 09:15:25
Ryan Wigglesworth makes his debut as chief conductor with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, launching its 2022/23 season
[…] how they did this or that. The flip side applies, too. By conducting the works of great composers, I’m learning how to be a better composer myself. I’ve never really separated the two." Wigglesworth will also be conducting the UK premiere of Hans Abrahamsen’s Vers le silence, marking the start of Abrahamsen’s role as the orchestra’s new Composer-in-Association. And in the same concert, Wigglesworth conducts his own symphonic adaptation of Wagner's Götterdämmerung with soprano Katherine Broderick. He will also be directing the premieres of two BBC commissions, Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Cello Concerto (with Laura van der Heijden as soloist) and a new work from Jonathan Woolgar. Other premieres during the season include a new Abel Selaocoe work, whilst principal guest conductor, Ilan Volkov, will give the UK premieres of Øyvind Torvund’s Exotica album and Stefan Prins’ under_current with Yaron Deutsch (electric guitar). Volkov also curates the orchestra's new music festival, Tectonics […]
2022-02-08 09:19:24
Celebrating the BBC orchestras and the BBC Singers
[…] Beecham conducting the Halle Orchestra) and Conor Mitchell's Democracy Dances Howard Goodall conducts the BBC Singers in RVW's Mass in G minor plus music by Judith Weir, Melissa Dunphy, Roxanna Panufnik, Philip Cooke, Errollyn Wallen and the European premiere of Goodall's Unconditional Love Ryan Wigglesworth celebrates his forthcoming role with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra by conducting them in a programme of Strauss and Berg, plus his own Five Waltzes with soprano Katherine Broderick and viola player Scott Dickinson Ryan Wigglesworth takes over as chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in September 2022. He returns to Glasgow in May 2022 to conduct the orchestra in a programme of Mozart (directed from the piano) and Jörg Widmann (the orchestra's artist in residence). His debut with the orchestra as chief conductor will be on 22 September 2022.Full details from the BBC website.
2022-01-12 08:49:46
Panache, intensity and vivid story-telling from Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn in Modest Musorgsky: Unorthodox music at Wigmore Hall
[…] out of her and Christopher Glynn's exploration of Musorgsky's output was quite how many strong women there were in his songs (in contrast to his operas), and of course in the Russian tradition Death can be female, and indeed Musorgsky referred to his song-cycle Songs and Dances of Death as her. There is another thing about Musorgsky's songs, even the ones best known in orchestral guise, and that is their sense of imagination, boundary-crossing freedom. Katherine Broderick and Sergey Rybin's 2016 disc of Musorgsky songs on Stone Records [see my review] made a strong case for the links between Musorgsky's song output and French impressionism, notably Debussy. It is worth re-iterating what we know, as the timeline is intriguing. The young Debussy spent the summers of 1880, 1881 and 1882 touring Europe with Tchaikovsky's patron Nadezhda von Meck, acting as teacher and pianist for her daughters. Musorgsky's cycle Sunless […]
2021-08-21 08:27:27
'Caro nome' from a balloon and laughing with her voice: I chat to soprano Hila Fahima about performing Gilda and Zerbinetta, along with her discovery of lesser known Donizetti operas
[…] in Massenet's Werther at the Vienna State Opera when Hila sang Sophie. Hila describes Garanca as the most amazing artist, very professional and making art at a very high level. Hila loved standing on stage with her. After Gilda in Bregenz, Hila has her stage debut in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and then she returns to Zerbinetta in performances of Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos in Montpelier in April 2022 (with Katherine Broderick as Ariadne), with more exciting things to come. See her website for full details. Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog Chamber music for the King: François Couperin's Concerts royaux from American flautist Stephen Schultz and friends - record review Technicolour dreams: […]
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