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2024-01-22 09:15:00
UK-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, offers a preview of Northern Opera Group’s 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival which includes a brand-new opera on Sherlock Holmes.
[…] these important and culturally fired-up northern towns. Recent productions have included César Cui’s Little Red Riding Hood (2022) and David Parry’s Pied Piper of Hamelin (2024). Piazzolla: Maria de Buenos Aires - Leeds Opera Festival 2023 (Photo: Rhian Hughes)And a major new commission this year sees the world’s first-ever opera adaptation surrounding the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. Entitled Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of Four, the opera’s directed by David Ward, written by award-winning composer Lliam Paterson (also responsible for the libretto) and conducted by Ellie Slorach with stage design by Caitlin Mawhinney and lighting by Charly Dunford. Audiences can, therefore, well expect a musical journey through the iconic tale bringing a fresh perspective to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic work. The outstanding bass Edward Hawkins leads a strong cast in the title-role working alongside tenor David Horton as Watson while soprano Ellen Mawhinney is cast in the role of Mary and […]
2023-11-21 07:29:00
Marius Neset: Geyser - Marius Neset, London Sinfonietta (Photo: Sisi Burn)Marius Neset: Geyser; Marius Neset, London Sinfonietta, Geoffrey Paterson; EFG London Jazz Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall Reviewed by Florence Anna Maunders (17 November 2023)One enormous sweep of wildly contrasting sounds, the Norwegian saxophonist and London Sinfonietta return to their third large-scale collaboration, premiered at last year's BBC PromsThe remarkable musicians of the London Sinfonietta are no strangers to collaborative work, and Geyser marks the third large-scale piece that Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset has written for them. Following the critical and artistic successes of Snowmelt (2015) and Viaduct (2019) this composition was even more ambitious, taking the form of an extended eight movement, 75 minute work for jazz quintet and chamber orchestra. As part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, Neset was joined at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 17 November 2023 by the London Sinfonietta, Conor Chaplin (bass), Ivo Neame (piano), Anton […]
2023-06-09 00:00:00
Strauss, Delage, Elgar, Joubert & Chausson: Songs and Elgar: Chamber Works (Felicity Lott, Neeme Jarvi, Armin Jordan, et al
[…] Aria Music in 1995, reissued by Virgin Classics in 2008][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Radio-France Studios, Paris, FranceRecording engineer: Pierre Lavoix; Producer: Michel GarcinEdward Elgar: Elgar in Sussex01 - 03 Piano Quintet in A minor, op.84 * [37:56]04 - 09 Seven Songs ^ [17'51]10 - 12 Three Movements for Pianoforte Trio ~ [18'28]Felicity Lott- soprano and Joseph Middleton- piano^; The Schubert Ensemble [Simon Blendis and Ursula Gough- violins, Douglas Paterson- viola, Jane Salmon- cello, William Howard- piano]*; Gould Piano Trio [Lucy Gould- violin, Alice Neary- cello, Benjamin Frith- piano]~Champs Hill Records CHRCD027 [recorded November 2001*, November 2010^ and October 2010~; issued 2011][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, UKRecording engineers and Producers: Alexander Van Ingen^, Chris Craker* and Andrew Mellor~Download from Mega.
2023-05-22 17:18:00
Queen Elizabeth HallVivaldi: The Four Seasons, op.8 Grisey: Vortex temporumMichael Morpurgo (narrator)Clio Gould, Oliver Wilson (violins)Oliver Wilson (viola)Clare O’Connell (cello)Jonas Nordberg (archlute)David Gordon (harpsichord)Katherine Tinker (chamber organ)Karen Jones (flutes)Mark van de Wiel (clarinets)Paul Silverthorne (viola)Tim Gill (cello)Daniel Piero (violin, director)Andrew Zolinsky (piano)Geoffrey Paterson (conductor) All music unfolds in time. Here, two musical works, separated by the greater part of three centuries, in turn explored time’s unfolding. It has become such a cliché to moan about the ubiquity of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons that perhaps now it is time, as it were, to welcome it back to the fold. (In any case, apart from telephonic descents into hell punctuated by reminders of the value of our call and eagerness of Corporation X to answer us, we can readily avoid it. I have for years.) It is certainly time to do so if treated to so engaging a performance as this from Daniel […]
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