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2024-03-15 09:42:00
Almost an expressionist nightmare: Janáček's Jenůfa at ENO with Jennifer Davis in the title role
[…] her company debut, brought vivid tone and irrepressible enthusiasm to Jano. Darren Jeffery was the mill foreman, frequently an observer to the action in Act One, creating a feeling of his underlying contempt for his employers. Freddie Tong made self-regarding and rather unpleasant Mayor, with Madeleine Shaw channelling Hyacinth Bucket as his wife. Isabelle Peters sang and danced engagingly as Barena. Segomotso Masego Shupinyaneng was all self-regarding charm and simpering as their daughter, Karolka. Morag Boyle and Claire Pendleton completed the cast with brilliant cameos as a neighbour and a villager.The chorus was on terrific form (belying the alarums and excursions that have been going on behind the scenes), not only singing up a storm but creating a whole world of vivid and disturbing characters. Everything in Act One seemed to have a threat of violence, to be a whisker away from real danger and then in Act Three the […]
2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
[…] Godfrey Encores:01 Ferdinand Hérold: Zampa - Overture [8'44]02 Byron Brooke (reconstructed R Corp): Gee Whizz! [4'09]03 Percy Whitlock: Carillon for Organ and Orchestra * [5'08]04 Ethel Smyth: The Boatswain's Mate - Overture [6'46]05 Howard Flynn: Clatter of the Clogs. A Novelty Fox-Trot [3'02]06 Landon Ronald: In an Eastern Garden. No.2 from 'The Garden of Allah' [4'38]07 Armstrong Gibbs (ed. M Pilkington): The Betrothal Ballet Music, op.34 10'40]08 Montague Birch: Dance of the Nymphs [3'56]09 Ina Boyle: The Magic Harp ^ [9'16]10 Ludwig Pleier: Karlsbad's Dolls' Dance. Characteristic Piece [3'35]11 Rutland Boughton: The Immortal Hour. Love Duet for Orchestra [6'06]12 Montague Birch: Intermezzo (Pizzicati) [4'33]13 Cecil White (reconstructed M Riley): A Sierra Melody [3'36]Malcolm Riley- organ*, Eluned Pierce- harp^, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ronald CorpDutton Epoch CDLX7276 [recorded July 2011; issued 2011][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, UKRecording engineer: Dexter Newman; Producer: […]
2023-11-27 09:06:00
A remarkable sense of energy & engagement: Wagner's Die Walküre from the London Opera Company at St John's Smith Square
Wagner's Die Walküre - The London Opera CompanyWagner's Die Walküre; Ben Thapa, Philippa Boyle, Simon Wilding, Simon Thorpe, Harriet Williams, Cara McHardy, conductor Peter Selwyn; the London Opera Company at St John's Smith SquareReviewed 25 November 2023A full scale performance of Wagner's opera projected with remarkable energy, commitment and engagement by a strong cast with an orchestra mixing professionals, students and amateurs. A remarkable achievementThe London Opera Company was formed in 2020 by singers to give opportunities to performers who had lost work in the pandemic. Starting from relatively small beginnings, with chamber versions of Wagner's operas, the company founded its own orchestra last year and presented a full version of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at St John's Smith Square. The company returned to St John's for Wagner's Die Walküre this year and plans to perform Wagner's Siegfried next year.The London Opera Company performed Wagner's Die Walküre at St John's Smith Square on Saturday 25 November 2023. Peter Selwyn conducted […]
2023-09-29 07:02:00
The chance to deep dive into Dvořák's quartets: Michael Trainor of the Piatti Quartet introduces their new residency at Kings Place
[…] opportunity to get to intimately know one of London's best concert halls is a big attraction, Hall One at Kings Place. It has a brilliant acoustic, with a natural resonance that makes string instruments sing and radiate warmth. A new commission from young composer Anna Appleby and one of our most popular commissions with audiences, a 2022 work by Charlotte Harding, will add a compelling dimension to the concerts along with works by Ina Boyle, Anton Webern and Franz Schubert. All will start at 6:45pm and last no more than an hour. Full details can be found at the Kings Place website. The Piatti Quartet is named after Alfredo Piatti, a 19th Century virtuoso cellist who was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music (the alma mater of the founders of the quartet) and also a major exponent of chamber music and contemporary music of his time [Piatti's own operatic […]
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